Very nice, Darren. You've made the products look quite attractive. On the cardboard box subject, I'd brighten the front more than the top since presumably the emphasis should be that all-important product label.
I don't like the fade-to-white look of the bowl and brush, but that's a personal pref. Why not leave the background black? If you are going to try using the Bowens stuff I'd highly recommend you get a radio trigger kit. They aren't necessarily pricey (I use Amazon/eBay ones for $10 each) and they make setup a whole lot easier. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
