Test Shoot

Location: Garden

I opted for a less busy background so I could focus on capturing the movement:












The first few were taken at around 6pm and were too bright so I waited an hour to try again:















It ended up getting dark quite quickly with my last photos being the darkest taken at around 8 30pm. I then knew that I needed to be ready to take images at between 7pm-7:30pm.


I edited my few best ones using Adobe Lightroom:

For each image I decreased the saturation and shadows, increased the clarity and highlights as well as decreasing the white tones.











Although the shoot didn't go very well   and my images ended up quite dark, I thought my edited images came out well. I was pleased with the contrast and the movement I managed to capture. I did feel however that the movement was a little too blurry/out of focus as you couldn't see the facial expressions as well as I had hoped.

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