Evin's Photography Blog

Image 1- Tim Hawley. I really like this image because of it’s simplicity and sharp detailing of the watch. As there is a glass face on the watch, having watched the lecture I imagine the lights were placed either behind or to the side of the watch in order to not cause a reflection. As you can see on each side of the watch it is illuminated. The photographer also didn’t put the whole watch in the frame but focused on the face instead which is possibly an approach I will take if I am to shoot a watch because the main thing that draws people to a watch is the face. Image 2- Timothy Hogan. I really like this image as there are a number of fragrances all from the one brand. This is a concept I may look into using as I could do a brand advertisement rather than just a one fragrance advertisement. This image is not overly lit and it appears that the light is shining through the side of the bottles. I also believe there was some sort of filter paper used here to alter the colour as not all of...

  This image was shot using both soft box lights and camera settings of Shutter speed 1/200, f/14 and ISO 100. I feel this image could’ve been a bit brighter. For this image I used both soft boxes one with a blue filter and one with a pink filter. I like the effect it had on the watch and the surface. I used 1/200, f/11 and ISO 100. I used a light cone for this image in order to focus the light onto the watch. I feel that this gave a nice effect as the background is still relatively dark. I used the same settings for this image as I did for the second image.

 

For this image I used the main light at about head height on the left side of the face. I  pointed the smaller flash towards the right side of the background to try and capture the light on the right side. I think this image worked well and feel that I have gotten close to the  other image. My camera settings were ISO 100, 1/100 shutter speed and f/9.  

For this image I decided to try the black background and I also put a black sheet underneath  the aftershave. I think this worked well as you can see the reflection underneath. The gold label is well suited to the black background. In this image I used the white background. I had the main light on the left and the fill light to the right. To try and eliminate the shadow as much as possible I used a reflector on the back right side of the image. I feel that this image was a little too dark around the top but it is all about trial and error to get the right lighting for your image. I sprayed a bit of water on the bottle for this image for something different and to get a  more advert type picture. I like how this image turned out.  I feel that this went rather well considering it was our first time shooting objects. I took a lot of photos which  I think is key.