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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823936" data-attributes="member: 53455">I know this is not a very exciting shot, but I meant to upload it to demonstrate what I hope is a good example of technical product photography. There is no glamour there, you simply need to show an industrial tool and what customers need to know about it —which does not mean you cannot try and light it in a more “artistic” (I am always very careful when using that word) manner...For the last 10 or 12 years of her career, my wife worked as HR Director for a French company that I dubbed “the Hermès of the glass-making industry”, in reference to the luxury brand (<a href="https://www.hermes.com/us/en/" target="_blank">see here</a>). That company made highly specialized, often custom-made, always extremely expensive tools for glass-making companies, and just like Hermès, their products were in such demand that customers basically lined up on the parking lot waiting to be allowed to buy them! I worked for and/or counseled pretty successful companies in my professional life, and I have never seen anything like that anywhere else in the industrial world. Anyway, at one point I was commissioned to photograph their whole line of products, and this was one of the photos.Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR macro lens, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting, single exposure.[ATTACH=full]410028[/ATTACH]</blockquote>