Flare photoshoot-Production

One I had completed my recce of potential locations for me to do my photo shoot in, it was time to begin my shoot for the magazine. Including me, there was three of us whom worked together to create a good shoot for me to be proud of, as i wanted this shoot to happen whilst the sun was beginning to set we left at about 6;30 PM for the sun to begin setting, to ensure we would not miss this i googled the day before shooting what time the sun would be setting and planned my shoot around that. Getting to our location was no trouble nor was the issue of weather thanks to it being to beginning of British summer time therefore the weather was reliable, thanks to my previous planning i knew the exact location i wanted to shoot in as well as my previously made moodboard which allowed the model to understand how to stand and positioning to stand with our flares. The sun setting was a huge concern of mine as it can often be unpredictable, sometimes the lighting can be really effective through the trees if the weather is bright enough and others it is too dull and you are unable to see much, luckily for me the sun was bright enough for it to be seen therefore helping the whole photography process along alot more as natural lighting was my only form of lighting for this shoot.

As the shoot went on be began to find a hack of how to shoot with these unpredictable flares, as soon as they were positioned and let off the model must get into postion immediately for us to begin photographing otherwise the flare would get less powerful before running out and so after a while we soon found how to get into the habit of doing so, i found whilst shooting that there was more natural lighting coming from the North of us than above or to either side therefore i made sure to direct my model to face that way so that when I shot that the camera could pick up the light, which it did and i am overall really happy with how my images turned out. When we let off the first flare to begin shooting i thought that lowering the shutter speed of the camera maybe really effective but what i found was that the opposite occurred, turning up my shutter speed so that it was quicker turned out to work best for these images as i found that in speeding it up you could see the puffs of cloud more vividly and with more texture almost, due to this i continued to use this method as i wanted to maintain this look throughout all of my images. I also found that thanks to my mood board i knew the style of images i wanted to take and so there was no experimentation with style of angle was needing when snapping shots, you will see that there is a certain style i was going for and i believe i achieved this. I believe that if i was to conduct this shoot again i would potentially add in more varieties of colour when it comes to the flares themselves but apart from that there is nothing else i change due to how happy i was after the shoot, everything ran smoothly and we did not have any troubles. Here you will find some of my unedited images taken from the shoot;