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I am starting my own business and need to take photos of my products. However, the lighting in my apartment is not that great and it is also cloudy and rainy outside, so no sunlight in here or anything. The only thing that remotely works is the flash on my camera, however in most cases it alters the color of my products.
I just took a picture of a headband (without flash) and the shadows looks so bad. The flower casts a huge shadow on the headband. I know I can't edit it in Photoshop either.I will post the image below.
I am on a budget so I can't afford any fancy equipment. All I have is an iPhone camera and a white tablecloth to use as the background.
Any suggestions? 
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I am starting my own business and need to take photos of my products. However, the lighting in my apartment is not that great and it is also cloudy and rainy outside, so no sunlight in here or anything. The only thing that remotely works is the flash on my camera, however in most cases it alters the color of my products.
I just took a picture of a headband (without flash) and the shadows looks so bad. The flower casts a huge shadow on the headband. I know I can't edit it in Photoshop either.I will post the image below.
I am on a budget so I can't afford any fancy equipment. All I have is an iPhone camera and a white tablecloth to use as the background.
Any suggestions?
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I am starting my own business and need to take photos of my products. However, the lighting in my apartment is not that great and it is also cloudy and rainy outside, so no sunlight in here or anything. The only thing that remotely works is the flash on my camera, however in most cases it alters the color of my products.
I just took a picture of a headband (without flash) and the shadows looks so bad. The flower casts a huge shadow on the headband. I know I can't edit it in Photoshop either.I will post the image below.
I am on a budget so I can't afford any fancy equipment. All I have is an iPhone camera and a white tablecloth to use as the background.
Any suggestions?
lighting product-photography shadows
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I am starting my own business and need to take photos of my products. However, the lighting in my apartment is not that great and it is also cloudy and rainy outside, so no sunlight in here or anything. The only thing that remotely works is the flash on my camera, however in most cases it alters the color of my products.
I just took a picture of a headband (without flash) and the shadows looks so bad. The flower casts a huge shadow on the headband. I know I can't edit it in Photoshop either.I will post the image below.
I am on a budget so I can't afford any fancy equipment. All I have is an iPhone camera and a white tablecloth to use as the background.
Any suggestions?
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Construct an omnidirectional chamber. This can be a tent constructed using a bedsheet or a rectangular cavity constructed using snow-white Styrofoam sheets from Home Depot or white poster paper. You place the object to be photographed under the tent on inside the cavity. In your case, a tent might be better. You then purchase several R-30 reflector flood bulbs with pin-up fixture. Light the tent from the outside. The tent disperses and diffused the light. Such a lash-up can exclude shadows.
One flag on the field: For the most part, photography is a 2-dimention media. Often shadows are necessary as they provide an illusion of depth.
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Let's assume you have no equipment at all & are not going to be able to get any right now - then a cloudy day is the best you can hope for.
A sunny day will make hard shadows, cloudy days don't.
Cloudy days are also a 'good white'. Artificial light is a bit of an unknown factor, which your camera will have a harder time guessing at, especially if you use more than one light source.
If it's not actually raining, then take your setup outdoors, where there will be almost no shadows at all. If you can't do that, then get as close to the window as you can.
'Broad light is good light'.
If your window has net curtains or similar, use those to further diffuse the light from outside.
Orient your backcloth & product so that any minimal shadows fall behind the product, rather than across it.
This was taken on an iPhone, next to the window. Not perfect, but an improvement on shadowing.
Two minutes in photoshop & the happy chap is ready to go...
If your product is on your backcloth & you have no controllable light source, you are never going to be able to knock it out easily, but you can work with it.
The trick to knocking out to white is to have your backdrop lit from behind - which you're not going to easily be able to do without more equipment - & also to get it to blur you need to elevate the product on something clear, so the product is in focus, but the backdrop is not.
[very] quick attempt at knockout, you could do far better with more care & attention than I took...
The bear was too big for this one - this little guy is only about 8cm [3"] tall
answered 1 hour ago
Tetsujin
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As for blurring the background, did portrait mode make any difference?
