SHOOTING DAY 7 & DAY 6&7 EDIT & TIMESTAMP

SHOOTING DAY 7
Forgot to close the window so it’s noisy… I may try closing the bathroom door and turn off the heater next time. And I may want to set up the camera higher to get a better view of the hair in the sink. Didn’t realise the camera had turned off after 30min, so I continued for another 10min…
DAY 6 EDIT
DAY 7 EDIT

Couldn’t find a free timestamp application so I have to add it manually in Photoshop… And I just realised I had been exporting photos at 240 ppi instead of 300 ppi from lightroom all the time…

HAIR Shooting Day 1

Spent one day setting up the new camera… I was reading that there’s no function to add date to photos in this camera. I suddenly thought that I could add date and time to the photos so that it would be more obvious, more like a diary or documentation. Tried an application to retrieve shooting time of photos and add date and time for multiple photos, but it’s not free…

Then I finally tried to record the performance. Spent about an hour trying to find a position for the camera in the small bathroom. I wanted my head and the sink in the screen at the same time. The camera stopped in the middle because it’s too hot…

While watching it, I realised that I should focus on the hair in the sink instead of my head, otherwise the falling hair was not obvious enough. And maybe I don’t have to include my whole head, maybe just a part to show the action, otherwise it just takes up too much space in the video. It can also be a bit lighter. And if I want to present this project by a collection of photos and videos, maybe I can also regard this recording as moving images.

While watching the process, I found the view looked fine here:

I put the camera on a paper roll to get this view. I’ll try next time to see if I can make it higher to get a fuller view of the sink.

Also took some photos:

Tired different angles. I prefer the middle one. It looks better and it’s most similar to the angle of my view in real life.
I found it hard to photograph hair in some places because it’s just hard to notice in photos. And I’m not really able to photograph some single hair on me because of the angle.
When I was shooting the left photo, I suddenly thought that I could use the light of my phone. And the right photo looks much better and the hair is more obvious.
It’s hard to control the angel because of the shadows. I think a flashlight and macro lens probably can help.