Studio Introduction

I have worked in a studio environment for the past two years sins i started studying photography at college. Its never been my strongest photographic skill as i prefer working on location but i do use studio lighting in most my work.

We started with the basics like Heath & safety in the studio then working with exposures which is still my weakness I'm terrible working with film because i alway feel like i will always mess up the film. 

We then went on too working with continuos tungsten light and light metering 

these are some notes from the studio work shop.

these are notes of how to control ISO and light metering in the studio.

i also did attempt to do voice recording but my iphone memo recorder is very quite. 

The next task was understanding and showing us what equipment we could use for studio work example Lights, Tripods, See Stands and how to attach the lights correctly to the stiggets.  Then we got to set up the mini studio sets.

we then went on to Look at using Medium Format cameras i had studied Medium format before at my college but i never got round to actually use the Cameras and only really had a short lesson on the subject. so it was great to finally get round too using the cameras . I forgot to take a photograph of the studio set up with camera and the studio set up. 

The next task was to pick 1 object to photograph me and my Partner Luke Charles picked the wooden mallet as are object because  we really like the shadow from the mallet under the tungsten light. Using light meters to get the lighting right to shoot for the highlights, the mid-tones and the shadows and 3 different Fstops, but thats where me and my partner messed up instead of changing the f stops we changed the Iso i think. but we correct are selves on Lukes roll of film.

I think the best part of the whole work shop was the processing the black and white film. i had developed medium format before at college but i messed up the film when exposing it and lost everything. I developed it the old traditional way doing it all buy hand in the processing lab. so the too experience developing film in the processing machines was very exciting for me. going into the dark room for the first time at this university was great. and i was very happy with my results of my negatives. I yet need to scan in my neagive contact sheet to upload to my blog but will be done soon.