Amor CucurbitaI wish I remembered how this conversation came up, but I hit up Bec to do a spooky couples Halloween photo shoot around the end of August/early September, using her pumpkin masks. I wanted to do spooky goth pumpkin couple but elegant. I wanted to try and make it look like we too have "fall vibes" as well and not just a whole lot of green and brown. It's been weird since because now we keep seeing photos of couples wearing actual pumpkins on their heads and it looks really cool but that has to be gross having slimy crap on your head. Kudos to them for effort! The closer we got to Halloween the more I realised how cool it would be if we had pumpkin patches here, so I decided I'd DIY one. I asked my friend Kelly if she was cool to help out on the shoot and on the day went and bought some pumpkins. They weren't particularly easy to find in my neck of the woods. Joondalup had one shop selling them and they were so big I couldn't even pick them up which only led me to wonder why I have these stupid ideas because here's me who struggles with a camera and I want a photoshoot with large pumpkins. The shops closer to me, one only had 3 pumpkins and the other had a box full but I at least got some variety in sizes. I bought 5 and decided i'll just clone some extras in if I really feel like I need too. I think I only did that for two photos in the end. We got to the spot before the models so it gave me some time to set up and work out my light. Last time I was at this location was for my Pet Sematary shoot and I just used natural lighting but it wasn't this bright either. I wrote a huge thing about this on Facebook during the week, but while I loved studying photography they failed me when it came to learning about fill flash. The course covered everything from printing, processing, science, business, using different types of cameras and film and I got to try all sorts of photography styles I never would have considered trying on my own (fashion, photojournalism, scientific..). The domestic photography unit it the only unit I ever dropped out of and it shows from the lack of family portraiture you've seen me do. That class and some macro class were the electives in 3rd year and I started out doing both but dropped domestic when my mum got cancer. There was an assignment somewhere on Fill Flash but I don't remember it ever being covered in class so I obviously failed the assignment and the lecturer wouldn't explain it to me. I finally managed to work it out a couple of years ago. I wouldn't say I've mastered it, but I have a better idea at least. So while setting up I thought this is a good time to show the difference! First shot is natural lighting and the 2nd photo is using the fill flash with a large octobox attached.
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