Assignment 2 - report & analysis

We kept the available light as the main. It worked well in creating a nice lighting for the shot. However, available light only got us so far. We added an umbrella coming from the left to kick light into the front of the sandwich and then had a bald light coming from the top right to bring out some contrast in the salad.
We tried a couple of apertures, but finally settled on f 9 to keep the front half of the sandwich in focus. ISO was 200 and shutter speed was set to 1/5 second.
The cook did a great job of putting our sandwich together. Lots of extra bacon in it. Truly brought it to life. Our lighting test sammy was good but needed a bit more content. When we ordered the real plate, we only asked for more filling and to keep the rest the same. But having not mentioned the angle of the cut, we ended up getting a sandwich cut on the opposite angle. No biggie. Worse things have happened to better people.
If I could shoot again, I would have put an item on the left side to fill a bit of the empty area. A glass of water, for instance, would have filled that space without taking away from the food. Or maybe even salt & pepper shakers. Looking at the cover now, there's too much space under the O and the U of gourmet. The Sandwich could be moved over on the cover, but I felt like it messed too much with the text.

Assignment 2 - lighting test

We stuck with ambient light for the shot and it worked. The light on the background created a nice gradient with the red. We need to change the angle on which the sandwich is cut. It needs to be going the other way. We'll be bringing lights to the actual shoot to punch some light into the front of the sandwich and the salad. Otherwise, we're sticking with a simple set up.
We shot very close to the sandwich, around a foot away, at a slightly wide angle at 40mm.

Assignment 1 - the shoot!

When we did the original shoot, the only issue we has with it was that the face came out a little dark. We had used a reflector originally to kick in a little light in the eyes. But it wasn't enough. So on the day of the shoot, we added a speedlight with a small shoot through umbrella to add some light to the face. With that light, we no longer needed the reflector. So we got rid of it. Aside from that, the lighting setup remained the same. Not mentioned in the original write up, the ambient light at ISO 200 and f8 required a shutter speed of 1 second. So it was a non-factor.
The main problem we faced in the shoot was that the blinds where we originally had set up were not cooperating. Fortunately, we had an identical setup 20 feet away. Not usually going to be the case.