– Hueco
44 mins ago
Interesting thought, but I don't have a dual lens iPhone, only a 6S, so not an option unfortunately. Would be interesting to see what one could do, though, if anyone has access to a dual lens, a cloudy day & a small soft toy on a cheap photographer's backdrop laid on the sofa ;)
– Tetsujin
40 mins ago
Yea me neither. My wife does though...I'll have to see if it makes a diff. And yea, living in the pac nw this time of year...I've got clouds for days
– Hueco
38 mins ago
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Product photography is an independent and broad field of photography so if you want to achieve profesional results you should invest in learning how to do it, a camera that can control an external flash and couple of flashes with umbrellas and tripod.... or pay someone who knows and have the equipment to do it.
However, you may try two tricks and could be good enough for a small online shop:
1st: Take your products to your local printing / xerox shop and ask the clerk to scan them. Depending on the size of the product and the width it can render very nice results with soft and uniform light and strong defocus towards a black background. Google it to see samples.
2nd: Get a flashlight that gives you a white light. Any cheap one works, just try to get one that has white light like a the ones with a led bulb. Download a camera app for your iphone that allows you to take slow shuter pictures, meaning pictures that last for at least 5 sec. Check in the app store, there are plenty of them that are free.
Place your phone over something that holds it on the top while your product is on the bottom so you dont hold the iphone with your hands, like a shoebox or the border of a table, being your phone at the edge of the table with the camera over it and the product in the floor.
Then turn off the light of the room and be sure to be in darkness.
Set the exposure in the camera app at 5 sec, press the shoot button and turn on your flashlight and move it during the 5 sec over the top and sides of your product. Move your flashlight all the time around the product.
Experiment with different shutter speed setting, try lighting the product from different angles and distances from the flashlight to the product.
This is a field of photography named flashpainting and it is fun, so enjoy it!!
Good luck and... share samples of the pics! :)
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I'm chiming in to introduce you to: the tub trick.
Tubs are great:
- they're white
- they're shiny
Combined, you get a place to set things that'll bounce around the light and provide for a mostly white background.
Here's my tub complete with window lighting:
And here's the shot, placing the item on the rail and cropping out the rest:
I did use the Snapseed App to slightly brighten the whole image and to do the crop. As you can see, shadows are soft (go window light go!) and the tub made for a decently white background.
More work and different technique will be required if you want the uber-white background type of product photo.
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Construct an omnidirectional chamber. This can be a tent constructed using a bedsheet or a rectangular cavity constructed using snow-white Styrofoam sheets from Home Depot or white poster paper. You place the object to be photographed under the tent on inside the cavity. In your case, a tent might be better. You then purchase several R-30 reflector flood bulbs with pin-up fixture. Light the tent from the outside. The tent disperses and diffused the light. Such a lash-up can exclude shadows.
One flag on the field: For the most part, photography is a 2-dimention media. Often shadows are necessary as they provide an illusion of depth.
answered 37 mins ago
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Construct an omnidirectional chamber. This can be a tent constructed using a bedsheet or a rectangular cavity constructed using snow-white Styrofoam sheets from Home Depot or white poster paper. You place the object to be photographed under the tent on inside the cavity. In your case, a tent might be better. You then purchase several R-30 reflector flood bulbs with pin-up fixture. Light the tent from the outside. The tent disperses and diffused the light. Such a lash-up can exclude shadows.
One flag on the field: For the most part, photography is a 2-dimention media. Often shadows are necessary as they provide an illusion of depth.
answered 37 mins ago
Alan Marcus
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Construct an omnidirectional chamber. This can be a tent constructed using a bedsheet or a rectangular cavity constructed using snow-white Styrofoam sheets from Home Depot or white poster paper. You place the object to be photographed under the tent on inside the cavity. In your case, a tent might be better. You then purchase several R-30 reflector flood bulbs with pin-up fixture. Light the tent from the outside. The tent disperses and diffused the light. Such a lash-up can exclude shadows.
One flag on the field: For the most part, photography is a 2-dimention media. Often shadows are necessary as they provide an illusion of depth.
answered 37 mins ago
Alan Marcus
23.5k12755
Construct an omnidirectional chamber. This can be a tent constructed using a bedsheet or a rectangular cavity constructed using snow-white Styrofoam sheets from Home Depot or white poster paper. You place the object to be photographed under the tent on inside the cavity. In your case, a tent might be better. You then purchase several R-30 reflector flood bulbs with pin-up fixture. Light the tent from the outside. The tent disperses and diffused the light. Such a lash-up can exclude shadows.
