Photography Session 3 - Setting up at Home

From the last few Photography session I learnt the basics of setting up and lighting, also took photographs of the pieces I could, however due to the process of this current project I wasn't able to get all the pieces together before our last session.

I wasn't so worried as I felt these are still in working process and wouldn't necessarily make it on the website, however it would be good to have the images anyway. So using the techniques taught to me in these photography sessions I set up a make shift booth in my room. Lucky for me I have blackout blinds so light from outside wouldn't be a problem.

So for a back drop I used an A1 sheet of black card propped up on a table and curved so to avoid as much shadow as possible. I then had too identical lamps which is important to get the lighting balanced on each side. As the bulbs weren't brilliant and they weren't smooth I added a filter of tracing paper over them in order to take away the glare and produce a softer light.  

The camera and tripod was then just set up the same as they were in the photography studio, I just had to translate how to do the settings from Canon to Nikon. 

The results: 

The results aren't perfect but they show the pieces a lot better than if I was to photograph them without this set up or scan them in. My focus was a little out in parts and I feel to white balance was playing up on my camera. I found this difficult trying this on a camera i'm not familiar with. These wouldn't be going into my website due to the quality, but also these are still one going pieces and need more developing. As for the first image I felt this set up for this wouldn't work for the piece and one of it in a space it should be in would make more sense.