Digital Image production 1 'Advertising' studio session.

In Chris's studio session today, he explained the new brief for this semester and what we were going to be learning and practicing each week, we also got to practice shooting with some new lighting set ups. I enjoyed todays session and inspired, making me think of some ideas for my final advertisement images,which created really beautiful soft lighting.  Although I feel excited to begin the studio sessions again for photography I aim to become more confident in setting up lighting and equipment myself and using the programme capture one in this semester. Chris explained today that taking multiple images and comparing them in every shoot, really helps you to select your best images and also  show change and develop with different techniques used in your pictures. We practised three different lighting set ups today which all created some really different lighting and effects to the face.

Todays focus was to practice different soft lighting set ups and taking some images of our partner in a beauty and advertisement style, focusing on the face, hair, nails, eyes lips etc. Chris also said to always consider and plan the concept and overall look of the images you are trying to achieve and consider, color, nails, hair, makeup, product, theme, audience, mood
-All images must have the correct exposure


















Equipment and Set up.

- 3 light set up (main light & 2 back lights)
- Diffusing panels (Use c stands to hold up panels)
- 50,80,95 ml lenses
- Camera Settings 5.6>ISO 100
-Check lenses are always clean and smudge free for good contrast in pictures
-Diffusers create really soft lighting
-Chris explained that creating a good balance of contrast and brightness in a beauty image consists of increasing the contrast of an image and decreasing the saturation to get the correct medium
-Changing the aptitude of an image makes it darker, to do this you must hold AV on the camera and then move the wheel on top
-100ml lense is good for zooming in if you want to take close up images etc eye, lips
-To bring the brightness of an image down, reduce to exposure
-Always move the camera and never the model
-You can create a more private area for your model to pose in by facing the lights and diffusing planes towards each other on a 45 degree angle and then taking a picture between the panels, this technique is great to use when trying to achieve more shadowing around the face/cheekbones

Capture 1.

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To compare photos on capture 1, you have to click the multiple box on the side bar at the top of the programme.


Being confident and understanding how to use the Capture 1 programme and also tripods and setting up are important to know in this brief, as computers will be used a lot, when editing and developing work.