This term I was faced with the challenge of shooting close ups of quite possibly the most shiny surface of all; a very (might I stress very?) reflective silver, metal alarm clock. Since I have never worked with studio lighting and photography until this term, I didn't really know what to expect. What I expected to be a 30-minute max shoot turned into a 2-hour shoot. First of all, the set up was quite strenuous and time consuming in itself. My set up consisted of a white seamless backdrop, a multitude of boom bars and clamps, a white sheet turned into a tent (so the clock reflected the white sheet instead of the room), mounds of tape, a garden of lights, and me and my camera, which were also draped under the sheet. Even with this crazy set up, in every shot I could see myself with my camera. There was a crystal clear reflection of me awkwardly posed trying to get the right angle of the clock. While this was somewhat amusing to me, I knew that this is not what editors etc wanted. So spent a while messing around with the sheets and lights trying to not be reflected in the clock. This shoot was needless to say very frustrating and taught me that some of the "simplest" shoots are actually the hardest. From now on I will never take any shot for granted. So much work and time goes into studio work, and I now have an unprecedented respect for it.