lighting setup

This is the way I had to position my lighting to direct the light to the product.

This is a view of the light from behind directed to the product.

This is a how made gel colour to add to the light to defuse it slightly.

proposal

Studio Photography: Product Shot Proposal. 

The client I will be representing will be the celebrity footballer David Beckham. The product is his fragrance Respect from 2017 . The target audience oh this product is men between the ages of 17-35. I would expect to see this advertisement in magazines, on billboards, social media platforms and websites. These would be ideal because the age range of the target audience come into contact with these forms of advertising regularly for example this age range are using social media for most things from business to entertainment and just basic daily tasks, like wise with billboards these can be anywhere and seen by anyone but tend to be in more populated areas generally around shopping areas. The type of lighting I am going to use to make the finale product look as professional as possible do to the current circumstances with Covid-19 will be a lap off to the left angled to get correct angle of lighting this will be a make shift set up as I am stuck for space and unfortunately will have to add a white surface in the background to defuse the light slightly as it is a very yellowish light. The props I will need are the product and some and some incense sticks.

Makeshift setup

This was the setup that I could make with the space I have very little space available I had to place it under my desk and drape a curtain down the side to block light.
The base is a reflective black self that is held up to level with the back of the desk by weights then i placed some paper behind the product to give a cleaner look and had a lamp directing the light towards it.

  These where two results i got without the paper that came out very bad for example the background reflected the flash back.

This was the first attempt with the paper and I positioned the product differently as well. 

This is when I put the product back in its original position.

I then just tried different angles and distances from the product.

I found my main issue was using the flash on my phone and once I turned it off the images came out better.

Product Shot Research

https://joshuabuhrmann.com/product-photography

I chose this image because of the use of the lighting the key light makes the water droplets on the can giving the impression of it being cold and the fill light fills the shadows in giving a appearance of depth.    

https://www.roudstudio.com/commercial-photography/product

I chose this image because the lighting makes it seem like a high class product as if its something of a high price and is therefore desirable. The key light bounces of the front of the watch to make it pop against the black background and the fill light give the depth by filling in the shadows a bit. 

http://www.annabellebreakey.com/gallery/product-still-life/abreakey_iphonexr_ebayproductphotography/

I chose this image because the use of a white background makes the product appear to be something quite clean and therefore desirable. Also 

the lighting is just enough that you can get a good idea of the color of the product and the reflective back to the phone. 

Headshot Homework assignment

                                        Photographer-Francis Bertrand 

How this image made me feel:

1 Confronted.

2. Vulnerable.

 

3. Comfortable.

4. Easy.

5. Raw.

6. Enchanted.

7. Anxiety.

8. Messy.

9. Tension.

10. Basic.

11. Unsettled.

12. Contempt.

13. Fear.

14. Awkwardness.

15. Envy.

16. Excitement.

17. Curious.

18. Serious.

19. Casual.

20. Interested.

21. Sad.

22. Lonely.

23. Isolated.

24. Cold.

25. Warm.

Lab 5-lighting ratios

This week we had a chance to use a key light, fill light and background light in the studio and this is the result I got using a 8:1 ratio which means that the key light had a f value of 8 meaning that the fill light was three stops back in the scale meaning it was at 2.8 and the background light was at 11 one stop up from the key light.

Photography lab 3

Photo 1: This photo was my attempt at removing a shadow by bouncing the flash off the ceiling. As you can see that it has very little shadows.  

 Photo 2: This was my attempt of using a flash from using a bounce from behind the the camera. I feel like I could have done better but this was the best shot out of the pic. 

Photo 3: This image is was my attempt at creating a shot with harsh shadows. The shadows are very little but very harsh as they appear behind the subjects ears and under his chin.