Sourcing Photographers

I sent out a casting call on the website 'Purple Port' to find photographers to work with as I initially wanted to work on location and places such as beaches and woods. The photographers that replied didn't have the best portfolios and were more studio based creating profile shots, which wasn't what I was after. I wanted someone that I could challenge and that could contribute ideas to the shoot. I found one photographer to work with but his reliability was not that great, whilst sourcing a model he sent me a message to say that he no longer wanted to work with me and then blocked me! I didn't have any patience for time wasters like him as it was hard to put a team together anyway. I learnt from this that I need to get a team together many months in advance so that everyone is available. Unfortunately the photographer unreliability was out of my control, this was a catalyst for me to shoot the ideas myself.  In the end I shot the images myself because I knew what I wanted to achieve. The perfectionist in me decided that other people might not understand what I was trying to do so it was better to create my idea myself. 

I decided to shoot in the park and in a studio. Luckily I had experience in both so I knew what I was doing and I knew what settings to use. I think that if I was more prepared with the photography I could have created a lot more location scenes. I also used a standard 50mm lens instead of a bigger one when shooting the texture squeal. I think I should have used a lens with more depth so that I could have picked up more texture that would be invisible to the naked eye. This would have added more interesting content to my website. Having a professional photographer would have helped here because they would have known what was best to use and could have contributed an aspect that I would not have been aware of. Not having a photographer was definitely a downside to the project and may have affected the time that I spent on the main focus which was the makeup. However I am glad with how my images came out and think they are good compositions and have been edited well.