First Test Run of a Product Shoot

[AgentDrex]

Four of my fourteen lenses. Here are things I notice: Need to clean lenses before taking photos of them...need to minimize shadows somehow. Could use tips on that. Here is how I set this up: thought I could go get some poster board or something similar but ended up short in money...so I used what I had at my disposal. Sheets of printer paper laid on a table in my kitchen. The ceiling light (fluorescent lighting) in the kitchen. A white wall for the background. A long exposure (2-13 seconds depending on length of lens barrel, the longer the barrel, the higher the f-stop to increase DOF, the longer the exposure). I noticed though, because of the size of the table and the proximity to the wall, I could only go so small in aperture before the mess of papers would start to show. I did get some grey in there, but this was a first of, hopefully, many. Without further ado, here are four of the lenses I have in my collection (starting off with my favorite, almost permattached lens):

#1

#2

#3

#4

 

[AgentDrex]

Third one has a big, ol fingerprint just staring at us...whoops...

I suppose I could have held a piece of white paper above the lenses to decrease the shadows, any other product shooting tips out there? I will have a solid white surface to work with in the near-to-distant future....

 

[NikonNewbie]

LMAO I noticed that fingerprint right away....lol! good eye man!

 

[AgentDrex]

Yeah, you do...I didn't catch until I uploaded it...I had noticed the dust though...I didn't want to post all fourteen photos I took as I figured that would rile someone something awful...

 

[LightSpeed]

By chance, are you manually focusing on these shots? If I may ask.

 

[AgentDrex]

Is it that obvious? I swear I'll get my eyes checked...well, I'm no Ansel...yet.

 

[LightSpeed]

I thought so. I noticed it a while back but didn't say anything. I thought someone else might point it out but they never did. Someone needs to , so it might as well be me. To try to help you, no other reason. Sometimes auto focus can do it better than you, or me. Sometimes not, such is the case with macro.

 

[loosecanon]

Here is a good place to get info.

Another DIY light box, with build and test pics - Canon Digital Photography Forums

 

[KmH]

The product shooting basic bible is Light: Science and Magic, An Introduction to Photographic Lighting by Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, and Paul Faqua.

Not only consider working on the lighting, the staging of the lenses, and the camera angle, could use some attention.

<a href="Light" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/02...&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0240808193">Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=hdiumds-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0240808193" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

 

[AgentDrex]

I do have the Light: Science and Magic PDF, I'll get around to reading that...I have read the first few pages...so I need to work on angle of product and camera angle...okay...cool...I'm shooting through old glass so I'll be sticking with manual focus...talking about old glass...my glasses are 14 years old...I bought them when I was 19 and I'm 33 now, is there an eye appointment in my future? You bet! Thank you for the advice, links, tips, gentle prods, devilish kicks in the arse...and just for being here...thank you so much...everyone of you is a saviour...thank you