Studio Portraits Progress Update

Mixed LightingThis shoot was inspired by fortune tellers. Using my coloured disco ball set to spin I made it look like a sort of glass ball type orb thing.

Environmental / Creative lighting

This photo was about a kidnap victim. Using a light at the front to look like a door opening and one at the back for separation. No props allowed so I used light as per the brief.

Deep Etched Portrait part 1
The product to go with this photo will be a protein bar. I will be advertising Musashi.

Studio Products Progress Update

Alcohol
So I re shot my alcohol shot using Gossips Pink Moscato. I really liked the outcome of this shoot it was very fun especially after the first time I shot this alcohol didn't work out very well so I have the result of the re shoot I decided to do below.

So for this shoot I used 1 large soft box to the left hand side and a white reflector on the other side with a pink gel on the background, while an assistant poured wine into the glass.

Product of my choice - Sunscreen

For this shoot I used a bright light on the background ( blue cardboard ) and a large high soft box on the left hand side. I was trying to make the photo look like the sun was shining down on the product.

Home Appliance - Blender 

For this shoot I used a soft box on the left hand side and reflector on the right really close to imitate the light being shone on the left hand side. This shot proved a bit difficult since there was a fair bit of glass. I originally wanted just a white background and table, but that made the glass hard to see. I then tried using black behind the glass but I didn't like how it showed all the imperfections in the glass. I settled on grey as it was in between and makes the glass stand out.

Inspiration - Portraits

Just a few images I liked and gave me some inspiration for my studio portraits this semester.

Mixed Lighting....

Environmental lighting

I would say the first image was my main inspiration for my environmental lighting.

 Used with this one to create the environment out of light...

Deep Etched Portrait

Product Research

Inspiration

Just looking at some inspiration for product photography.

 These products have been lit from the left hand side with a large soft box and possibly a reflector on the right.

This photo I liked the idea of. The photographer has constructed a fake watch and photographed it on fire and then dropped the real watch into the photo using photoshop. 

Studio Prac

Workshop

Test Shots, workshop prac - alcohol.

This was the intro to alcohol photography workshop. We had to photograph 3 different bottles and my top 3 are in the photographs below.

Glass isn't a particularly easy thing to shoot, but once you get the hang of it it isn't all too bad. 

The most complicated thing to play with were the reflections in the glass of things around like walls, cameras, tables etc.

I ended up building a very very high podium for the first image which worked well in not having as many reflections so I decided to use it in the other two shots as well.

ISO 100, F11, 1/250

ISO 100, F11, 1/250

ISO 100, F11, 1/250

Studio Research

Task 5 - Beer and Wine Photography

Which of the photos are better?

2, 3 and 6

Why?

The lighting is much better in each of the chosen photographs. Also they look like they are the actual advertisements for the beer companies which means a photographer was paid to produce excellent images for the company to use to market their products. 

The other photo's look like someone has sat the beer on the table grabbed what ever camera they could find threw some lights on it and snapped a few pictures. There seams to be no evidence of post production not even minor stuff.

Examples of Beer and Wine Photography I have found:

Electronic Devices

Examples

Many of these products below I think have been photoshopped. The one recurring lighting set up is having a corner of the selected product with a faded white triangle either this could have been photoshop or the studio walls being in the way and the photographers having to use the reflections to their best ability.

I think they have all been simply done but they work so well.