Studio Product Assignment 2 Research, Plan and Practice

Inspiration:

Images Sourced from Rimmel.com 

PLAN: 

For my Deep Etch small product project I am going to shoot a lipstick add for Rimmel. I originally wanted to shoot a Chanel perfume add until I began researching and found that Rimmel does great advertisments and suits my style of photography more than Chanel's usual adds. 

 I like how Miss Jagger is lit from the right side in the first image and I will try to re-create that in my photograph. I will be photographing my friend, Kate Rosier. I own the lipstick that is used in the above image and I feel this product will be appropriate to photograph and then be deep-etched on to the portrait I take of Kate. 

To create the nightlife scene behind my model I will be using some fairy lights hung up behind her and Kate will be standing as far away from the background as possible so the fairy lights become out of focus to create the night-life scene.  

Lighting Set up Ideas:

Planned lighting set up for my Model Kate in the Rimmel lipstick Add

The planned lighting set up for the Rimmel lipstick Shot

 

Practice Shoot for Rimmel Add Portrait

How the Fairy lights look out of focus.

Today I did a practice shoot with my model Kate Rosier and we worked out that the fairy lights are super hard to work with. The idea of the fairy lights was to create the look of a nightlife scene behind the model but it was hard with my speedlight on the camera to light kate well and not the fairy lights behind her so when we are in the Studio on Monday Kate will need to stand as far away from background/lights as possible so they become out of focus like the example and not lit by the flash which will be to the left of Kate.