Week 6 - Macro

This week we focused on macro photography which was very fun and i learnt heaps of useful hints. Unfortunately i cannot show the photos that we took because andrew lost his memory card containing the images (if we can recover the images i will post them).

We shot one photo of a stamp with a DSLR and one of a watch with the Hasselblad. This is the info from the shot including calculations for Macro tubes.

Shot 1 : Watch Shot 2 : Stamp

Magnification Factor 0.5x or 1:2 1x or 1:1

Camera Hasselblad H3d2 5d M11

Sensor Size mm 33.1 x 44.2 36 x 24

Lens focal length 80mm 90mm Macro

ISO 100 100

Extension Tubes Yes No

Focal Distance 120 180

Bellows Extension 2.25 4

Stops Increased 1 2

Light reading N/A 2.8f 1/8 sec

Adjusted Exposure N/A 2.8f 1 sec

As you can see we did not achieve the light reading or Adjusted exposure for the watch as we ran out of tim due to yet another Hasselblad failure and waiting for our extension tubes from other groups. We did achieve fairly well done stamp and watch photos that i was quite happy with even though we ran out of time.

It was a great workshop and will be very useful in the future. I am still a bit sloppy with the Calculations but just need some more practice.

Week 5 - Chrome

This week we had a go a to shoot chrome and shinny objects. This defiantly turns out to be the hardest thing to shoot in the studio. We tried so many different things trying to light this coffee grinder such as completely surrounding it with a light box, changing camera angle, lighting with only reflectors and completely surrounding it with the soft box. In the end we went for the soft box on top looking straight down reflector underneath and two reflectors to the side. I am fairly happy with the lighting on the object but or composition is fairly bad.

It was a very fun and challenging assignment and should be fun to try chrome a bit more in the future.

Week 4 - Glass

This workshop was one of the best workshops we have had over the whole year, I learnt so much and many tricks of the trade of beer photography.

We had a guest teacher for who used to shoot lots of beer photography, after this i am now very keen to shoot beer for my glass products. I think it will be very fun to experiment with all the tricks he taught us.

This shot was what looks like something a bit naughty haha.

The grey in the foreground is very distracting but i like the effect of the dark edges on the bottle. It also needs to be pulled in alot closer to not throw away pixels when cropping.

The hasselblads for the second time in a row have failed us, 1st time our CF cards didn't work in them and still don't and now it was saying magazine error. This gave us little time to get the shot done.

This shot was done extremely quick as we were packing up. we basically left our lighting setup from the last shot and chucked a piece of black card for the background and chucked in the glass.

Overall it was a very fun workshop and cant wait to try some more glass and chrome.

Intro to Hasselblads

Our assignment

We were asked to shoot two corporate portraits of the CEo of a up and coming business for a magazine cover and double page spread. We also had to use the new hasselblads medium formats cameras.

We decided our company would be a hardware enterprise such as Bunnings.

Portrait 1

Full length

Double page spread

We used the ladder to show the style of the company being a hardware style enterprise and also to portray that the company is climbing to the top.

I believe this photo works fairly well with lots of empty space for text. The only criticism is the black space in the corner but other than that i am fairly happy with it.

Portrait 2

Head and shoulders

Cover

I am also fairly happy with this shot, I like the ladder linking in both photos but i think the black shirt on a black background doesnt work so well. Also the light catching on the ladder is a bit deceptive, maybe move the light to create less reflections.