One flag on the field: For the most part, photography is a 2-dimention media. Often shadows are necessary as they provide an illusion of depth.
answered 37 mins ago
Alan Marcus
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answered 37 mins ago
Alan Marcus
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answered 37 mins ago
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answered 37 mins ago
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Let's assume you have no equipment at all & are not going to be able to get any right now - then a cloudy day is the best you can hope for.
A sunny day will make hard shadows, cloudy days don't.
Cloudy days are also a 'good white'. Artificial light is a bit of an unknown factor, which your camera will have a harder time guessing at, especially if you use more than one light source.
If it's not actually raining, then take your setup outdoors, where there will be almost no shadows at all. If you can't do that, then get as close to the window as you can.
'Broad light is good light'.
If your window has net curtains or similar, use those to further diffuse the light from outside.
Orient your backcloth & product so that any minimal shadows fall behind the product, rather than across it.
This was taken on an iPhone, next to the window. Not perfect, but an improvement on shadowing.
Two minutes in photoshop & the happy chap is ready to go...
If your product is on your backcloth & you have no controllable light source, you are never going to be able to knock it out easily, but you can work with it.
The trick to knocking out to white is to have your backdrop lit from behind - which you're not going to easily be able to do without more equipment - & also to get it to blur you need to elevate the product on something clear, so the product is in focus, but the backdrop is not.
[very] quick attempt at knockout, you could do far better with more care & attention than I took...
The bear was too big for this one - this little guy is only about 8cm [3"] tall
answered 1 hour ago
Tetsujin
7,08321842
As for blurring the background, did portrait mode make any difference?
– Hueco
44 mins ago
Interesting thought, but I don't have a dual lens iPhone, only a 6S, so not an option unfortunately. Would be interesting to see what one could do, though, if anyone has access to a dual lens, a cloudy day & a small soft toy on a cheap photographer's backdrop laid on the sofa ;)
– Tetsujin
40 mins ago
Yea me neither. My wife does though...I'll have to see if it makes a diff. And yea, living in the pac nw this time of year...I've got clouds for days
– Hueco
38 mins ago
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up vote
2
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Let's assume you have no equipment at all & are not going to be able to get any right now - then a cloudy day is the best you can hope for.
A sunny day will make hard shadows, cloudy days don't.
Cloudy days are also a 'good white'. Artificial light is a bit of an unknown factor, which your camera will have a harder time guessing at, especially if you use more than one light source.
If it's not actually raining, then take your setup outdoors, where there will be almost no shadows at all. If you can't do that, then get as close to the window as you can.
'Broad light is good light'.
If your window has net curtains or similar, use those to further diffuse the light from outside.
Orient your backcloth & product so that any minimal shadows fall behind the product, rather than across it.
This was taken on an iPhone, next to the window. Not perfect, but an improvement on shadowing.
Two minutes in photoshop & the happy chap is ready to go...
If your product is on your backcloth & you have no controllable light source, you are never going to be able to knock it out easily, but you can work with it.
The trick to knocking out to white is to have your backdrop lit from behind - which you're not going to easily be able to do without more equipment - & also to get it to blur you need to elevate the product on something clear, so the product is in focus, but the backdrop is not.
[very] quick attempt at knockout, you could do far better with more care & attention than I took...
The bear was too big for this one - this little guy is only about 8cm [3"] tall
answered 1 hour ago
Tetsujin
7,08321842
As for blurring the background, did portrait mode make any difference?
– Hueco
44 mins ago
Interesting thought, but I don't have a dual lens iPhone, only a 6S, so not an option unfortunately. Would be interesting to see what one could do, though, if anyone has access to a dual lens, a cloudy day & a small soft toy on a cheap photographer's backdrop laid on the sofa ;)
– Tetsujin
40 mins ago
Yea me neither. My wife does though...I'll have to see if it makes a diff. And yea, living in the pac nw this time of year...I've got clouds for days
– Hueco
38 mins ago
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up vote
2
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up vote
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Let's assume you have no equipment at all & are not going to be able to get any right now - then a cloudy day is the best you can hope for.
