Shooting in the Style (Concept & Planning)

CUVDIG401A – Experiment with techniques to enhance digital image
Topic 15 & 16 – Concept and Planning

Homework for Class/Blog

Concept

-     Concepts as mental representations, where concepts are entities that exist in the brain.

-     Concepts as abilities, where concepts are abilities peculiar to cognitive agents.

-     Concepts as abstract objects, where objects are the constituents of propositions that mediate between thought, language, and referents.

Planning
Also called forethought is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal.

Planning involves the creation and maintenance of a plan. As such, planning is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration of it with other plans; that is, it combines forecasting of developments with the preparation of scenarios of how to react to them.

Requirements:
You are to come up with a concept for a “photographic event”, be it exhibition or shoot.
Now that you have the idea what will you need to do for it to come into being, i.e. plan in brief things like timing, place, participation, audience and any other things that may be needed.


Photographic Event: Wedding
Date: 1st May 2014
Timing and location: 
  Groom's home: 8am to 9am at Randwick
  Bride's home: 9:30 to 10:30am at Coogee
  Ceremony: 11:30am to 12:30pm at Happy Park, Coogee
  Lunch reception: 1pm to 4pm at McDonald's Coogee
  Newlywed's photo shoot: 5pm to 6:30pm at Coogee Beach
Participation: Bride, Groom, Bridal Party, Wedding Guests, Celebrant, Venue contact, Photographer's Assistant
Gear:
  Canon 5d Mark II body
  Canon 5d Mark III body
  Canon 24-70mm f2.8 L+ lens hood
  Canon 70-200mm f2.8 L + lens hood
  Canon 50mm f1.2 L + lens hood
  3x Canon 580EX II speedlight
  Pocket Wizards
  6 Canon batteries for body, fully charged
  40 AA batteries for flashes, full charged
  3x 32GB memory cards
  8x 8GB memory cards
  lens cleaning kit
  Remote trigger
  2x tripods
  Reflector
Emergency Kit:
  Safety pins
  Bandaids
  Umbrella
  Rain covers for gear
  Poncho
Lighting:
  Combination of natural light and flash to be used.
Essential Shots:

  Refer to "Essential Shots - Wedding.doc"  

Concept Shots:

1. Groom behind bride with outstretched hands in (classic) Titanic (movie) pose while standing on a surfboard in the water at Coogee beach. 
Need a surfboard
Off camera flash
Use wide lens, get up close to the bride and groom, have them leer into the lens looking onwards to the distance. They will be facing the right so will be shot from the side pointed at them to the left when facing them.
Use a large aperture to create a dramatic sky, and use flash to create rim lighting on the couple, and enough fill flash to light the couple from the front. 

2. Bride and groom made of sand
Props to dress up a sandcastle to look like a bride and groom (made of sand). 
Have the sandcastle positioned in front of the water. 
Photography front on, water in the background, from a low angle shooting straight to make the sand couple appear larger than they would be in reality. 
Extra shots include having the couple standing behind it, or the groom to be hugging the girl sand bride, and vice versa, and perhaps the two couples in the same shots in different poses too. 

3. Silhouette of couple at sunset
- Bride head veil to be held up by assistant to flow to the edge of framing of the image (shot at 50mm about 3 meters away from couple). 
- Couple to face each other and lean in and kiss (cropped in shot)
 - Brides head rested on groom's shoulders (wide shot)
 - Sunset in May ends earlier so need to work fast.

*** Note, this exercise is fictitious and is here to satisfy current course requirements only.