Lighting & Documentation

Lighting & Documentation
Photography

Today we had a session with a tutor from the photography department about documenting. It was really interesting because I got to see how to use a DSLR and how to use a white balance and look at the room I am wanting to take the shoot in correcting the various light contrasts.
We went around various peoples work trying to get one painting, one sculpture and one installation to document. It was really interesting because the painting had gloss on which gave off reflections and uncontrollable light which was hard to capture a good picture. Therefore, we added a few lights which bounced off the white walls behind the photographer which softened the focus on the painting.
After this we went to an  installation piece, this piece was made from small pieces of string wrapped around beams to make a big spider web. This was extremely hard to get the camera to focus on the small pieces of string which we ended up using a macro lens allowing us to get up close to the string and focus better!
Finally, we went to my piece of sculpture (money doesn't grow on trees) and we took various shots against a white wall. As it was a sculpture piece it was interesting as there was various shadows given off from the piece. I also found out be re-positioning the lighting in different places it can control the direction and quantity of shadow allowing me to take a good picture.
I am going to see if I can get the pictures I took off the camera we used for this session for documentation!