Tales of Gloucestershire - Final shots and Evaluation

After shooting in just the few boys bedrooms I wanted to get more images of different rooms to get more of a comparison of how all the students have got their own individuality and how each one has made themselves feel at home.
To do this, I sent out a message over Facebook to the students in Pitville halls and asked if I could photograph the book selves in there rooms and set out with my camera and tripod going around different flats and blocks. After a couple of days of shooting I got images of 50 different bedrooms shelves which I had to get down to 6 to print and submit. Below are the 6 images I chose;

This image is taken using a tripod and the artificial light from the LED lights on both sides of our student rooms. Using a shutter speed of 1 second to let in as much light and detail from the shelves as possible.

Using a long shutter speed the same as before, I also used a exposure of F/20 to give as much detail of the books, photos and alcohol bottles in the images. This means that you can zoom into the images and its still perfectly focused and detailed.

As you can tell the I took the images around Christmas time, meaning some the students had decorated their rooms with tinsel and trees. I like how all the images are perfectly square and the bookshelves are square in the centre too.

When photographing in this room, Charlie moved the guard dog from the door on to his shelve because he wanted to include him in the picture as something he'd brought from home and made him feel settled when being here.

After looking at my images in more depth, I think if I was to do this shoot again a way I would improve the pictures is by using a fill in flash or speedlite to fill in all the gaps where the artificial light cant get to, and also to remove the shadows. 

Out of all my images I chose these 6 because I thought they showed the individuality of each student, from the alcohol bottles and books/folders of student life to the stuffed toys, fairy lights and pictures of family. Even though the bookshelves are the same in each room (whether they face left or right) are built the same and are the same colour. Overall I really enjoyed shooting this project because I got a small insight into how everyone is individual and getting to know everyone a little more, but also photographing the shelves and seeing the outcomes of each shoot and how different each one is even though the set up is exactly the same for each.