The second time we focused on head shots. This, because David Hobby (original Strobist) started a new series of assignment exercises whereas the first topic was about mugshots, ehm... headshots. So, we could perfectly combine lighting 102 with the new assignements. The initial ideas was to take part in the challenge to win some photo equipment. But finally, no one of us passed in since the deadline was very taff. For this evening, we invited a model, namely Christian Morf, who potentially needed some photos of himself for job applications. The assignement contract was on time-for-picture, i.e. Christian spending his time and getting some pictures instead. All on a non-commercial basis.
We set up an umbrella from camera left, a silver reflector on camera right and a background flash lighting the white wall from bottom up. Enough writing, here are the results (click on the images to see a bigger version):
The third meeting was about food. Jens knows a shop owner of a very special shop. He sells exclusive stuff from Switzerland, e.g. cheese, dry meat, tea, etc. As Jens one day entered the shop, he saw a really amateur-like looking image of some cheese. So, he decided to offer the shop owner to take some pictures for him on a goods-for-pictures basis, so the shop owner sponsoring some goods to take photos of and then getting the pictures to make advertisement. It took us approximately 4 hours to get the shots.
We recognized that it is challenging to take food shots. But finally we came up with a solution that used no more than 5 flashes and a macro tent. One flash from behind, coming in high, two from the side, snooted, lighting the background and two from the front, one camera left and one camera right. On the second shot, the camera left one was moved to camera top to light the cheese a bit more. Here are the results:
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