Discussed Major Assessment Project.
Workshop 2 - Small Products
Formative assessment.
Equipment: DSLR, USB Cable, computer, tethered capture software.
Cannot Use: Background Paper, the cyclorama or soft boxes.
Group: Sammy Harrison, Alex Dickson and Tamara Weatherburn
Due: For a group review at the end of class.
Task: To photograph a product in the context of use by building a set in the stuido. Conssider this a real job. Work in small groups. Produce two stylistically different shots in portrait format. Two different objects. Can use props. Product needs to take up at least 50% of the frame. Highlights and shadows must be detailed.
Product 1 Image
- Create a concept that shows the product in the foreground with suggestions of use in the background.
- Style and light the set to suggest a household environment eg kitchen
- Lighting must suggest a household environment
Photographed with a Canon 5D Mark ll
F5.6 @ 1/160th with ISO 160
Our first image was a guess a little bit comical. We had a play on a toy mushroom being cut up in a kitchen like a real mushroom. I think the composition works quite well but when revisiting the requirements we didn't meet all of them. The general exposure isn't too bad but we do loose a lot of information in the black background, the white spot and a bit on the face of the object. The black background I believe works with the contrasting colours but seeing as we were replicating a household environment it would have been more appropriate to lighten it and to maybe have a different background that may have represented a kitchen. We did fill up approximatly 50% of the frame with the object.
Lighting Set Up
One light to the left with honey comb diffuser and a reflector on the right.
Product 2 Image
- Create a stylistically different shot.
Photographed with a Nikon D700
F13 @ 1/60th with ISO1000.
Our second image we tried to create a retro space age theme to match the old camera. We used a foil background to complement the metal tones. The blue is used to break up the dark background. Because of the reflection in the glass underneath the product takes up just under 50%. We probably could have cropped in tighter to reduce the black and enlarge the product. We feel that this photograph was quite effective but would have liked to get rid of those pinky coloured reflections on the lens and right side of the backdrop.
Lighting Set Up
We used ne light with a snoot to light the background on the right side. We also used a blue gel to add some colour to the foil backdrop. We had another light on the front right to light the camera which was flaged with cardboard to reduce light gettting on to the background.
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