Test Shoot

These images are from my test shoot, I wanted to experiment with photographic the cups before I finalized my ideas and did my final shoot. I think that this helped to show me what might look good in terms of angles and what kind of props I might use.

I filled the cup with hot water so that it would create steam coming from the top of the cup. I was originally just going to take the cups down to the college canteen and experiment with them, I passed an empty plain black display shelf on my way and thought that the steam would look good against it as it would be able to be seen clearly. I then placed the cup on the shelf and took some photographs. I like the idea of this image but it is blurry and slightly too bright as the camera obviously wasn't set to the right shutter speed. Another thing I would change would be to turn the cup around as I think that the line down it makes the image look slightly messy, although I do like that the 'Caution:Hot!' text is visable - this works well with the steam.

These two images are my favourites from this shoot. I used the idea of photographing the steam coming from the cup whilst keeping the 'Caution: Hot!' text visable from the first image. Again, if I could change something it would be to position the cup differently so that the line wasn't visable to make the image look slightly untidy, but I think that the photo still works well regardless. I like the shallow depth of field in this photograph, where only the cup is in focus and the rest of the image gradually gets more and more blurry.