The initial purpose is to create 6 film stills with each one can be conceptually engaging in its own. A total of more than 12 scenes were planned together with lighting set up. I used bounced flash with room ambiance light to create a balanced lighting effect. I then used Photoshop for montage. Although the lighting and composition is preset the same, because of bounced light, the changing position of the subject changed the reflected lights to everywhere. This result in tiny different colour hue to everything. Therefore, when photo montage, it is not easy to match the colour seamlessly. I should have considered this bounced lighting limit before the shooting. Another issue is that bed is soft, when sitting or lying on it in different area, the surface deformed. This makes impossible to photo montage perfectly as it is not possible match the bed linen checker. Only 8 works are reasonably ok. However, I found that the scenes with facial expression are too literal to create any conceptual engaging platform. Deadpan works much better and it could create multi layers of meaning behind the scenes. It was not my intention to create a sequence in the fist place, but sequenced edition works better by chance.
In general, I am reasonably happy about the first double portraiture project but not happy about the technicality of lighting, montage and the scenes set up.
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