Photography Slot

Today myself, Anna, Grace and Charlie had a photography slot booked so we could each photograph our work well for the end of our individual projects. In preparation for this we had each got all of our collateral printed and made, ready to photograph.

Unfortunately some of Charlie's work didn't print right due to a different printer being used and a colour being completely different to the rest. Charlie decided that she didn't want to photograph it with this colour in as it was not how she envisioned it to be, so she did not join us in the end.

I had two projects to photograph, my client brief 'Wheatless & More' and my individual brief 'Type Principles'. I had originally intended to photograph my 'fonte de vita' brief also, however didn't want to rush this brief to finish it in time for this slot.

This was the first photography slot I had done so it was the first time I learnt how to set up the equipment. Working as a three we managed to get all the lights set up relatively quickly. As we were in the small studio we used the table to set our work out. There was already a black roll on the table, so we looked over our projects and decided if there was anything to be photographed on this.

I decided that my type principles book should definitely be photographed on this as it is white. Anna also decided for her book to be photographed on this, so we started with those two books.

Following this we moved onto using a white roll and photographed Anna's second project, Grace's project and my client project.

Some photos:

As clearly seen, the photographs taken on the black roll worked extremely well and aren't in need of much editing at all, just a bit of changing to make the pages as white as they actually are instead of the yellowish colour that they currently are.

The photos on the white clearly need a lot more work in terms of editing. This is something that is interesting to me as I took the photos on the black with my own camera, but then used the college camera for the white roll. Also on the camera screen, the images looked a lot brighter than they actually were when transferred onto my mac. The images above are just lightened, without any other editing, so it shows the difference. I took some of the closer photographs on my own camera and they turned out much better than the other photos with the college camera.

While I am happy with the final result, I think in future I will use my own camera. I think it shows that I am much more capable of taking better photographs with it as I know how to use it well and know how the photos will transfer across to my mac.

Overall the quality of the photographs is much better than creating a make-shift studio space, and I have found that it clearly heightens my works appearance. I will definitely be using the photography studio again for my work.

Doing this has also shown me that I should go to this with a plan already of how I want to photograph. I think that the Wheatless & More work needs to be photographed against a grey rather than a white. This way, all the work can be seen well against the background. The white on white clearly doesn't work so well, so I think I will re-photograph this in the future and definitely consider the background colour and layout of the work.