On-set

These are some photos taken of me on the shoots.

Up on Devil's Dyke, we arrived at 5:30am for the sunrise at 6am. This gave me time to take photos before the sunrise, as well as during and after. I also got time to test camera settings and take photos with different aperture settings, shutters speeds and ISO. I got a wide range of lighting options this way, allowing me to get the perfect golden colour of the photo that I chose to represent this folktale.

 The image of St. Leonard's dragon was captured in Horsham Park, where a statue of the character resides. Again, I took photos from every angle and used a wide range of settings to try and make it easier later on when I would have to remove the statue from this background and plant it into a different one. The light bounced off of the dragon's metallic scales beautifully, but the angle of the sun in the forest location was slightly different, and I had to add a shadow to help the dragon to blend into the background more naturally.

Again, the Mount Caburn shoot was very windy and cold. We climbed the hill at around 6pm, ready for the sunset at 7pm. There were clouds moving in, so I began taking photos long before the sunset in case it became concealed. I found it very difficult to balance the over-exposed sky and the under-exposed foreground of the hill, so I knew that I wanted to capture a peachy glowing order to make the photograph aesthetically pleasing, despite the tricky lighting. Out of all of the photos that I took, the one that I chose to use was the only one that captured the atmosphere that I had envisaged when planning the shoot.