Final Folio

Free Choice

I choose this knowing it would be a challenge and not knowing if it would actually work but it did. I printed out a big checked board that i made in photoshop and dripped water down using the refection almost like a very wide angle lens to see the pattern behind, but by doing this u can also see everything else around i found it was very much like shooting chrome as you can see very refection. I dont like the black refection in the side of the drop but i cannot do anything about that as i needed something to make the drop with. I also do not like the motion blur but because i was using the blad the fastest shutter speed was 1/800 which was not fast enough. I tried using tungsten lights and using my camera but the effect was not the same.



Macro

I was shooting another macro shot when i found it was just not working, so i went on the search in between the studios for something interesting. I found this bug on a very small leaf i was looking at. This bug is amazingly small as i shot this a 1:1 with the macrolens on the blad and still needed to crop in a little bit to get a good composition.



Chrome

This photo was very fun tring to eliminate refection's and was a very hard challenge. I first started by tring to add all white then add black but this was extremely difficult and i eventually ended up introducing white to black and all using only one light to light the chrome, one to light the tyre and one for the background.


Large format camera movements

I used the sinar back on the large format for this shot demonstrating the shimplug principle. I tried to reference the tea cup ballet by olive cotton in my angle and lighting but it was quite hard due to the shape of the cups. I tried to redo my large format shot and demonstrate swing but it ended up worse than this photo. The large format camera was exteremley hard to use due to the line up points were not accurate.





Glass - Dark Field

I choose the typical product shot as i found that almost noone else was doing this for glass. I used a fairlu shallow depth of feild to throw the shot glass a bit out of focus as it is not real bourbon in the shot glass. I used a snoot to create a spot light on the background over the bottle to almost show that jim beam is in the spotlight and emphasis the bottle and product. I used two soft boxes and a reflector to light the subject and create the white edges.



Glass - White feild

I shot this on the light table and lit it from behind, got the background light right to the perfect gradient and put on the vase. It is very simple and quite easy to light. I filled up the vase with water this reflected through and perfectly light the whole glass vase due to its shape. I introduced a few black cards but it didn't seem to do alot as my surroundings were all very dark creating the black refection's on the edges.

I tried many different thing to make the image more interesting such as many different dyes and compositions but i found that simplicity was the key as Ginettes goldfish out of her bag was great. It worked very well in this shot here and is quite interesting.