This is a bit of a departure for me, but I'm attempting to up my game in some of the product photography I do at my place of employment. Most of what we have done has been quick-n-dirty single on camera flash and then remove all the background in Photoshop (which can be tedious work).
For this product (which is for hair stylists) I wanted something that looked a bit more "high fashion". So I went with a black background and splashed some color on it for this one. I was going for the product reflection below the product look and used a 36" square overhead light panel that I fashioned out of PVC and a shower liner. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/12110216206/ (This box is a mock-up, so doesn't look perfect, but you get the idea). The 2nd shot is combination of color, black, and transparent which is a bit of a challenge to photograph. The overhead panel does a nice job, when placed properly of giving you those big reflections that look "rich". I'm going to try to reshoot this on Monday on a white tabletop, which should help fill in the deep shadows on the colored bowl. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/12110209376/ Comments and criticism welcome. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
