Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Feedback over my final work - brand and editorial images

I have to admit that today I had my first drop-in feedback session with Sharon and I was pretty terified. Not only that my blog wasn't ready yet, but I have never ever presented my images or moodboards or ideas to her before which I know it is a shame, but I should keep this in mind and plan my time better next time and manage my stuff so I can make it to tutorials as well because they are really helpful.
I was extremely relieved to see that Sharon didn't ask me to reshoot everything two days prior to the deadline, because I thought that my editorial images weren't very good. I didn't have time to edit them before the tutorial and I have had only edited one. But thanks God, Sharon liked the overall pictures and make-up for my editorial word photoshoot. But I can't say the same about the editing. She suggested that I could remove the hair that was in the background and crop the picture and maybe rise the saturation a little bit. She also helped me choose which one of my favourite photos should be the side photo as I couldn't decide. Furthermore, I have presented her the moodboard too as I wasn't really sure about it and she helped me improve it and gave me a few tips such as using more nature pictures, pics with galaxies, the phytoplankton (which btw I didn't know about until now), jellyfish, the body on electric and others. Her feedback over my editorial photoshoot helped me A LOT and now I feel really bad that I didn't go earlier as my pictures and work could have been so much better. Next time I know what to do: always go to her tutorials, even if I didn't do as much as I should.
Regarding the editorial pictures, she seemed to like it a lot. I was very happy to see that she was smiling looking to my pictures as she is a very inspirational person to me. She also helped me pick the best photo of the two I had already edited and choosed, and explained me that the hand pose in the picture I liked more was too unnatural and it just didn't work. I wasn't sure about it either so she helped me clarify everything. Also, she gave me some editing feedback about some hairs that my model had on her hand as they didn't look in place and I've quite missed them when editing (maybe because I edited them a loooot?!). Another thing I felt relieved to know about was that it's not mandatory to use a product in my final brand picture. I just didn't like how they were cropped because you could still see some white on the borders of the product and my background was black so it was very obvious that it is cropped and looked very bad. So using just the brand name instead was the perfect option.
Everything went very well and she responded to all my questions and inspired me even more to do a better moodboard and better editing. I kinda wish I had more time to go to another tutorial because I feel like I have missed to much for not going but next year everything will be different!

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