Construction Post 3: Production - Photo Shoots

After having finished the shoot for the music video, it was now time for us to shoot photos for use on the album cover and website. We had three days during the week to get through the shots we needed, but we ended up not needing the last day.

25th November

At first the lighting caused an issue with the way the photos were turning out, but after modifications to the camera's settings the photos turned out fine. Everything went to plan, and we were able to take the photos we wanted.

Before adjusting the light settings

After the adjustments

26th November

On the Thursday, we encountered some technical difficulties. There was an issue with the flash due to one of the plugs having broken, so we were not able to get as much light as we wanted in the shots. The backgrounds were the areas that most obviously looked darker than the photos from the day before, but this didn't really matter since we would be editing out the backgrounds in Photoshop later. This day was also used to get photos that included both Mario and Eddie which would be used for the website.

There was significantly darker lighting on this shoot

We wanted these photos to more properly convey their personalities, so we had a range of different shots including some that were more fun, and some where they seemed more serious and cool-looking. We also decided to get some shots that just featured Eddie, in case we needed to use them at some point. At the end of the day we had decided that the past two days had gone so well that we did not need to use the third day for shooting.