A day in the Studio

Spent a day and a half in the studio working on some 'concept' shots in conjunction with the major project. I wanted to trial several ideas and techniques so to focus my mind on what I am going to do for the final assessment images.

Closeup
I created a set, actually a small wall 100x70cm, to install a power point. The wall works well for keeping the power point in position so the shoot is done horizontally rather than trying to do do an overhead shot also making it easier to light.

Poor lighting - to many shadows. Not closeup enough. Boring shot – a bit like a training manual how to do it shot. 

Good close up – needs more interest. Like the lighting on the circle connectors and copper wire.

More colour and interest, need to get the circles back into the shot. 

Glass - needs work to get rid of extra highlights from studio position behind camera, blue tack needs to be out of shot at base. Table reflection needs to be large to show tungsten filament inside globe. Dark green background board gives an old time feeling rather than using black or white background.

Quite like this. These types of lights are hard to come by these days and it is unfortunate that the exposed filament is not sitting correctly because one of the wire holders is broken, will have to find a replacement. This may very well be a shot to consider using the Tilt/Shift lens to have a focus plane running through both globes. 

Two globes. One in front without glass and one with the glass behind. Horizontal line in the wrong place. Tungsten filament should be more in focus. Might be better to use a Pearl  bulb rather than a clear to represent the inner workings. Source a Pearl bulb and one with filament in correct position.

Better than previous shot. Filament still distracting. Bayonet vs Edison bulb a problem?

Same problems as above however being on about the same focal plane better. 

Concept that 6 old style light are equal to one of the lower watt new bulbs. Edison vs Bayonet?

Held a red gel filter to represent heat and use of energy. Equal sign a gobo cut out of large sheet of photo print  paper found in recycle bin, with an equal symbol I cut in the attached to a piece of opaque plastic sheet found in the studio with a soft box behind.  Three lights used – softbox behind, two lights with P70 reflectors and the one on left had a medium honeycone grid and the one on the right had a fine honecone grid. Used the honeycong grids to keep the gelled light restricted to the particular objects.

Same as above but this time held a green gel in front of the energy efficient litght to represent green choice.  

Same as earlier photos this time the red and green gels were attached in front of the lights. Red gel look too magenta and has too much spill, and green gel not strong enough. Need to flag the red gel and see if I can find strong red or double/triple gels and the same with the green.