revenge

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I could choose between street photography or a series of four photos with a subject, so my choice was the four photos, and the subject was revenge. It's a girl seeing her boyfriend cheating on her with her bestfriend, and how she kills her bestfriend by poisoning her. It's a dark story, which was why I chose to do it in black and white (this one as well).

I got something wrong when reading the tasks we had this week though, most likely cause I was stressed out about everything, so I took these pictures in studio, since I didn't take the fifties photos in the studio. I chose to take the photos in a simple two set lightning (picture below), so that we wouldn't get too many shadows everywhere, even though that could've worked out with this scenario.

picture via google

Taking these photos, I used an unnatural lighting and flash. My camera was set on M, and my ISO switched between 100 and 200, so it was pretty low (the grainy quality on the photos is because I edited them that way), which I would recommend whether it's dark or not in the room. Change your shutter speed to something low or your blender to a low number. I had my shutter speed on something like 1/80, and unless you want a sort of blurry picture, you shouldn't had your shutter speed that much lower if you're holding the camera with your own hands. If you use a tripod and it's dark, you capture lighting way better with a slower/lower shutter speed. My blender was on f/26. If I'd had a lower number, the picture would've gotten too light, but I usually have my blender on the lowest number when taking pictures using natural lighting, which also makes the background in pictures more blurry, in addition to letting more lightning in.

Oh and I may add, here are my sketches for this task (they are horrible but at least you'll see what I had in mind, and it's not that different from the result).