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Higher Photography

Photoshoots (Development)

Photoshoots

Section titled “Photoshoots”
  1. Break your theme into sub-shoots to avoid repetition.
  2. Demonstrate a range of appropriate techniques suited to your project. This does not mean every setting must change on every image – consistency is valid when appropriate, but overall your project should show technical competence and creative decision-making.
  3. Produce contact sheets in Affinity Publisher by following the first 8m30s of the video below (but do not change the page width and height from the A4 defaults).
  4. Keep contact sheets demonstrating photoshoot image selection and test shots as part of your development evidence; save them (in the format detailed in 6. Printing) in a folder for subsequent printing.

Critical reflection

Section titled “Critical reflection”
  1. After each shoot, review what worked and what didn’t.
  2. Make decisions for refinement in your next shoot.
  3. Provide at least one larger interim summary review in addition to the individual shoot reviews to demonstrate that you have stepped back and assessed your project trajectory.
  4. Keep notes of your thought process.
  5. Maintain a shortlist of final images.

There are no word count limits for shoot notes. They should be specific to your work, showing reflection and refinement, but not excessive or repetitive.