Photography

I started by setting up the camera and shooting area for the double page spread shot. We used two lights, one with a red jell and one with a blue jell, and positioned them precisely. Here's what our setup looked like.

I used my Cannon 600d with a Cannon 18-55mm lens. Here's the settings I shot at. We achieved these setting through trial and error.

Setting up the lights and camera look a lot of time, but I had some help from my friends.

For the white background shots, I used a simple 3 point lighting setup.

I literally took hundreds of photos trying to get the right one, here are my top picks:

There's also a LOT of out of focus and over/under exposed pictures I took whilst experimenting with different settings and lighting. I looked through and found some of the best and here they are: (click to see full size)