Studio Set-Up

Digital Image Production

In this blog I will be explaining some basic set-ups that we have been taught for this semester in Digital Image production. All these skills that we are being taught are too help us to produce the best outcome of images for our advertisements, we will be taught different skills and set ups which may best fit the kind of image I want to produce.

In the first practical lesson for digital image we were reminded and taught how to set up the perfect studio set-up ready to shoot our adverts later in the in the year. In the diagram below I have explained the perfect set-up for an advertising shoot. There are many steps to setting up the perfect studio; First set-up the camera on the trip-pod with a lens of choose ( can be macro for up-close images or 100m for normal shoots) and the camera needs to be in the front of the set-up, two white sheet stands in front of two softs boxes to create a soft back light, two black boards to keep the light in and create shadow and lastly a C-stand with a soft light over head to create light over the top of your model.   

Tips:

- With the white soft boxes and over head lights always keep them at a medium lighting setting as if it is too high then the images will be over exposed. 

- To create different types of lighting on a model you can use a reflector and find out which one suits your shoot better.

- Soft boxes on either side of the photo-shoot can make the images appear softer and less harsh then other lighting. 

There are other set-ups that we tried out like this diagram above, the set-up is the same as the first diagram but instead include dark boards near the front of set-up near the camera. These dark boards can be moved closer together near your model which creates a sharper image and brings out bone structure and shadows in the models face. Below are some examples of the images that we produced through this practice, we also experimented with different lenses. One of the lenses used where the 'Macro' lens which is a lens that can captures high quality up-close images which is perfect for an advertsing unit. As my word is 'fill' and my idea is to fill in parts of the face like lips, eyebrows etc this feature on the camera could work really well for my advert. In the class we exsperimented with different features of the face and also lighting to find what kind worked with different skin tones/features.