Fruit

For part of one of my briefs, the one for Andy, I have been asked to photograph a piece of fruit using different types of lighting. This was kind of a trial as I've completely forgotten how to use a studio after not using it for over a year! (And yes, I am aware that a pepper is not a fruit!)

These are the contact sheets from the fruit shoot:














The images of the pepper are all 45 degree lighting.









The image was taken with a reflector bouncing the light back onto the pepper as you can see on the side.













Instead of just photographing the pepper as a whole all the time, I tried photographing just a section of it. I like how this looks.




Again, I photographed just a section of the pineapple. Because this has two sections to it and photographed each section individually. These images were an attempt of high key.



Another attempt of high key.
I prefer this section of the pineapple than the one above.




This was an attempt of low key. Its kind of worked, but not in the same way. I put this image up because I love the reflection of the pineapple coming off the product table.




This is a better example of low key than the one above although I think the image is still too bright for low key.





I put a soft box behind the product table, to create a back light effect. I don't like this effect as you can't see the product very well. The light is also causing a flair behind the pineapple which doesn't look very good.



After having my assessment with John, he said to put my own stamp on to my images. So when I got home I made a brain storm, thinking out of the box on how to photograph fruit in different way.
I also did some research on how other people have photographed fruit. I found these images on www.google.co.uk



I really like how the fruit has been photographed in water. The orange will have been thrown into the water and turned upside down to get this effect. I was going to try out this but I didn't think that doing this was putting my stamp on the images.
I love fashion photography so I decided to do research into photographing models with fruit and came across with these beautiful beauty images. I decided to give this a try.













I like how the make up is linked to the fruit that is being photographed. I want to try and do this on my images.





Here are the contact sheets from this shoot:











I used 45 degree lighting for these two images, as you can see that one side of the models face is in light and the other side is in shadow.





For this image I used a top light and a reflector on the other side of the models face to bounce the light back on to the models face.








These images are high key. High key images are where you make the image bright but the model in the correct colour. I used reflector on the left hand side of the model to bounce the light back on to the model, making the image look more high key.