Workshop, Equipment & Set-up
Above you can see the infinity curve set-up. This is good to photograph items with a clean white background with no edges visible.
I used a variety of different tungsten lighting set-ups with diffusers, umbrellas, soft-boxes and reflectors to mess around with how soft or hard the light hits the object and also how the reflector and diffusers can soften this and reflect in back onto the object from the other side, which reduces the harsh shadows. These were all useful things to know for when we are photographing work.
I also used a few different lenses. The first being the standard lens that comes with the Canon SLR. This is the 18-55mm lens. I also used a macro lens, super macro lens, then added some extenders (shown in the image) to get an even closer macro shot for some of the images.
I shot in manuel and had to play around with the settings to get the images perfectly how I wanted them to look. The main things I altered were the aperture, shutter speed and white balance to get the appropriate images. I changed the white balance to 'Tungstan' for the majority of the images, because I was working with the tungsten lighting.
Photographs
Some images of the Screen Printed potato sack using the regular lens and macro lenses.
Some photographs of Mikey's magazine using the super macro lens and playing around with lighting and different angles to shoot from.
This has been shot using the super macro lens. You can even see the colour halftones in the image it's that close detail!
Some more close-ups taken of Seb's lasercut folder
Close-ups picking out the detail in the thread on my hat.
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