My own experience as a studio photographer since the beginning of the semester was challenging. Creating my studio was easy to make but when it came down to shooting i realized it has to do a lot about using the lighting very carefully. At first it was pretty difficult but after all of the homework assignments with shooting objects i saw myself progress. It was really fun working in the studio, my favorite was the capturing the water in motion. This was fascinating to me because the camera can captivate so many details which is exciting.

One of the works i saw that captured my attention was Uta Barth. 

This picture was very large in person at the museum. This image is called the Sundial on chromogenic color prints. I liked this image because it doesn’t look like any ordinary picture the effect she used looks like the inverse of the objects. I like how you can only see the silhouette of things and not the actual thing which makes it look interesting. This photograph looks like it was taken at an early morning because it looks like daylight coming out of the windows.  This photograph opens up my mind to make something like this in the studio it can be very fun and creative. We can set up objects and place them on a table set next to a window with a lot of daylight and create the inverse. This inspired me to create something different and maybe combine objects together and make it look like something its not using this type of method. Overall the exhibition a world of its own was very interesting of people using film projectors to experiment many things. I thought it was very academic how people back then found things out without taking any precautions just seeing what are the outcomes of their experiments and what effects will happen.

The second shooting was really interesting. I wanted to make it look like treasure so i added some jewelry around it to compliment it. I used white paper for my background and this time i did not have trouble with the lighting. The lamp had so much detail to capture i had fun shooting it.

I found this lamp in my aunts house and i thought it was pretty interesting to shoot. I found a black piece of paper in my room and decided to set it as my background. Putting this together made a dramatic set especially with the lighting. I aimed the light on the floor and it casted a beautiful mysterious shadow on the right. The paper can be more clean and hide the texture for next time.

Photographing this perfume was fun to do. The lighting i used with my desktop lamp worked very well. I angled it to the left side of the perfume and it casted a shadow. I love the mood of this picture because it goes with the fragrance.

Photographing the toy was quite difficult. I had some trouble with the white balance because the tiger was giving off a yellow light. Then i placed the light over his head and it began to fade away the closer i put it above his head. The shot came out pretty clean and i liked it.

Shooting this rose was quite difficult. I used my desktop light to illuminate the background doing this created a shadow against the wall. I liked the outcomes of this image because it has warm colors. I used the walls of my room as the background.

I chose these sneakers because it has a lot of designs and so i purposely chose it to capture all of the details. I used the desktop light and some window lighting. This made the sneaker to cast a great shadow on the paper. I was impressed with how smooth the background came out. The lighting could have been a little brighter.

Building this studio was a great experience. At first it seemed difficult to find space and calculate where exactly to put the blank piece of paper. It was a good thing i found large pieces of paper stored in one of my old bags. I placed one big one in front of my closet doors and the other is placed on top of the other paper. For my lighting i used a desktop lamp and also a regular lamp to aluminate the room and object.