Cupcake shoot feb 16th

I know this post is quite late but with organizing my posts i have been a little here and there.
Right so earlier on in my post i explained the design i was going to use but forgot to explain the shoot.Well thankfully that week i had taken the Sunday and Monday night of work because i had hours to take. So i was a little lost as to what to do, so on the Monday i went and bought some ingredients for the cupcakes. I then came home and set to making the cupcakes. For some reason all my cupcakes were rising lopsided. But yet i pursued my cup cake making and after making about 22 cupcakes i got all of one cupcake to rise perfectly in the center. I then iced the cupcakes and left the lime and mint fresh to cut and add the day of the shoot. So the cupcakes were ready for one day that week. I then realized for food photography you don't need the cover or a major area of the studio. So When i woke on Tuesday morning i rang UNI up and asked if i could be fitted in anywhere just to do some little food photography.

They looked at there tabel and there was meant to be a girl painting the cove so i was alright to be using the back end of studio one i just had to co into uni for about 3.30. Well i got the train to uni armed with all the things i needed. I had an hour to spare so i went and bought granite blocks because i thought they would look nice reflecting the reflection of the cupcakes, a plate and a cup.

When i got back to uni it was about time for me to set up. Now with this being the first time on my own in a studio i was flipping a little not had used capture one before or the haselblad on my own. So i set up capture one and that started going wrong it kept cropping my image and turning them diagonally. Also the lens i was using was not getting close enough and working on you're own and having to maneuver things was very difficult(not to self next time bring helper).

I started flapping because nothing was going right everything was coming out to be honest looking crappy. Thankfully but unfortunately for emma randall on my class(THE LIFE SAVER) she came to my rescue. She was meant to be doing a shoot whilst at uni but the group who were in befroe her over ran into her slot and she was left with such little time and was forced to cancel her shoot. So emma which was really nice of her decided to help me. She explained i didn't have the right extensions on my lens hence the reason i was getting crappy shots. I asked at the store if they had any in just as my luck they didn't but after trying to pursue with my image 20 minutes later someone dropped the extension tubes off so i was able to use them.

I then decided to decorate the cakes with the lime and mint and started shooting we found a teacloth in the bit box which went well(i had previously looked for a white and green teacloth but they were all unsuitable or gordy) although i wanted a square plate i bought a round plate and wanted a square one,morrisons didn't have a white square plate. they had black cream but not whit!(one again my luck) thankfully they had the perfect square plate in the bit box i brought icing sugar to decorate the plate and included the cup into the background to give it a more "cafe" theme. Emma also helped me maneuver the objects which was much easier than moving them my self to much out of the image or in the wrong direction.

In the end i got a good few that i could work with i went home worked on them and now i have one final portrait cafe image this will be found later on in my blogg alongside my jewelry image and makeup image.