Final Photo Attempt 1

For my set up of my final image, this is what I used. In my tests, I used a similar light up but didn't use any natural light. First, I had a laptop at full brightness with a plain, white background. This added a soft light to brighten the surroundings. On top of that was a phone's flashlight, pointed at the subject. The flashlight was helpful as it made the crystals sparkle a lot more than any other light. I used a mirror to create a soft key light with the use of the natural light. I concentrated it right on the subject.

The subject was placed on an A3 white page. This was placed on a shelf that was held up by a small box. I had tried it lower but the images came out darker as the window was higher up and perpendicular to the set up.

I liked these images and they were what I'd envisioned when looking at the simpler images Pandora created. However, when I began to take the pictures, I noticed that they looked flat to me, even when they were brightened and edited.

The shadows were hard to edit out without making the image too bright or too white. I also felt that I was limited with the angles because they started to look the same the more that I took the pictures. I wanted to add a second prop or find a new approach to it, so I scrapped these and started again.