Coming up to the final week of this interior styling project, we all felt that we were able to relax a little bit due to the fact that we were ahead with what we thought. By doing so much work the week before we were finally ready for Keith Davies to take the professional photographs of our set. When Keith had arrived to the graphics studio due to our set being in that space it had taken him awhile to set up all of his equipment properly. So whilst we were waiting we decided to still fiddle around with the layouts of our props on the desk, this soon change as Keith was all set with his camera ready.
To start the arrangement of props we decided to go by section by sorting out firstly the desk arrangements, this had taken the longest to get correct as there was a range of props that we removed which consisted of some books, laptop, jars etc although we did add more props in which were the ping pong balls, pencils, written text. Overall when taking lots of different photos of the different arrangements for the desk we had finally found one where we discussed that the less of the table the better it would look and standout more. Carrying on with the arrangements we then moved onto the lighting where we decided to cut the fringing slightly shorter as it would contrast better with the black paper fans shown below, we also made sure that the light structure was under the black stripes and it made the marking standout clearer where we also moved more central into the set.
With some slight changes to the cushion placement we finally had our final outcome complete where Keith was able to take the final shot making sure the lighting was correct, he had also took photographs of close ups of the set to get a better insight on the detail shown in our set. Although we were torn whether to have the plant on the side of the image as with the plant it create a realistic image where without it created a more magazine approach, in the end we decided to go without the plant when deciding as a group.
Rebecca Chick 