Nathan Lanham

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Brilliant Food Art To Advertise Extremely Sharp Knives…

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Meat shoots

This shot was shoot in my studio with two studio lights in the middle of the afternoon around 2.30pm. The idea for this shoot, was to show the best of the meat in its environment and then add my twist to it. this where I played around with different back grounds. And added butchers hooks knife and the pole in to the images. Then with the light I over exposed the day light and had a p70 with a grid, as a back light. then the other light was off to the side at a 45 angle to the meat, and then used the sun as the fill light.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Beetroot shot

Check list

Camera
Lighting gear/(2 x P70, 2 x verso packs, 2 x soft boxes on boom, snot, grids medium)
sand bags
Book studio
Beetroot
Lighting diagram
Clear the CF Card
Light meter
Fishing line
Hair ties (thanks Tina)

This was a four light set up. With two bron colour power pack (verso).

There was two lights with the p70 reflector with the medium grids to back light the beetroot(f16). There was a large soft box on the back ground (f8- 5.6). The other soft box was over the top of the beetroot, and angle back to the camera to stop the bouncing on to the back(f8). The shot was shoot at ISO 1/125 f8. The I idea of this shoot was to have each beetroot with a different hair cut. There where five beetroot with different hair cut. One beetroot has long hair, one has short hair, one has short hair cut on an angle, one has hair in a pony tale, one has a parted hair.

The back ground was gray to white. I have plains to add spot light in the back ground as a if there are down lights in the back ground, or spots on the back ground.

Problems with shooting. The fishing line that the beetroot was hanging off, would not stop spinning. The leaves on the beetroot where stuck or pinned down with bamboo sticks. So photo shop will be needed to take out the fishing line (maybe I like the lines.) and the sticks.......

Friday, September 3, 2010

Waclaw Wantuch Photography

This is one of one of my all time favourite photographers. He uses light and shadows to control the shape and image that he wont's the viewer to see. these amazingly powerful images are carefully crafted through the use of the lines and curves of the body. The body is sculpts and twisted into theatrical and abstract forms, leaving the the viewer breath taken.