Today, like about...five hours ago, my class got an assignment from our photography teacher; we were going to photograph items, like we were photographing for like, let's say, the IKEA catalog.
Product photography. The items we got, were a lego lunchbox and a simple drinkingglass.
I only had about twenty minutes to use atleast four different lightsettings on each item, and well, I didn't make it. I barely finnished the lunchbox before we had to go back to the classroom.
Which sucks - a lot. But I got what I got, and since it only was ment as a try out round - since we've never really done it before - I guess it's okay. Had some trouble in the beginning, with the camera having spots on the inner lens, that we couldn't remove there and then.
I used Nikon D80 (I prefer D3200, though), ISO sensetivity on 160, and I varied the shutter and aperture a lot, according to the light settings, and I don't really remember exactly what I used.
Everything, including zoom and focus was on manual. (If someone were to wonder)
The first picture was taken with one lightsource and a reflector.
The second was taken with two lightsources, at about 45 degrees angle.
The third one was taken with two lightsources and a third lightsource, right above the item.
Aaaand...that's all I had time for.
I did photoshop them a tiny bit; using curves, brightness and contrast, and levels. Also, I removed some ugly, tiny spots that came from the camera lens.
(don't ask why the last picture is placed so wierd, it just didn't want to behave and I didn't care for arguing more with it than I already had; it's like that, and that's just the way it is folks!)
