Were back with the worlds biggest acronym, or is it an abbreviation? The subject of this weeks LFTS2YF (Learnings from the Shutter to your face) is a shoot I did just under a fortnight ago.
11 days after the shoot I am finally finished the edit, relief!!!!
Time Taken: Prep - 20mins
Shoot: Approx 2 hours
Edit: Approx 20+ hours over a couple of weeks
Really glad with how they all came out and I hope you enjoy them. Feedback/critique is appreciated and I try and learn from it.
I used pretty much the same colour theme across all the images and I think it worked pretty well.
The shoot didn’t go great on my part, I was using a new flashgun and still learning the ropes with it which didn’t help.
I think there are two things I have taken away from the shoot:
1: Know your kit and how it will respond to the changes you make to settings etc. If you are ontop of this and it comes naturally you can focus your energy on composing your shots and arranging the models etc.
2: Keep the energy up and keep chatting with your models, they will feed off your energy to if you are having a shit day (or in my case preoccupied with your new flash you can’t quite use yet) it can make the models uncomfortable and will show in the images. Luckily for me Glen and Megan are really god friends and allot of fun, as such the quality of these pics is far more a credit to them than it is to me.
The regular breakdown-
The good - God I’m awesome
- Don’t know if there is much to go in here, I wasn’t the happiest at the shoot as I was really preoccupied with my kit
- Composition was pretty good and I managed to keep on top of it
The Bad - Things I could have managed better
- Depth of field, I used it well in some shots but too well if you know what I mean? Some things I wanted just out of focus ended up waaaay out of focus on account of too small an f stop (aka too wide an aperture)
- Did an ok job of listening to Megan and Glen but could have done better. Many shots they organised themselves in coz I was to busy screwing with my gear :( Thanks guys
The Ugly - Where I completely dropped the ball
- I should have been more on top of my new flash and perhaps shouldn’t have taken it given that I wasn’t fully across it. But it was so shiny I had to try it out!!!!
- Talking with the models - I should have been keeping the energy up to make it easier for them but I didn’t do a great job. Credit to them that the final pics look so good.
Below are the photos from the shoot. Please click to full view them in all their sexy glory.
- Dan 
I love the park bench shot. I have no constructive feedback ‘cos I’m braindead and should actually be doing work but I couldn’t help myself - I needed to tell you that I love the park bench shot. Colour, composition, everything. And yay to the great models.
Back to work now…
You are FABULOUS!!!!
Fun times! I didn’t realise how cheese-fest we look in some of them - sorry! Probably not the look you were going for!
Pity we started to run out of light a bit on some of the ones with the bike, but I think I like the dark background…. Yourself?
P.S. Sorry that I possess more than the recommended number of chins in some of the pics; I’m just really talented at smooshing… stuff and things.
Thanks Pip, it is my favourite as well! The perfect photo then
that’s the kind of feedback i can handle no problem 
Thanks Megan, nonsense you sexy fox and Gleno! I’m gonna steal him! So glad you like them.