A sunny day will make hard shadows, cloudy days don't.
Cloudy days are also a 'good white'. Artificial light is a bit of an unknown factor, which your camera will have a harder time guessing at, especially if you use more than one light source.
If it's not actually raining, then take your setup outdoors, where there will be almost no shadows at all. If you can't do that, then get as close to the window as you can.
'Broad light is good light'.
If your window has net curtains or similar, use those to further diffuse the light from outside.
Orient your backcloth & product so that any minimal shadows fall behind the product, rather than across it.
This was taken on an iPhone, next to the window. Not perfect, but an improvement on shadowing.
Two minutes in photoshop & the happy chap is ready to go...
If your product is on your backcloth & you have no controllable light source, you are never going to be able to knock it out easily, but you can work with it.
The trick to knocking out to white is to have your backdrop lit from behind - which you're not going to easily be able to do without more equipment - & also to get it to blur you need to elevate the product on something clear, so the product is in focus, but the backdrop is not.
[very] quick attempt at knockout, you could do far better with more care & attention than I took...
The bear was too big for this one - this little guy is only about 8cm [3"] tall
answered 1 hour ago
Tetsujin
7,08321842
Let's assume you have no equipment at all & are not going to be able to get any right now - then a cloudy day is the best you can hope for.
A sunny day will make hard shadows, cloudy days don't.
Cloudy days are also a 'good white'. Artificial light is a bit of an unknown factor, which your camera will have a harder time guessing at, especially if you use more than one light source.
If it's not actually raining, then take your setup outdoors, where there will be almost no shadows at all. If you can't do that, then get as close to the window as you can.
'Broad light is good light'.
If your window has net curtains or similar, use those to further diffuse the light from outside.
Orient your backcloth & product so that any minimal shadows fall behind the product, rather than across it.
This was taken on an iPhone, next to the window. Not perfect, but an improvement on shadowing.
Two minutes in photoshop & the happy chap is ready to go...
If your product is on your backcloth & you have no controllable light source, you are never going to be able to knock it out easily, but you can work with it.
The trick to knocking out to white is to have your backdrop lit from behind - which you're not going to easily be able to do without more equipment - & also to get it to blur you need to elevate the product on something clear, so the product is in focus, but the backdrop is not.
[very] quick attempt at knockout, you could do far better with more care & attention than I took...
The bear was too big for this one - this little guy is only about 8cm [3"] tall
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As for blurring the background, did portrait mode make any difference?
– Hueco
44 mins ago
Interesting thought, but I don't have a dual lens iPhone, only a 6S, so not an option unfortunately. Would be interesting to see what one could do, though, if anyone has access to a dual lens, a cloudy day & a small soft toy on a cheap photographer's backdrop laid on the sofa ;)
– Tetsujin
40 mins ago
Yea me neither. My wife does though...I'll have to see if it makes a diff. And yea, living in the pac nw this time of year...I've got clouds for days
– Hueco
38 mins ago
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As for blurring the background, did portrait mode make any difference?
– Hueco
44 mins ago
Interesting thought, but I don't have a dual lens iPhone, only a 6S, so not an option unfortunately. Would be interesting to see what one could do, though, if anyone has access to a dual lens, a cloudy day & a small soft toy on a cheap photographer's backdrop laid on the sofa ;)
– Tetsujin
40 mins ago
Yea me neither. My wife does though...I'll have to see if it makes a diff. And yea, living in the pac nw this time of year...I've got clouds for days
– Hueco
38 mins ago
As for blurring the background, did portrait mode make any difference?
– Hueco
44 mins ago
As for blurring the background, did portrait mode make any difference?
