9 | Goals | Initial Goals

My main aim this semester is to leave as a confident, technically able photographer. I am doing more test shoots this semester than ever, because I am tackling more advanced lighting techniques/ interesting techniques to add that extra element to my photography. I want to leave as a photographer, and not a student who studied photography at CIT.

I am in the process of developing my own book about Light. I always wanted to do this and when I saw it all together in Recher's book Light Architecure I realised I want to have my own lighting techniques as my reference. At the moment I have a lighting book where I record all the elements to my shots (models, props, fashion, location, etc), my planned lighting and my actual lighting. I also record what worked and what didn't in dot points after the shoot and if there is anything I would change, and a thumbnail image of the final photograph.

I have been saving photographs which I admire in terms of light and analysing how the effect was achieved. (I.e. what type of light was used, where the light is coming from, etc). I am also writing down all the different lighting effects I can think of now for my book, which I want to photograph. On the LHS I will have the setup, and on the RHS I will have the final shot (Raw, basic edits, final edits) along with notes on lighting. This will take me probably until next year to finalise. I quite liked the finish look of Nathan's food book so I will probably print with Snapfish. (That was the company wasn't it Nath?)