Selected shots from shoot one

These are my chosen shots, unedited and selected from my first shoot:

My particular favourite is this first shot where she is gazing out of the train window. I'm really happy with the lighting in this image and how you can still see the reflection of her face in the glass. I feel that this shot works best because she didn't know I was taking it, so I caught her completely unaware and in a daydream, even though it does look slightly staged. I feel that this shot would work really well paired with a landscape/cityscape view taken from a window.

Out of these three shots of her sitting on the edge of the bed, my favourite is the second image. It is where she looks most relaxed, comfortable and in a daydream. I don't believe that the other two work as well because of the eye contact and the slight smile on her face, which shows her awareness of me and the camera. When editing this photo I plan to slightly crop it so that the white flare in the bottom left hand corner isn't as visible; however, I am not too concerned about the technical aspect of these images, as I feel that it is not as important as the subject matter. I do however feel that the flare does slightly distract the viewer from the main focus of the image.

I am really pleased with this shot, I feel it depicts exactly what it is that I wanted to capture in this project - the change from youth to adolescence, and the idea of experimentation with fledging identities. Although the lighting in this shot is slightly dark, when editing I plan to adjust the levels to the correct exposure and also crop into the photo slightly in order to cut out some of the distracting environment that surrounds her, and focus solely on the activity of her experimenting with makeup.

In this shot I wanted to capture the scars that have been physically left on her body from a car accident at the beginning of the year. I felt that it was important to capture this as it is something that she is very conscious about, following the judgement of other kids. I wanted to include her soft toys within this frame as they are symbolic of the childhood that she is slowly leaving behind, and will soon be replaced by makeup, computers, phones and cosmetics. I also felt that the soft toy with the word 'flirt' embellished on it was quite ironic and humorous, as she is still too naive to know it's meaning yet it won't be long until she is surrounded by things like this. The light flare on the edges of this frame were unintentional, although I do think they compliment the image; however, when I come to edit this photograph I plan to slightly crop out some of the bed in the foreground, and direct the focus mainly on her limbs and soft toys.

Overall, I am very pleased with the shots that came from this shoot, I feel I have managed to capture the essence of her change into adolescence, and I feel that working in a documentary style - not planning or staging too many of the images - works nicely for this kind of project.