Fruit Lighting Techniques

For this task we worked in a group, me Sara and Jenna, we shared a table with lights and helped one another taking it in turns to take a picture of our fruit with each lighting technique. I chose to use a squash for my fruit, although back light wasn't too obvious with mine so I used Jenna's pomegranete to show the technique with this one.

This first image was taken with one light and a softbox, with a 45/45 degree lighting technique. The result of this lighting was:

Next we took images using a top light. This is one of the more flattering lighting techniques as there are some nice highlights on the fruit. Although the softbox was reflected a little too much in the table.

Next we used a back light, although with my fruit wasn't as obvious so this is Jenna's pomegranate. I feel this had the most interesting effect on the fruit as it cast an interesting shadow beneath it.

The next image taken was to create a high key shot of the fruit, to do this the background had to be slightly over exposed so it was very white yet the fruit had to be correctly exposed, the result was:


The final image we took was to create a low key shot, to do this we used the large light tent with a black backdrop to create an image with a black background that is underexposed yet the fruit correctly exposed, the result was: