Product photography is generally where a company would like to sell a product and it needs photos to help advertise their own products. Before deciding what photos that I would like to create, I decided to create a pinterest board so I could get a feel for what I would like to do. Here is a link to the pinterest board and a screenshot of the board is shown below. Now, it was time for me to really think about what I would like to have done. I soon found that I really liked how the painting with light looked within images and I wanted to recreate it with my own image. But before getting into the doing, I needed to set up the studio with Emma, my tutors help. Initially, we set up the studio background being black and we put two lights either side of the table, with a reflective black plate on top of the table. Below is a diagram of the set up that I had for the shoot. Now it was time for me to shoot the photos that I wanted. Below is a contact sheet of what images I actually took. I followed all health and safety practices and this is therefore shown within my health and safety risk assessment.
Whilst I was shooting I didn't expect them to look very good. But when I uploaded the pictures to the Mac I was amazed. It would be very effective for an advertising company to use this for their adverts as it makes people stand and look at the photo. ConclusionIn conclusion, I really like product photography, it made me think about trying to keep on doing the product photography for potentially small businesses if they would have me which I have asked some small businesses for the opportunity. For the whole shoot there was only 1 image which I liked myself which was the one that I showed the before and after for. Therefore, I am not sure if it was a successful shoot. At first I used the smaller torch for the painting with light and I didn't like the effect that it created. It didn't captivate me like the larger torch did. My research really influenced what my idea was going to be with one of the images that I had saved in my Pinterest board, having the idea of the torch with the colour gel over the top of it but swirling around the product almost to bring your focus directly into the product. I learnt that I need to start to really think about the composition of my photos, ensuring that I have attention to the smaller details. For example, I had to edit out some dirt that was on the mirror which would have made my own life easier when coming to edit thus reducing the production time for the photos which would help in the future if I ever go into industry. If I had to do this again, I would tie the torch onto a piece of string and hang it from something above to hopefully make the painting with light be more fluid therefore making the image appear better and easier to look at for a viewer. Additional informationAfter editing the image, I uploaded it to my Instagram page where Lynx themselves liked and commented on my images where they asked me to adapt the image for it to be placed into their Christmas advert. Unfortunately, I could not complete this on time. But I still thought it was cool for Lynx to have seen the photographs.
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