11.06.2012

TAOP.

Part Five: Narrative and Illustration.

Exercise: A narrative Picture Essay.

I start this exercise with a single picture that tells a story.  The picture is of two boys approaching the finishing tape at the end of a race.  The story is in their faces.  One is about to win and looking supremely confident in his ability and the other grimacing with determination and effort.

The picture essay is about cookery and follows my wife’s progress as she makes a jam filled sponge cake.

I drew out a story board and we spoke about how I could get pictures of the action.

The first picture is of the lighting I used for the set.  It consisted of two radio controlled strobes suspended from the cupboards with their light reflected first off aluminium foil and then up into the white underside of the cupboards.  This gave a controlled lighting area that allowed a little shadow modeling.

Story Board.

Add caption

Lighting.

Ingredients.

Weighing.

Sieving.

Mixing.

 Lining the tins with cut grease proof pater.

Filling the tins.

Setting the oven to correct temperature.

Removing the sponges from the oven.

Applying the filling.

The finished jam filled sponge.

Good enough to eat.