– Hueco
44 mins ago
Interesting thought, but I don't have a dual lens iPhone, only a 6S, so not an option unfortunately. Would be interesting to see what one could do, though, if anyone has access to a dual lens, a cloudy day & a small soft toy on a cheap photographer's backdrop laid on the sofa ;)
– Tetsujin
40 mins ago
Interesting thought, but I don't have a dual lens iPhone, only a 6S, so not an option unfortunately. Would be interesting to see what one could do, though, if anyone has access to a dual lens, a cloudy day & a small soft toy on a cheap photographer's backdrop laid on the sofa ;)
– Tetsujin
40 mins ago
Yea me neither. My wife does though...I'll have to see if it makes a diff. And yea, living in the pac nw this time of year...I've got clouds for days
– Hueco
38 mins ago
Yea me neither. My wife does though...I'll have to see if it makes a diff. And yea, living in the pac nw this time of year...I've got clouds for days
– Hueco
38 mins ago
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Product photography is an independent and broad field of photography so if you want to achieve profesional results you should invest in learning how to do it, a camera that can control an external flash and couple of flashes with umbrellas and tripod.... or pay someone who knows and have the equipment to do it.
However, you may try two tricks and could be good enough for a small online shop:
1st: Take your products to your local printing / xerox shop and ask the clerk to scan them. Depending on the size of the product and the width it can render very nice results with soft and uniform light and strong defocus towards a black background. Google it to see samples.
2nd: Get a flashlight that gives you a white light. Any cheap one works, just try to get one that has white light like a the ones with a led bulb. Download a camera app for your iphone that allows you to take slow shuter pictures, meaning pictures that last for at least 5 sec. Check in the app store, there are plenty of them that are free.
Place your phone over something that holds it on the top while your product is on the bottom so you dont hold the iphone with your hands, like a shoebox or the border of a table, being your phone at the edge of the table with the camera over it and the product in the floor.
Then turn off the light of the room and be sure to be in darkness.
Set the exposure in the camera app at 5 sec, press the shoot button and turn on your flashlight and move it during the 5 sec over the top and sides of your product. Move your flashlight all the time around the product.
Experiment with different shutter speed setting, try lighting the product from different angles and distances from the flashlight to the product.
This is a field of photography named flashpainting and it is fun, so enjoy it!!
Good luck and... share samples of the pics! :)
answered 1 hour ago
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Product photography is an independent and broad field of photography so if you want to achieve profesional results you should invest in learning how to do it, a camera that can control an external flash and couple of flashes with umbrellas and tripod.... or pay someone who knows and have the equipment to do it.
However, you may try two tricks and could be good enough for a small online shop:
1st: Take your products to your local printing / xerox shop and ask the clerk to scan them. Depending on the size of the product and the width it can render very nice results with soft and uniform light and strong defocus towards a black background. Google it to see samples.
2nd: Get a flashlight that gives you a white light. Any cheap one works, just try to get one that has white light like a the ones with a led bulb. Download a camera app for your iphone that allows you to take slow shuter pictures, meaning pictures that last for at least 5 sec. Check in the app store, there are plenty of them that are free.
Place your phone over something that holds it on the top while your product is on the bottom so you dont hold the iphone with your hands, like a shoebox or the border of a table, being your phone at the edge of the table with the camera over it and the product in the floor.
Then turn off the light of the room and be sure to be in darkness.
Set the exposure in the camera app at 5 sec, press the shoot button and turn on your flashlight and move it during the 5 sec over the top and sides of your product. Move your flashlight all the time around the product.
Experiment with different shutter speed setting, try lighting the product from different angles and distances from the flashlight to the product.
This is a field of photography named flashpainting and it is fun, so enjoy it!!
Good luck and... share samples of the pics! :)
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Product photography is an independent and broad field of photography so if you want to achieve profesional results you should invest in learning how to do it, a camera that can control an external flash and couple of flashes with umbrellas and tripod.... or pay someone who knows and have the equipment to do it.
However, you may try two tricks and could be good enough for a small online shop:
1st: Take your products to your local printing / xerox shop and ask the clerk to scan them. Depending on the size of the product and the width it can render very nice results with soft and uniform light and strong defocus towards a black background. Google it to see samples.
2nd: Get a flashlight that gives you a white light. Any cheap one works, just try to get one that has white light like a the ones with a led bulb. Download a camera app for your iphone that allows you to take slow shuter pictures, meaning pictures that last for at least 5 sec. Check in the app store, there are plenty of them that are free.
Place your phone over something that holds it on the top while your product is on the bottom so you dont hold the iphone with your hands, like a shoebox or the border of a table, being your phone at the edge of the table with the camera over it and the product in the floor.
