New Nikon Gear with P&S

[Davor]

I took some pictures of my new Battery grip today, i have a couple lenses too but decided not to include them in this picture. I used my ambient lighting with some white poster boards for fill light, a normal piece of glass with a black sheet under. And this was shot with my moms point and shoot on a Tripod.

With a bit of help from Photoshop i achieved this

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[KmH]

The grip is essentially lost in the black background and invisible, because the light is coming from above, not from camera left and lower.

A white or light colored background would have worked better to show the grip and isolate the camera and grip.

 

[vivalaveritas]

Good, but a little dark. The camera needs to be pulled off the background with another light, but you were only using ambient so that would be hard. Good job.

 

[alwaysbored786]

damn, for a point and shoot these are really nice! +1 on the grip being lost though, i couldnt see it until i looked for it.

 

[Davor]

Thanks for the replies, it was difficult working with the light because i only had an extra helping hand holding a white poster board on the bottom left, if i had one on the right it would have been good i think. Ill go back and see if i can add more light do the back

 

[reznap]

Black backgrounds can be a PITA I think. I read a great article on how to light glass against black.. let me see if I can find it.

Here: The follow-up shot: an easy way to shoot glass on a black | Pixiq

Use some backlight to outline the subject.

 

[cnutco]

How about putting a small lamp under the glass table with it angled toward the back ground.

Not too bad with a P&S though...

Great little setup you have. Love mine and it shoots high ISO better than my D300.

 

[Davor]

Black backgrounds can be a PITA I think. I read a great article on how to light glass against black.. let me see if I can find it.

Here: The follow-up shot: an easy way to shoot glass on a black | Pixiq

Use some backlight to outline the subject.

Thank you for that link, its just going to be a little difficult trying to get a setup like that due to limited gear i have.