Web page merchandise photoshoot with Nikon D3000 camera

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Iveta Lo?mele

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Hello all smart Nikonites!

I've been given a task( which seemed a pretty simple at the beginning if i may add) to take pictures of merchandise for our upcoming website. Boy, was i wrong! Since im just a begginer with all the photagraphy thing, most if the time i dont even know what im doing! Thas sad, yes, i know... AAAAnyways...So the pictures are mostly clothing, we have the mannequin, lights, camera, tripod, white background-all basics that you require for decent pics. But the problem is i dont know what setting should i use? Maybe some of you photagrapy people could enlighten me ;) As soon as i think im getting somewhere with one coulour t-shirt, i put a lighter colour t-shirt on and all the background gets darker. The idea is i need to get all the pics with exactly the same colour background ( which would be the white of the wall).
Any suggestions to what settings or what way should i set up my Nikon D3000 camera? Any suggestions will be appreciated ;)
 
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jwintermoyer

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I've only been into photography for about 2 yrs now, but when I first started I was told, and it worked pretty good, was to take a photo on "auto" first, look at the setting your camera set, then mimic it in your manual setting. It might be a quick way to determine your manual settings.


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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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As long as the lighting remains the same then the settings should not change. Lie ^^^^ said. Shoot once in Auto or Program and see what it did. The set the camera on Manual and shoot. get this one shot right and then all the others should be shot the same way. Be sure to use a aperture small enough to get good depth of field. F8 might be a good place to start.
 
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jherring002

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Are you using flash?

If so, the way that I have done shoots to get the same look is to set my camera to manual.

Set your shutter speed to the max shutter speed sync (mines 1/200th)

ISO I leave at 100

Aperture (play with this. I like f2.8-7.1 range depending on what I'm shooting)

Set your white balance to flash if you are shooting jpeg.

Now set your flash to manual and take some test shots adjusting the flash power and nothing else until you get the look you want.

Once you get the look you want, you may want to put some tape down to mark where you have things set up. Moving things will give you a different look.

Also if you have 2 flashes, you may want to use one of them to flash the background to get that clean white look. If only one flash is available, move the flash back as far as possible as the light falloff is not as great the farther the light source is away from the subject.

Some rules when using flash:

Shutter doesn't control flash power, only ambient light. So if you want to include some light other than the flash slow down your shutter speed to like 1/60th.

Change only one setting at a time and take a shot to see what it does.

If flash is over powered and blowing out the subject, camera settings aren't what you want to change. Change your flash power or your flash distance.

Hope this helps.

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jherring002

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BTW. Here are some shots I took using flash

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