For this studio project I was required to take some digital photographs to contain within the proposal magazine document. These were to act as a visual portrayal of every item within the person's handbag, to an extreme amount of detail in order to explore every tiny component.
The photos were initially shot in the university's satellite photography studio using a DSLR camera that was available for hire here. The studio was set up with two halogen lights positioned at two different heights, and rotated to best light the object in the centre. The table, floor and walls all have a white background and this illuminated the objects even more so.
In order to capture all the images I wanted in one go, I planned and drew basic sketches of how I wanted each shot to be art directed.
- carrying all belongings outside of the bag
- exploded bag content
- gridded bag content
- bag as it is
- birds eye view of the bag open
- contents of a purse
- contents positioned artistically to form a pattern
Seen as this is a personal investigation of belongings- I chose to ask a friend to partake in the photographs. In return for this I was also used within her project to help set up her shoots and to model for certain angles and compositions she required.
Teamwork here was needed as creating the freeform typography here was very time consuming; and had to be done simultaneously for a time lapse video to be captured at the same time.
However this photography session was unsuccessful due to not realising one of the setting on the camera was set to "manual" instead of "automatic" as we had hoped. Therefore no photos from this studio time were able to be used unfortunately
