Practice Shoot

In my practice shoot, I was focusing on getting the correct lighting to the shot of Mia from Pulp Fiction. In the practise shoot I tested out the softbox to create the look. I placed the softbox on the right in front of the subject to create the shadows on the left hand side of the face.

Demonstrated in this shot.

However, the shadows created on the subjects face are too dark unlike the ones from the original shot. So, I added in a white reflector board and placed it opposite the light on the left hand side of the subject to create a softer shadow on the subjects face.

This changed to shadows on the subjects left hand side of their face, so they are not as harsh. However, the way the subject is placed in the shot is completely off. Too much of the sofa is in the shot, in the original shot the back of the sofa takes up about 2/3s of the shot while in this the back of sofa takes up pretty much the whole shot. Also in the original shot the subjects face is more central, her right eyebrow is touching the top of the shot and the right eye is almost in line with the sofa when her head is tilted. I must make sure that these specifics are in place in my final shot.

Editing:

I took the best shot I got from the practice shoot and started adjusting it on photoshop to see what needed to be done to make it look like the film still. As the film still has a slight green tint to it I used colour balance to create a similar look. Also, I edited the brightness and contrast to darken the image, as my photo was a lot brighter than the film still. With the exposure I lowered it to make the image darker , but then kept the brightness for the face creating a similar skin tone to the original shot.

Then I added in a second layer of the original shot and aligned my shot, so the eyes were at the same angle and so was the rest of the shot. This showed me that by shot was too short and I will need to shoot wider in my final shot, therefore I can always crop it to the right size. It also showed me that my subject wasn’t in the correct angle.