For today’s shoot, I had just gotten out of the shower and looked myself in the steamy mirror and wondered how I could make really staged photos out of my daily routine- so I started with the very basics and set up my camera in my bathroom, with my tripod propped up on my toilet, you got to do what you got to do!
I then very quickly ran into the problem that, since my bathroom in my accommodation is tiny, the stream remained in the air for a while, causing the lens to stay in constant state of being steamed up, so I let the seam settle a little before I properly started shooting. I love taking portraits with my 55-135mm lens as I feel like this is a great way to capture deeper contrasts between the foreground and backgrounds of the image, while also being able to capture a much more detailed image than my 18-55mm kit lens, which is the other other lens I have here.
For this, I shot from a trigger connected from my camera on the tripod, aimed into a mirror before resting on me. This meant I could take the portraits from an angle, and capture them from a vantage point that makes it look as though I don’t know the camera is there, as it allows for me to look like I’m just naturally looking in the mirror getting ready.
Overall, I was much less pleased with this shoot as I feel it was lack conceptual depth and the images themselves aren’t very strong. Because of this, I would like to revisit this concept later in a more developed shoot.
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