My initial plan for this shoot was to photograph my dog in human situations, as described in the previous post with my checklist. However, because of the time I was ready to shoot yesterday, the lighting would have been too dark in the rooms that I wanted to shoot in, so I am going to instead try the shoot on Saturday when I have more spare time to do it in. However, I did find some chocolate in my house, and had the idea of contrasting white and milk chocolate in various ways, as well as liquid and solid chocolate. My plan for the shoot was to photograph the solid chocolate first, arranging several pieces to produce something worthy of a food magazine. I then planned to melt the two different types of chocolate, photograph them separately, then experiment by swirling the two colours together to see what patterns I could achieve.
Shoot Evaluation:
So far I have only edited about 3/4 of the shoot as the last few images didn't copy over to my memory stick for some unknown reason, so I will have to look at them at another date. However, what I have managed to edit today surprisingly looks better than what I thought they would, as I had a few issues with lighting and focussing the camera at home, I really should have had some assistance when it came to swirling the chocolate as it only left me with one free hand at times to shoot the pictures. I personally feel that the majority of the pictures look best in black and white, as this further enhances the contrast within the image, and gives the photos a somewhat more professional finish. I found at times I had to set them to black and white as the lighting left me with unusual colour results which looked unrealistic and unprofessional for food photography. I particularly like the images where I have used a Twirl filter effect on some of the images, as it has given a much neater, smoother design for the chocolate, whereas what I swirled together by hand often looked messy, where as this shows a clear distinction of contrast.
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