When one of my group members decided to use pills or drugs as their PSA concept, I came up with the idea to not show any human figure in the photograph, but just show only the products. I had to use the photograph set where it was rolled out on the floor to accomplish this task. Then I only used one light source instead of two and changed the direction of it so there would be barely any light in the photograph. My intention was to split the finish photograph in two with a diagonal line in the middle so one side would be really dark and one side would be really light. Afterwards, I had to carefully position the drugs and the containers to replicate how it would actually look like in a situation where someone collapsed after overdosing with drugs in their hand so this would look similar to how it would be and not feel to staged. Lastly, I had to adjust the shutter speed, aperture and increase the ISO to get the feeling I wanted and to prevent the photograph from being to dark or to light. However, I just went into Lightroom and adjusted the exposure and contrast to give it this look.

Both of these photos used the strobe lights at different intensities with different angles. The drug psa used an overhead light focused on the pill bottle. The child abuse PSA used two strobe lights pointed at the background in different directions.

Mainly worked with strobe lights with a grid to work around not having a lot of heavy shadows in the background. Wanted to keep things light but also touch on something serious.

Learning Log #8

This is my PSA  poster about STOP THE ABUSE ! . I used black background. The Light boxes  were placed on both of her sides the right and the left  to make her hand clear because this is the message for this PSA. I think about making it n a different smart way by adding the text on the model .  I set up the ISO to  100, the aperture was 9 and the shutter speed was 1/200. I took different  shoots to end up to this image that I am using to the poster.

CLAMSHELL Log #4

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Split                                                    Broad

Window Lighting

Log #6

Soft box light over head, with color gels clipped to get the right amout of light/shadows and color into the photo

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It was really fun with working for the magazine cover is fun and thanks for the my model I got what I was imagining. So I choose Time magazine because I always loved there cover because its powerful and so real.