Workshop #3 - Hasselblads

Yay we got to work with the hasselblads finally! And they were SO incredibly slow. I am considering downloading the software so I can use it on my laptop rather than those ancient apple computers because it took almost 5 minutes to take each shot!
We also had a fair bit of trouble getting the camera to work, so I can't say it was a terribly 'good' first impression. But after the half an hour it took to finally take a picture, it looked great! The quality is just lovely and there is just so much you can do with such a large file.

For the exercise we decided to go with a sort of 'Bunnings Warehouse' kinda company. So we used the ladder as our prop. The cover page shop is supposed to put a 'friendly face' on the brand, while still being casual and accessible. Our landscape spread page shows off the artistic and 'new age' side of the company. Overall I think the shots work well and it was an interesting experience with these wonderful devices.

Workshop #2 - Product Revision

We were working tethered for this shoot, which was a great new experience which I am sure to use in the future. It was great being able to see the image on a large screen and made it much easier to notice flaws in the focus and composition etc. Therefore I think a greatly overall quality can be expected from photos when shooting tethered to a computer. I still like taking the shot through the camera however, because it just seems weird to actually take it from the computer without even touching the camera!
For my packaged product I chose to do fortune cookies. I had an asian style material and a candle temple thing as my props. Originally I had the material as the background (the first shot), but it was wrinkly and it just looked really tacky, so I tried having it on the ground (the second shot) but in the second one the product gets lost in the background so I think it works better having it behind the product just to add some separation, but next time I'll iron it first!
Overall I think the revision was ok, but I really want to get into some new stuff.