food shot

Break Down

Check list

• Camera/lens/battery


• Laptop/Leads


• Food pumpkin
  
• Fish tank


• Book studio/ three lights /2xP70 with grids / large soft box on boom/small soft box.


• Bucket


• Towels


• Sketch of lighting diagram


• Tripod
  
• Reflector/black card/white card


• Cardboard box cut out for dropping control
  
• Diffuser
  

This was a three light set up.

The light where run from the Bro pack Grafitt A4

There was a large soft box at the back of the fish tank for a white background. The back ground changed through the shot form black to white and then to a spot light( P70 with medium grid) was shoot through a diffuser to have spot light on the back ground. this gave me three different results

the fish tank was 3/4 filled with water and there was a a small soft box on the right hand side of the tank. the third light was to light up the pumpkin as it hit the water. so it was of to the left of the fish tank back around a 2meters this light had a P70 reflector on in with a medium honey comb grid.

I was photographing on a canon with 70-200 lens at 135mm ISO 200, at f8-1/125. this was being tethered in to light room 3.

Problems

Problem with this shoot was the main one that was getting the pumpkin sharp and in focus. so i built a drop hole that would sit on top of the fish tank and the pumpkin would be dropped in the same place every time.The other problem was that i need to have at the shortest flash duration that I could get this would all so help with the sharpness and of the images. that is why i used the Bron pack Griffit A4 has the short flash duration out of all the pack i had to chose from. Also all three light where plugged in to the one pack that help bring down the flash duration as well. the other thing was that cleaning the glass after every shoot was a pain in the bum.

Over all i would say that im very pleased with the shoot that where produces out of the camera. But with a little work in the post i would have to say that this was a successful photo shoot.

Thanks to my assistant Jess.