Workshop 2 - Products

Peanut Butter

I used one tungsten light to get the shallow depth of field and two reflectors, one to bounce the tungsten light to get a softer light and one to reflect. I tried to achieve a very bright happy fell to the product which i believe i have achieved. I also shot this tethered with was defiantly a help, as i could see a bigger image on screen and a more accurate exposure. The only problem i found with tethered shooting is that it was a bit slow to get the image to the computer.

Ratio - 1-2

Light side - F2.8
Darker side - F4

Self Critique

I believe i could have used a more interesting set rather than the white table cloth and the bread with the spread on it. With the limited time we had to shot i believe this wasnt to bad of a result but could defiantly be improved.

Workshop 1 - Portraits

Aim and style of of portait - I tried to achived the glamourous head and shoulder portrait using hollwood lighting and a softbox with a spot gradient in the out of focus background.

Lighting Ratio - Main light, Softbox, F8 - Fill light, reflector F11, Background F16

Ratio - 1-3

Self Critique -

Terrible!

I did not achieve the image is was looking for at all.

I couldn't get the depth of field i was looking for to throw out the background enough to tell it was not calendars. I didn't not have enough time to swap over to tungsten for give a larger aperture to a smaller depth of field. I tried to move back and have a longer zoom but it wasn't enough.

I like the mona lisa feel but that is all.