Practicing different lighting techniques & angles in my living room with a few still life photos of things around my apartment. I tried to start by using only one object at a time, but found it boring so started stacking and combining them.
Overall, happy with the results. I had some exposure issues, something that I continue to work on in practice. Enjoying in particular the hatchet, journal, camera image posted first, and even though the ice & ribbon image doesn’t really ‘feel’ like my style, I like how it turned out as well. This is the first session I’ve had where I intentionally recorded my camera settings and the lighting set-up for each exposure, which has helped greatly in identifying issues and troubleshooting some of the quirks of film work that up until now had escaped me. Looking forward to more of these sessions in the future.
Also, quick shout-out to folks on YouTube posting lighting tutorials and photography basics. I watched so many videos trying to nail down a good livingroom lighting set-up and some DIYs were invaluable. In particular:
Product and Photography Principles with Don Gianatti – CreativeLive
Lighting for Still Life Photography – Ed Vrosky
How to Create Good Photographic Composition – LearnMyShot
Camera: Minolta X-7A
Lens: Minolta MD 28mm 1:3.2
Film: Ilford Delta 400 Professional
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