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.

Workshop #1 - Portrait Revision

For this image, I was just experimenting with different colours of cellophane in front of the lights. I had a blue backlight, shining through a piece of wood with lots of holes in it, and a green snoot light on the subject.
I wanted to use a rembrandt lighting style for this portrait to make it look more edgy. I don't know what you would use this portrait for, maybe advertising a club or something?

Main light: f8
Fill Light: f4
Ratio: 4:1
Background: f22 (due to backlight)

As this was mainly an experiment I am not going to be too hard on myself about the style, but I under exposed the image a fair bit, so I had to lighten it a little in photoshop to bring out the shadows a bit. The backlight effect didn't work as well as I had hoped, as you can see the outline of the light through the holes. I am surprised at how vibrant the green and blue came out though, I didn't expect it to make such a difference.