Today I took part in another studio based workshop, once again there was two different studio set ups for me to use each with slightly different lighting set ups. The main difference between the studio set ups was the backgrounds (one with a white background and the other with a black background). Each studio set up gave me different results due to the difference in equipment. The main benefit of this workshop was getting to use the Hasselblad cameras. Getting the opportunity to use Hasselblad to shoot in the studio was a privilege. The workshop looked at relating people to objects so during this workshop I focused on simple portraits.

Because of my artist research linking to collage work for my final piece, I decided to use this studio session to focus on capturing simple portraits. I wanted to focus on plain portraits because I am later doing to use the photographs from this workshop and create a series of different collages, deconstructing the face of the model and putting the print back together again. After shooting in the workshop I chose one photograph to edit in the second half of the workshop. In the afternoon I took part in an advanced photoshop lesson. I was taught a number of very useful photoshop skills that will come in handy in the future, these skills included; burning, curves, shot heal and layers. During this photoshop session I was also introduced to Wacom tablets. Wacom tablets are a handy tool which makes editing a lot easier and a lot more precise.

Overall I found this workshop to be really useful especially the photoshop workshop. I now have a greater understanding of the importance of photoshop and how I can improve my work through the use of photoshop. Below are the photographs I took from todays workshop sessions and some of the outcomes I produced during this workshop.