Then turn off the light of the room and be sure to be in darkness.
Set the exposure in the camera app at 5 sec, press the shoot button and turn on your flashlight and move it during the 5 sec over the top and sides of your product. Move your flashlight all the time around the product.
Experiment with different shutter speed setting, try lighting the product from different angles and distances from the flashlight to the product.
This is a field of photography named flashpainting and it is fun, so enjoy it!!
Good luck and... share samples of the pics! :)
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Product photography is an independent and broad field of photography so if you want to achieve profesional results you should invest in learning how to do it, a camera that can control an external flash and couple of flashes with umbrellas and tripod.... or pay someone who knows and have the equipment to do it.
However, you may try two tricks and could be good enough for a small online shop:
1st: Take your products to your local printing / xerox shop and ask the clerk to scan them. Depending on the size of the product and the width it can render very nice results with soft and uniform light and strong defocus towards a black background. Google it to see samples.
2nd: Get a flashlight that gives you a white light. Any cheap one works, just try to get one that has white light like a the ones with a led bulb. Download a camera app for your iphone that allows you to take slow shuter pictures, meaning pictures that last for at least 5 sec. Check in the app store, there are plenty of them that are free.
Place your phone over something that holds it on the top while your product is on the bottom so you dont hold the iphone with your hands, like a shoebox or the border of a table, being your phone at the edge of the table with the camera over it and the product in the floor.
Then turn off the light of the room and be sure to be in darkness.
Set the exposure in the camera app at 5 sec, press the shoot button and turn on your flashlight and move it during the 5 sec over the top and sides of your product. Move your flashlight all the time around the product.
Experiment with different shutter speed setting, try lighting the product from different angles and distances from the flashlight to the product.
This is a field of photography named flashpainting and it is fun, so enjoy it!!
Good luck and... share samples of the pics! :)
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I'm chiming in to introduce you to: the tub trick.
Tubs are great:
- they're white
- they're shiny
Combined, you get a place to set things that'll bounce around the light and provide for a mostly white background.
Here's my tub complete with window lighting:
And here's the shot, placing the item on the rail and cropping out the rest:
I did use the Snapseed App to slightly brighten the whole image and to do the crop. As you can see, shadows are soft (go window light go!) and the tub made for a decently white background.
More work and different technique will be required if you want the uber-white background type of product photo.
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I'm chiming in to introduce you to: the tub trick.
Tubs are great:
- they're white
- they're shiny
Combined, you get a place to set things that'll bounce around the light and provide for a mostly white background.
Here's my tub complete with window lighting:
And here's the shot, placing the item on the rail and cropping out the rest:
I did use the Snapseed App to slightly brighten the whole image and to do the crop. As you can see, shadows are soft (go window light go!) and the tub made for a decently white background.
More work and different technique will be required if you want the uber-white background type of product photo.
answered 17 mins ago
Hueco
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up vote
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up vote
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I'm chiming in to introduce you to: the tub trick.
Tubs are great:
- they're white
- they're shiny
Combined, you get a place to set things that'll bounce around the light and provide for a mostly white background.
Here's my tub complete with window lighting:
And here's the shot, placing the item on the rail and cropping out the rest:
I did use the Snapseed App to slightly brighten the whole image and to do the crop. As you can see, shadows are soft (go window light go!) and the tub made for a decently white background.
More work and different technique will be required if you want the uber-white background type of product photo.
answered 17 mins ago
Hueco
8,83632143
I'm chiming in to introduce you to: the tub trick.
Tubs are great:
- they're white
- they're shiny
Combined, you get a place to set things that'll bounce around the light and provide for a mostly white background.
Here's my tub complete with window lighting:
And here's the shot, placing the item on the rail and cropping out the rest:
I did use the Snapseed App to slightly brighten the whole image and to do the crop. As you can see, shadows are soft (go window light go!) and the tub made for a decently white background.
More work and different technique will be required if you want the uber-white background type of product photo.
answered 17 mins ago
Hueco
8,83632143
answered 17 mins ago
Hueco
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answered 17 mins ago
Hueco
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answered 17 mins ago
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