But instead staying at home complaining about this, I decided to use my free time and book the one studio to practice setting it up and taking photographs with good light.
So I took my boyfriend as the model and assistant too and I went to the Uni with big extcitement.
We were really confused at first, when we got there, because we didn't know what to first, how to start. We have seen one of the teachers (I found later that his name is Peter) and asked him to help us and he was really kind and showed us some things about the computer etc. After this he went to teach a group of students health and safety rules and I gladly assisted too because I wanted to be sure that I hear the instructions again so I won't do something stupid.
After that I returned to the studio and started setting it up.
I used one type of lightning, the umbrella, because I was afraid that I will run out of the booking time and I won't have enough time to take pictures (and I was a bit afraid to try something else except what I have seen in Chris's first lesson because I didn't want to ruin expensive studio equipment). This turned up to be not such a great idea because I should have experimented more, but even less is better than nothing.
I set the camera as Christ told us (shutter speed 1/160, ISO 100, Manual mode), I've put the camera on the tripod and I've plugged the USB cable from the camera to the computer. I've attached the hot shoe adapter and the sync lead into it and started shooting.
I found that using a tripod when taking pictures was very restrictive and it wasn't a big difference in using the tripod or not, and I don't think that I'm going to use it for the final shooting. Furthermore, it is really hard to move and I lost a lot of time trying to take a good picture with the camera on the tripod because I didn't know how to set it to have a good angle, and even if I knew, it is time consuming anyway, which I think is not good when doing a proper shoot because everyone wants to use their time effectively.
At first we used a white background and then we tried with a blue one, but I didn't like the blue one because it gave my pictures a cold feeling, I felt that there was too much blue tones in the picture.
I tried to take pictures with the reflector under and without it to see the difference and which effect I want and for a beauty shoot I'd definitely go for the reflector.
I had some problems after shooting too, because I didn't know that if I plug the camera into the computer the pictures won't be saved into the SD card but on the computer instead. I had to figure out how to save them into my SD card and how to delete them from the computer afterwards but in the end I succeeded.
Overall, I feel like this practice session could have been better, but consiering that it was the first time when I touched studio equipment and other camera rather than mine, I think that the result is pretty decent.
Me and my boyfriend both posed and we had lots of fun doing this! I think that he'll be my assistant in the final shooting.
Test without using the reflector.
Test using the reflector. This looks way better for a beauty shoot.
There is some of the equipment used for that shoot (and also extra things):
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