LO5 - Photography Edits Video

Editing techniques
One of the first steps I took with most of my images was to alter the tone/colour of the image so that the white balance was appropriate- with some of my images I'd used the flash before deciding I didn't want the saturated effect so these ones took longer to edit. As I didn't have much consideration of the white balance when taking the pictures I had to gradually improve them in the editing stage.
Exposure compensation concentrates on how you adjusted the shutter speed and aperture of the camera depending on the lighting. The days on which I did my photoshoots were not sunny but were well lit enough that I could use natural lighting in my images instead of using any soft-boxes. For the majority of my images the aperture was F5.6 and I had a 1/80 shutter speed as they allowed me to get the correct amount of light for the images to look natural but also the shutter speed ensured any passer by moving in the background would have a slight blur to them so the focus was on my stationary subject. When photographing in the Winter Gardens I used an aperture of F8 for some pictures as it was more well lit than my other locations.
When photographing I also considered the ISO and had it at 800 as I was outdoors for most of the shoot and this is more suitable for relatively cloudy days. The higher the ISO the more sensitive it is to light so this was a perfect balance; initially I was unaware of the importance of the ISO and used to have it quite high but this changed on my final shoots.
Depth of field is important to consider, especially when focusing on the face of my model as to emphasise their expression the background needs to be slightly out of focus. Portrait mode can aid my in accomplishing this as well as editing in my final stages to show the different levels of depth.