About my work Placement & my roles!

My job role within my work placement were

·      Light set up

·      Ambient lighting

·      The setting on camera

·      Ticking the names and righting notes for legal reasons

·      Sign off by manager of place

·      Entertaining children

·      Taking a threw photographs of children and adults

·      Helping with white balance

·      Taking down equipment

·       Working with then photographer

·      Watching how different photographs work

Jobs roles and experience

 The placement has helped with my confidence at places, while working on the camera. I really enjoyed the whole experience as it gave me great practice at places and the routine you do. I also gained skills whilst working with the client, this being the managers of the nursery’s or the photography its self. I think this experience will be extremely helpful for me in the future, as I have gained skills for setting up and shooting in different areas outside and in side. Furthermore I have gained further editing skills and.  I did find the work very interesting, especially seeing martin and Ian working with different equipment and cameras to what I use, and also while you do the position and technical side of things.  During the shoot, I was able to see just how focused you need to be during the shoot to get concentrating on getting the best shot quickly, due to the child losing concentration and getting upset. I think the placement did inspire me as doing portrait but not so much with children but, what I have learnt can be used in to any portraiture as I did take photographs of adults (staff) and they were just as hard as the children.

The work placement did meet my expectations as I knew the process of setting up for each of the shoots would be quite easy as I have good light set up knowledge but I did learn how to do lighting with the natural light and also artificial lighting of the room. Also I learnt how to not use a studio set up but using two windows as my natural lighting.

So the conclusion is I feel that the placement was a great opportunity to gain confidence in my work. I now have knowledge on setting up for a live event and the confidence that I have the ability to photograph at a higher level than it actually is, as I gave what I knew about studio and portrait photograph input to all three photographers I worked with. I loved the interaction with both the children and the adults and the fact I learnt about legal requirements.

 It was great experience working with Jeremy martin and Ian, martin and Ian I learnt a lot from them as they have worked for different companies and also in different styled portraiture photography. I leant that just a simple one or two light set up with the right background can create get lighting for portrait photography. I also learnt more about how to promote myself and get into groups of photographers that would lead you on to more jobs and experience. Martin inspired me as he has done different styles of work in portraiture. He has such vast knowledge and years experience with portraiture photography; he was ready if there was a sudden problem with any of the equipment. I also enjoyed working with in a team; well as two, I feel that they each gave me the opportunity to take photographs of both adults and the children when he thought and knew I wanted to.

I felt that working with child also adults in some case you got to have a lot patients and confidents, and also to be able to muiltly task, meaning being able to take an images check settings and entertain and get their attention of the person. I found the setting up and then the clearing up the most tedious part of the work experience just because of how long it takes to do. And have it all pack and safely put away.

Health and safety of the light set ups is fairly easy and always keeping an out of moved lighting and people. On the set up you also have to remember to knowing what you have brought with doing a tick list if necessary, also a back up camera and battery, as I leant on the shoot with martin that no matter how long you have had a battery new or not and fully charge it can go down really quickly if use only a little to. I also learnt that when shooting for nurseries and portraiture quick shoots, the clients tend to ask for the format of the images to be JPEG fine. Also they said when shooting also shot a shoot down from what it shoot be to get a slightly darker image which would be changed at head office.

I think the thing I learnt the most, which I didn’t know much about as taking photographs of different races and skin tones, and the amount of effect it can on the light and the overall image itself.

I didn’t get to see this because it goes to Imago’s main office of people to be edited, refine and choose the 3-5 images that get used, and depending what the images were taken or commissioned for, they would be put on to the internet where the families could see them and buy them from it, or sent to the client to publish or used for what ever they are using them for. Head office would edit them right done picking the best images, also removing any blemishes of spots out and maybe some times colour correction, and also more depending on what the client has said or the parents themselves.

My next steps that I am planning to take with my work experience is to work again on a portrait event or shoot, whether its on location or in a studio or using studio set up, is to see if I will still enjoy myself even if I don’t have such a passion for the type of portrait but also to injure into adult portrait and location shoots.  Focusing my efforts on another aspect of digital photography I enjoy.