Assignment#2 | Final Image

Assignment#2 | Lighting test

Digi Polaroid 1 | Plan A with natural light only

Digi Polaroid 2 | Plan A with one light added

Digi Polaroid 3 | Plan B with natural light only

pre-light diagram

Camera settings - Digi Polaroid 1 : 800 ISO | 1/30s @ f/3.2 | 35mm lens
Camera settings - Digi Polaroid 2 : 800 ISO | 1/100s @ f/5.6 | 35mm lens
Camera settings - Digi Polaroid 3 : 800 ISO | 1/30s @ f/3.2 | 70mm lens


For this assignment, we tried with michael to both find two nice places that could be interesting for our final photo. The one called Plan A is my favorite, but it includes windows and first, we will be shooting in the morning so the light won't be the same next time, and, we don't know what the weather will look like. That's why we thought about a "Plan B". In my case, I will do the shoot in the stairs of the lobby, without including any window. This is safer in order to have a good shot even if the weather is bad because it actually excludes the outside environment.

Anyways, I really like both of these two compositions that were shot in the same place actually so I think I will try both if we have the time. This way, I will have more options to choose what is the best place to enhance my model.

To imitate the natural light in the environment and increase its power, we will probably use two white lightnings by bouncing them on the high ceilings.
Plus, we can see on these three digi-polaroids that a highlight in the eyes is missing so we are going to bring different smaller light sources such as a reflector disc, or a speedlight to add a bit of kick to the photo.

My model is a real state agent. As she is propably going to wear black clothes, I'll be carefull to keep details in the blacks. I asked her to be professionaly dressed as when she receives clients and to bring an agenda or someting she often uses to have an accessory just in case we would like to add something in the shot.


Location Kit needed :
- 1 camera + memory cards
- 1 24-70mm lens
- 2 x 1600 white lightings
- 1 vagabond battery
- Extension cords
- 1 Powerbar
- 1 reflector disc
- 1 diffuser
- 1 polarizing filter to avoid reflections on the windows if necessary
- 1 speedlight
- 3 stands
- Pocket Wizards
- 1 laptop + a cable to shoot tethered
- 1 grey card

Midterm Assessment : Product Shot on Location - Part 2

retouched image with layout

retouched image

original image

lighting diagram

For the final shot, we decided to use different types of lights. We kept the available light for the background, and we turned on the lamp that was on the left side of our product to add a bit of mood in our shot.

We mainly used a modeling light with barndoors on the right of our product to enlight the tortellinis, and we added a third light with a snoot at the back of the product to give more punch to it.

Then, we played with a polarizing filter to avoid the reflection created by the plate on the table.

We shot the product having in mind that we would flip the image after in photoshop, to be able to keep a nice composition with enough space to see the writing properly on the layout.

So, that's what I did when I edited the image in Photoshop, I first flipped the image, cleaned the table a bit and adjusted the white balance.

However, the colors of the fonts should be changed to facilitate the reading; probably by writing the red words in green and the black ones in white.

That was an interesting experience!

Midterm Assessment : Product Shot on Location - Part 1

Digi Polaroid

Digi Polaroid with layout

Pre-light diagram

As we can see on the digi polaroid, the available light creates a nice mood in the photo. The only thing is that the product is not light enought to be emphasized. So we will add a light specialy for the product and leave the background with its ambiance light.

We will leave a bit of extra space in the frame, to permit to the graphic designer to crop the photo as he wants. It's pretty easy in this composition to crop a bit of the light that is in the background, and also a part of the table that supports the plate.

We can see in the digi palaroid with layout, that there is enough place to put the name of the magazine at the top, and be able to see the rest of the text on the left and right of the plate. Colors of font should be probably changed to be able to see them more on this darker background.