bazooka
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2009
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I have a desktop wallpaper of Tony Horton (of p90x fame) curling a dumbell and I knew I'd like to recreate that someday. With the BESP assignment to do a beverage product-type shot, I knew it'd be awsome to work that into the background to give the product a link to what it's used for... working out.
This shot took a few hours to get setup the way I wanted it, and even then I felt really restricted by the crappy clamp lights and space I had to work with (more on this later in the "What I learned" section).
f/4
1/20
ISO 640
50mm *1.6
(Tamron f/2.8 17-50mm)
The only thing that bugs me about the shot is that I blew out the details in the powder. I think this is a result of the light being about half the distance from the powder than from the jug.
This was a tough shoot. I took about 30 posed shots, which required me to run back and forth between each one , engage the timer, run back to the spot, pick up the weight, pose, repeat. I was sweating by the end.
PP included healing out stray powder particles, a few wrinkles in the fabric, trying to regain some of the detail lost in the powder, and healing out the back edge of the table which was only slightly visible.
This was my first product shoot and I learned lot! Here are some things I learned.
1. TRUST the histogram. If it shows clipping, then something is clipping! Don't trust the LCD!
2. White walls and concrete floors create major light spill which is hard to control. I had to rummage through the house to find anything black and relatively large to lay around the scene to prevent reflections and to get the background completely dark around me.
3. Aluminum foil does not make a good snoot as it reflects light at the end in every direction.
4. Light control in a dark scene is critical.
5. Can never have too many c-47 clips.
6. Diffusion paper on the end of a snoot makes the snoot worthless as it just rediffuses the light in all directions.
Feel free to make suggestions on what I could have done to imrove the shot! Thanks for checking it out. :hug::
This shot took a few hours to get setup the way I wanted it, and even then I felt really restricted by the crappy clamp lights and space I had to work with (more on this later in the "What I learned" section).
f/4
1/20
ISO 640
50mm *1.6
(Tamron f/2.8 17-50mm)
The only thing that bugs me about the shot is that I blew out the details in the powder. I think this is a result of the light being about half the distance from the powder than from the jug.
This was a tough shoot. I took about 30 posed shots, which required me to run back and forth between each one , engage the timer, run back to the spot, pick up the weight, pose, repeat. I was sweating by the end.
PP included healing out stray powder particles, a few wrinkles in the fabric, trying to regain some of the detail lost in the powder, and healing out the back edge of the table which was only slightly visible.
This was my first product shoot and I learned lot! Here are some things I learned.
1. TRUST the histogram. If it shows clipping, then something is clipping! Don't trust the LCD!
2. White walls and concrete floors create major light spill which is hard to control. I had to rummage through the house to find anything black and relatively large to lay around the scene to prevent reflections and to get the background completely dark around me.
3. Aluminum foil does not make a good snoot as it reflects light at the end in every direction.
4. Light control in a dark scene is critical.
5. Can never have too many c-47 clips.
6. Diffusion paper on the end of a snoot makes the snoot worthless as it just rediffuses the light in all directions.
Feel free to make suggestions on what I could have done to imrove the shot! Thanks for checking it out. :hug::