For my first personal shoot for the exam, I wanted to keep within the theme of "boxing" in nature and confining nature. I wanted to place the image in a literal box/border, not an implied box or an edited box like in my previous shoots. I decided to use a polaroid style camera and conduct a shoot based on nature and landscape images. This way, my images are printed inside of a box or border as the actual chromatography paper prints a box around the image. The camera I will use is a 'Fujifilm Instax' - a replica of a polaroid but the printed images are credit card sized. This cameras flash is automatic and there is no way to turn it off, so I will have to change my settings based on my natural light settings. There is 5 settings on this camera - normal indoor lighting; cloudy; normal outdoor lighting' high-key outdoor lighting and high definition. i will most likely be using normal or high-key outdoor lighting for this shoot. I will also have to consider that the viewfinder is different to a DSLR viewfinder, making it almost impossible to get close to an object as it will not focus as you will be focusing on something completely different that you can see in the viewfinder but that may not be directly insight of the lens.
Contact Sheet:
I created a contacts sheet by scanning in all of the Polaroids at once in an organised fashion and then rotating and selecting in photoshop, using the paintbrush. The first two images are 'testers' as I was testing out the viewfinder and lens to see what was in the viewfinders sight but not in frame. The rest of the images came out as expected base on the settings I used. I had to change y settings multiple times due to the weather - cloudy- and due to me using indoor lighting for a select few.
Final Edits:
For my final images, I didn't use Photoshop to edit, I only used it to rotate my scans of the Polaroid's and to crop if necessary. I in no way enhance my images as I wanted them as natural as possible to reinforce the idea of nature. The only editing I did was changing the setting on the actual camera to have it adjust to the lighting.