Yesterday Olga and I created a simple photographic studio. We borrowed a set of studio flashes from the photographic society, and purchased a number of items like backgrounds and umbrellas. As with anything that is new, both Olga and I were full of excitement and inspiration and planned to try out a number of different techniques. The plan was that this would take a couple of hours. Of course this was completely unrealistic and actually spent the best part of day in the studio. Whilst Olga and I didn’t do everything we were planning, a number of other ideas came up during the shoot. I would like to say thanks again to our two models Akiko and Matt. Especially for putting up with us saying move, stop, move, stop, smile, don‚Äôt smile, etc, etc.
I think it would be fair to say that I’ve learnt a lot from this first attempt at using a studio arrangement. This includes thinking more realistically about what you want to get done in a couple of hours/day, manual and automatic focusing techniques under both normal and low light situations. I even picked up a couple of new things about lighting which I didn‚Äôt come across when I did stage lighting at school. I guess that’s not really surprising since even though they both have subjects and light sources, the arrangement is generally different i.e. the light source is not hanging far above the subject.
Hopefully over the next couple of days I’ll be able to put up some of the pictures.
