Setting.

After considering the setting for my photo shoot in depth I've decided to have the shoot take place on a park bench; I feel the setting links with my idea better of portraying relationships and people in their natural states within each relationship, and the natural lighting will be easier to work with, rather than having to manipulate it if I had the shoot take place on a sofa. I just feel the setting will look less fake if in a park as the aim of my shoot is for each photograph to be natural.

After arriving home for the weekend yesterday I went out to a local park I had in mind to use for the photo shoot and took pictures. I got to experiment with different settings on my camera, to see how the park bench idea would work and which camera setting looked best:

Landscape setting: Normal / Black and white

Close up setting - Normal / Black and White / Sepia:

Backlight setting - Normal / Soft:

After looking at some of the photographs I've taken and experimented with (some examples are above) I think the 'backlight' setting works best; the pictures are a lot clearer than the other two settings I tried out and the lighting looks the best / would work with the models more so than the others - it just generally looks a lot more effective.

I also am really happy with the setting I've chosen for the photo shoot, if the weather is similar to how it was in these pictures that I took yesterday then the shoot will work really well. The bench with it's surroundings matches the natural look I want to achieve. I feel the photographs will look really effective and I'm feeling inspired / excited for the shoot!!