Day 89 Thursday 26th April 2012 Fashion Constructed Image Set-build day 4 Shoot day.

Thursday 26th April 2012 Fashion Constructed Image Set-build day 4 Shoot day.

Getting in for just gone 08:30 after meeting up with Murray (who'd helped on day one of set build, and wanted to see how the shoot went) and then Jenna (who was shooting our shoot for her project!).  I met up with Tom Williams on the way in, Sascha and Amie were in the room first followed by us and then by a later Ian Wisbey.

Our female model Esthphanie Standen  arrived on time followed by Maria Leao (Hair and Make-up) and along with Tom soon set about make-up and then hair. We'd asked for our male model Ollie Gapper to arrive a tad later as his make-up would take little time to complete. After hair and make-up the models dressed and we set about testing the lights on them (as opposed to the stand-ins we'd used during lighting tests).
As expected a few lighting issues arose especially due to the darker hair colour of our female model. This latter issue prompted some experimentation with lights and advice before JS added an extra Dedo light to the goalpost aimed directly at the models hair. The rest of the morning was spent testing and correcting lights, followed by pose, posture and gaze before we broke for lunch. We discussed our post lunch plan and planned to shoot basically until we felt we had numerous good images. This approach included slight changes in position, pose etc as well as testing slight alterations of props and of course we had to maintain the set, rest the models and lights and deal with focus issues and a mac that decided to freeze up at one point as well! Colin and Steve Pocock checked our progress as did JS. After shooting on and off all afternoon, we made one final set change (removing the perspex) before final shots and wrapping up after another quick check of image focus on the captures.
After the models had left we did some basic set clean up and JS kindly backed up the images. The day had been a long one and intense as expected but the team worked really well together and I'm pleased and proud to say I was a member of team one!