Studio Photography

Workshop Studio Photography 66

Once again, we had the very talented Adam Thomas to show us the magical world of studio photography. After making us all confident behind a DLSR camera, it was time to kick it up a notch. With this workshop Adam took us on a detailed trip through our photo studios and how to book them. He showed us quick and easy how to get access to all the tools the facility had to offer and how to use it correctly. The goal of this workshop was to give us the necessary induction to the studio so that we could start using the space for our own good. After giving us a quick tutorial on how everything was used, he split us into groups to spread out over the 3 different product tables to shoot some photos of our own.

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Nicolai Bye 2nd Year Graphics

Workshop Studio Photography 68

Lucy Frankland 2nd Year Graphics

What We Did

I paired up with Lucy, Shannon and Alana from my class. Luckily, we were all confident with each other, so we could just have fun shooting our different designs. I had brought the spreads I was going to use for the Interim Review as I thought these would not only show a design I had made myself, but also be interesting to have backlit. Me and Lucy had both done photography before so setting up the sensor to the lights, and setting the lights correctly was not a problem at all. Through a lot of goofing around and laughter we all ended up having a good time and getting some pretty good pictures for the outcome, while almost going blind because of the room being pitch black and the blitz being bright as the day.

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Outcome

For my outcome I had brought four spreads from my process book at the time. I mostly tried to make interesting pictures by spreading them out in a fan like matter and taking pictures from different angels with a small aperture. Personally, I find the backlit paper interesting the way it shines through the layers. I feel like I am more likely to use the studio again for the future, seeing the beautiful outcome that you can achieve with a little bit of knowledge and a camera. For me this was a quick and easy workshop that simply made me able to use the studios now. I think this will really come in handy for future projects when we might be doing stuff like labels or other physical objects I might want professionally photographed.