Digipack (CD)- Photo Shoot.

When shooting for the album cover on the call sheet I allowed myself time so if I came up with a different idea i would be able to create the set and shoot it. 
In my powerpoints this photo shoot is call "Good/Nature" in case it causes confusion.

Here's my call sheet; 

When the model arrived I requested she arrived with no make-up on so I'd be able to determine how well her skin could take make up and apply it myself, I was aware that more make up needs to be worn for the camera to pick up. 

To get the desired look, I took the hair down which is naturally curly, created volume in the roots and put hairspray in it to hold, I wanted the hair to appear natural. For the make-up I evened out the skin tone and blemishes with a concealer and foundation. Then for the shine I applied a powder liberally across her face. Then on her cheeks I applied a rosy pink colour, for her eyes mascara was applied, then a light whitey/pink colour was applied to frame the eyes. I tidied the eyebrows up a bit by plucking and combing them through and held them in place with a dab of hairspray on the eyebrow comb. 

This was the first set, which was based around the research I did with the girl lying in the rose petals, but I wanted to use leaves and a less sexual body positioning as this is the good girl, natural shoot.

This was the view from the top of the ladder looking down.

Set all set up and ready to go.

Showing the wires and places of lighting.

Here are a couple of the shots we got from this set up; 

I soon realised I wouldn't be able to get the shot I wanted because I wasn't fair enough over her and the angle didn't flatter the model. So I began to try different views and positioning the camera in different ways.

I moved the model into a sitting up pose hoping this would help, although the shot was getting better I just wasn't satisfied.

The further the camera became face in the better the model looked, but with this the set became useless.

I decided I wanted a shot like this face on with a fitting background.

I created a headband for the model out of a dead branch, as she get herself warm again I went outside and found a different set and used the natural lighting and the artificial lighting as much to my advantage as possible. 

Here's set 2, with the model been freshened up with make-up, given a headband and I made her hair bigger with more hairspray.

This was the new set up, outside it was 0 degrees so I set up each shot with the model in a dressing gown to keep warm then as soon as I was ready she removed the dressing gown and took the shots we needed.

The shots we got from this set were much better, here is an over view of the shots. I tried mainly straight on poses but varying how far away she was from the camera e.g. medium shot or close up shot. Although I did get a couple side shots which were really good and with editing I knew I could use them for the album cover. With .all the photo's below I decided to pick 6 then carry out a focus group in which they'd be narrowed down to 2 photo's i would edit both with the writing of the bands name and title of the album, create them and let focus groups decided which one they think they'd see in a shop such as HMV.

I picked this photo for the focus group as I felt the picture showed innocence and the lighting is working well in this photo giving her face a subtle glow, if picked from the focus group I would enhance this glow further showing youth.

Although the lighting on this photo is amazing,  felt the face wasn't quite how I wanted it to be.

 The mystery and subtle lighting in this one made more put it forward into the focus group.

The slight smile i felt worked well.

This photo is too far away for the album cover, want the photos to be more up close and striking. Furthermore the background makes it lose some of the magic for me.

This one for the focus group gives the judges some diversity by it being at a side, this photo for me with the right editing could be ideal for the album cover.

The lighting here shows real innocence and naturalness, with the leaves in the hair she looks as one with nature a more up close shot to add to diversity. Also the model had a slight smile which I think adds to the innocence of the photo.This photo will be in the focus group. 

This photo is slightly further away, this will be one of the focus group photo's.

With the smile this photo doesn't have the look I imagined for the front cover.

Once again the smile, and the leaf in her hand is too posed for the image I want.