Post your "Product Photography" Big or Small.
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Michael J.
Senior Member
Water-bottles I bought a the night market - My daughter is looking what I am doing 
Is this product photography?
At this time I didn't try RAW - Today I will do it by such a difficult light and subject.
Is this product photography?At this time I didn't try RAW - Today I will do it by such a difficult light and subject.
Salut, hello Vincent,
In this case, any background that would not conflict with the subject in terms or
colour, size, details, texture, etc, would have been a receivable choice.
When colour (but not tonal range) is the only conflicting element, colour replacement
or even B&W rendition are explorable options.
The posted picture is, in terms of composition and layout, impeccable!
Have a good day…
Hello Ironwood, I just went back to your here stated thread and after looking
it over carefully, I think your idea in the post 21 is really good and the best of
Ironwood as of yet!
Given some tweaking with a Pol, directional light, and some very minor details,
your approach in terms of design, aesthetic and communication is greatly pro-
missing!
You're up to something good, man!
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A decorative frame was asked by a bathroom supply store in the city.
They wanted to use it in the display room of the high end section of the store.
The two first were proposed and the third is the final edition they wanted!
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A decorative frame was asked by a bathroom supply store in the city.
They wanted to use it in the display room of the high end section of the store.
The two first were proposed and the third is the final edition they wanted!
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You're right, but this is what they wanted to pay for:
Old-stylish, intimate, woman like… that kind of things.
And the owner of the shop IS a woman!
Have a good time!
Angelos Ballao
New member
Light-painting on a product.
HI Kodiak, post 21 was where I tried using the greeting card for a background.
Do you think this is better than the plainer backgrounds ?
I get mixed responses to the different backgrounds, and I am in two minds about it. The greeting card gives the photo some atmosphere and can give the pen some meaning to the viewer. While with the plain background it is about nothing but the pen, the pen must speak for itself.
Pol, are you referring here to the polarising filter?
I havent used that filter for my pen photos for a while now, do you think I should go back to using it ?
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Hello Ironwood,
The ambiguity you are facing comes from not clearly understanding the purpose,
the intent of the communication in a document and the strategies that can be used.
These are guide lines not rules or laws!
The NO or PLAIN background is used as part of a catalogue with the job to identify,
differentiate, classify a given product from the others in a same catalogue.
The DECOR background is your salesman or sales pitch… the one with the
"I-wanna-have-this" effect!.
Everybody will "feel" the presence of tarragon in a dish, some will like and some not.
I never heard of anyone using purposely a lot of it, like some use salt or chilli!
So it goes with specular lights: it must be but it must be controlled!
Your pens, by their nature, have a lot of reflective surfaces. It is, of course,
your right to decide to let them run wild or control them. Nothing is right and
nothing is wrong in the making process… but when the final proof is on the
table, there you will see the effect it will have and realize that there is a better
and a no so good.
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When I proposed my boys to do the 9V battery (post #1), to teach them how
to do it, I took the strategy to make this simple and ordinary object look like
something extraordinary by means of simple but efficient visual effects!
Hello Ironwood,
The ambiguity you are facing comes from not clearly understanding the purpose,
the intent of the communication in a document and the strategies that can be used.
These are guide lines not rules or laws!
The NO or PLAIN background is used as part of a catalogue with the job to identify,
differentiate, classify a given product from the others in a same catalogue.
The DECOR background is your salesman or sales pitch… the one with the
"I-wanna-have-this" effect!.
Everybody will "feel" the presence of tarragon in a dish, some will like and some not.
I never heard of anyone using purposely a lot of it, like some use salt or chilli!
So it goes with specular lights: it must be but it must be controlled!
Your pens, by their nature, have a lot of reflective surfaces. It is, of course,
your right to decide to let them run wild or control them. Nothing is right and
nothing is wrong in the making process… but when the final proof is on the
table, there you will see the effect it will have and realize that there is a better
and a no so good.
•••••••
When I proposed my boys to do the 9V battery (post #1), to teach them how
to do it, I took the strategy to make this simple and ordinary object look like
something extraordinary by means of simple but efficient visual effects!
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This is a most difficult way to work!
Hi Angelos,
In every stage of the production of a photograph, one aims at a given result that
is his the head. The most valuable feature of any approach is predictability!
Since you are not a robot (you cannot reproduce the same gesture exactly over
and over again) you are not predictable in that sense.
Controlling the specular lights, in this shot, would have been most critical!
Using a pol filter would be questionable since you are not predictable in using
the light source…
I wonder if light painting was the right strategy for that subject?
What material is this,…wax?
This sort of photography is deceptively difficult, especially if done the old skool way without digital effects. I really admire the work here! I find even "simple" eBay photography a challenge to achieve without reflective "hot spots" or unwanted shadows. I have no equipment for this sort of thing, so make do with scraps of bedsheet on a table in the natural light of our porch. It's fun however, playing with depth of field and composition.
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Hi everyone,
This spring was the first time the boys really showed interest in photography.
We setup the studio for a shoot and they would be my assistant. Their duty is
ro foresee my every needs, stay up with the ball so to say!
I told them everything that went through my mind and what's in my trick box!
This SLK model car was the subject.
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Hi everyone,
This spring was the first time the boys really showed interest in photography.
We setup the studio for a shoot and they would be my assistant. Their duty is
ro foresee my every needs, stay up with the ball so to say!
I told them everything that went through my mind and what's in my trick box!
This SLK model car was the subject.
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mr2_serious
Senior Member
ooooh, finally something I can play in! Hehe. These were part of my portfolio for Illustrative class.
Michael J.
Senior Member
What I like about this difficult shot, you can see every detail even inside the car. The reflection is the point on the i. The beautiful gray is a perfect match to the black background, the red comes out in the right level.