Shoot 1.

After looking into competitions that I could enter, I found one that really inspired me to go on a shoot. The competition was to take photographs of people wearing sunglasses and I thought that this was something that I wanted to do - for the competition and to take some interesting images.

These are all of the images that I took that work for this subject, as some of them ended up too dark or too bright due to the wrong settings being used:




Here are a few of my favourite images from the shoot:








I chose these as my favourite images because I think they all work aesthetically and, due to the weather being really warm and sunny, the lighting worked really well in my favour. I really love how the sunglasses reflect the surroundings in each image, and I tried to frame it so that the reflection looked interesting. I especially love the images in which the model has been partially covered with leaves as this creates an interesting frame. I also really love the last image on this post because of how the leaves have created really interesting shadows on the model's face, covering parts of the face and casting the light in different places.


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