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Hello all. I am on a tight budget and need to see how well I can produce some website pictures. I would greatly appreciate tips and thoughts on lighting and other issues. Below are the examples of what I need to photograph and how I would like the pictures to look generally speaking. I have access to photoshop and illustrator if things need to be worked on after.

Here are how I would like my pictures to be presented(I'm guessing the first place to start is by taking pictures properly):
PUTTERS | NEVER COMPROMISE
Bettinardi Golf | Precision Milled Putters | Studio Stock Series Putters


Thank you for your advice.
 
All you need is the product, and a friend to model, a golf course or putting green (with permission to shoot there), and some different colored reflectors.

Shoot the product on the green itself in closeups / in use (friend may wish to dress in real golf attire for authenticity).

Use the reflector to add or decrease natural light. Add effects (such as shine off of club from sun) after in PS.

Assuming you have the product and a friend, I can forsee the following costs:
reflectors (silver & black), maybe a round of golf for you to use the green, oh and you friends attire.

edited: oh well, you just wanted the products shot, not a scene. oops ;) I should check the links :p
 
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The images, particularily those in the first link are very well executed product images, created I suspect, by someone with a great deal of skill, knowledge and specialist equipment. If you're asking about 'taking pictures properly' then I suspect you're a long way off from being able to produce images of this calibre. What sort of dollar figure do you mean by 'very tight budget'? The lighting itself is a very complex topic, especially because you are talking about highly reflective, cylindrical objects (assuming your product is in fact a golf club). The very first thing you should purchase if you want to do this yourself is the bible of lighting information: Light, Science, Magic! Not to say that you can't do this yourself, but to get the quality of image you've indicated, you're going to be spending a LOT of time learning and refining your technique, as well as a non insubstantial equipment investment. I suspect, that unless you have a LOT of product to shoot on an on-going basis, the couple of thousand dollars a professional would charge to do this for you would be money well spent.
 
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Thanks the replies so far. Well, my budget will not allow for any extra expenses outside paying the website developer. I must have sufficient reserves to handle problems....I am outlaying 40-50K in the next 2 months for production of putters and other stuff. The pictures on the website unfortunately are that area that I have to forgo.

I am very glad you said it was excellent work on those sites, because I sure thought so as well. Are there any pictures of the types of reflectors you are talking about?
I have a Canon G9 digital camera 12.1 megapixels. Is there another camera that I need to look at to get me closer to the end result?
Any general tips?

I will take a look at that link you sent and try to educate myself.
 
The camera is the least important aspect of the equation, 'though the flexibility afforded by an interchanable lens DSLR would be helpful, what you really need is lighting equipment, and most importantly the knowledge of how to use it.
 
When you shoot metallic surfaces you have to recognize that the metal works a bit like a mirror -- it doesn't necessarily have a "color" of it's own -- rather it reflects whatever is around.

Pick up some foam core boards from a craft store. These are placed out of frame. But you'll need to imagine that the metal is actually a polished mirror and think of where you'd need to place the white foam core in order to pickup the "white" reflection (and you might also want black just in case you want to deliberately get dark reflects -- which can sometimes help accent).

Apart from that, it's all about the placement of the lighting to create the shadows. Good lighting is perhaps more about the "shadows" than it is about the "light".
 

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