Lighting Pt 2 (Fashion Photography): Printing Composition: Shoe Print

This is my contact sheet. The prints I chose have a black "x" in the corner. The leftmost picture was my shoe shot, the middle my accesory shot, and the right my clothing shot. Ap- 5.6 Filt- 3 Time- 60 I started out by working on my picture of Randal, my shoe shot. I began with the same settings as my contact sheet. Ap- 5.6 Filt- 3 Time- 60 This was too light, so I did a test strip with more time. Aperture- 5.6 Filter- 3 Time- 70-120

I continued adding more time, because it was still too light.

Aperture- 5.6 Filter- 3 Time- 120-220

180 looked good, so I tried a full print at 180 seconds.

Aperture- 5.6 Filter- 3 Time- 180

I then started working on my A3 print. I tried a full print at 320 (double the previous settings), but it was still too light, so I started doing test strips of the A3 paper.

Aperture- 5.6 Filter- 3 Time- 360

I then closed my aperture and raised my filter to try to filter out the grey. I tried reducing my time, but forgot to do the last 3 seconds of 300, so ended up with 297.

Aperture- 8 Filter- 5 Time- 297

I then did another test strip at higher times, since the previous was too dark.

Aperture- 8 Filter- 5 Time- 300 + 20...

I then tried opening my aperture again to 5.6 and reduced the time. (I forgot the 3 seconds again here).

Aperture- 5.6 Filter- 5 Time- 297

My final print was at 5.6 aperture, 5 filter, 215 seconds.