Product Designer Oriana Milagos Firgau Marcano

Product designer (a student of Ulster university in the 3^rd yr)

-designs door handles

-we will shoot in her class where she usually does her designs and then in wood workshop studio where she produces the final outcomes

-Book equipment and bring flashlight, light meter, reflector and camera

-Studio has constant ambient light but natural light shouldn’t be too strong as we are meeting after 5pm

Contact sheet

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We ended up photographing Oriana just in the wood studio as the environment was much more interesting than a class with desks. Her work was wooden and metal, so it fitted the aesthetics of the space. Oriana brought some props but also some finished pieces around which we intended to take pictures whit. At the I had to improvise with lighting as I didn’t realise during collection of the equipment that some parts were missing so Oriana took it really friendly and helped me to tape some things together and we were able to move on. However I was more comfortable with lights which led to photo-shoot being much faster/ professional too and photographs came out well light.

Final Portraits

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In final edit I discover that I have range of images that I choose from which are technically correct, fit the brief but also model looks great. Overall, I am satisfied with the shoot. Some photographs are stronger than other but I think the best ones are where Oriana is laughing properly as I believe that describes her personality the most and it happened when she was more comfortable with the camera.

In this shoot I used only one flash lights with umbrella and reflector which balanced other side of the face that created more balanced natural lighting.

We also tried different positions around to room which allowed me to practice with measuring and lighting correctly which I achieved quickly after couple of test shoots.

I feel that some shots from distance are very interesting angles but Oriana is a little bit lost behind all the work so probably more successful photograph that would be on magazine would be one of the midshots.