Second shoot

As I planned to, I went out again last night to shoot, but this time with more control. I once again returned to Stanley park and this time found a location that would suit me better. Again it was in the middle of a group of trees and included the sky in the backdrop, but this time I used the headlights from a car as my light source, and with careful positioning I was able to have some of the trees obscuring the direct glare from the light, making it softer and more hazy.

Below is how I had my shot set up, just without my model yet in place.



The contact sheet below shows the images from the shoot, and in them they show a variety of positions in which I placed my model. It was a difficult choice in where to place him, as I wanted to show someone creeping toward the camera, and to make people feel unsettled and anxious as who it was and what they were doing.


The two images below, I feel work the best from the shoot and I am happy with the results. With the first I chose to have the model on the left of the trees and have him hunched down looking towards to camera. However I think it looks a little too obvious for what I wanted to show and the one below it works better.



This image I think looks particularly good, and I have edited it in photoshop to give it a slight blue tint, making it seem colder and more mysterious. I feel that the position of my model is much better here as he is slightly hunched and creeping towards the viewer as they would see it also the shadow being cast from him works well as it beams right towards the camera.