For my products assignment I decided to do fishing gear as it was something a little different. I wanted to try and show the images in sort of outdoor environments but obviously done in the studio. For this shot of the cod lure I grabbed a few fish tank rocks and drift wood to use as the setting. My first shoot of the lure I had it sitting directly on the wood as I thought it would look kinda natural, like a lure sitting on a fallen tree near a river waiting to be attached to a line. It looked pretty tacky as you can see below.
For the second shoot I decided to drop the background/environment right out of focus by hanging the lure with fishing line about a foot in front of the background. I used two softboxes to light the lure. One from the front to light the body of the lure and to give a bit of reflection to show its shape, and a another from behind/side to illuminate the bib of the lure. I then cloned out the fishing line in photoshop later. I think the shot is much better than the first but could use some work. I found the depth of field to be amazingly small even shooting at f16.
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