Your Challenge this week, as suggested by both Stu and Paul in the past, is to take a product shot.
Imagine you are taking a photo that could be used on packaging, on a large poster or a sample on a website. Pick a product from around your home (or buy something!) and take a product shot of it. It’s up to you how you choose to display your chosen product.
Here are some examples to show the kind of thing I’m looking for:
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The main things to remember:
- You will need more light than you think! A desk lamp or bright torch would be ideal.
- Using your camera’s built-in flash can sometimes cause unpleasant glare. If you can get enough light from a lamp or a window, try turning your flash off.
- Think about the background. To avoid having a seam, you could try attaching a piece of paper near the bottom of a wall, so it curves onto the floor.
- You may equally decide you don’t want a seamless background.
- You don’t have to do a tabletop-sized item, either.
You might also like to read this guide on how to take product shots at home. It needs no special equipment!
Good luck with this Challenge! Please send your results in by noon on Tuesday 15th June.
Right. I’m going to pull my finger out and take part this week. I’ve missed the last three through holidays and general lack-of-enthusiasm so I’m going to get right back on it this week.
Hehe… and there was me thinking “Well, it’s definitely going to be Paul ‘winning’ this week”
I had an idea last night, a way to move me outside my still life comfort zone and make me try something new.
So this week, I will be taking part, but I will be shooting my product shot on 120roll film – I have a plan, and I think I can pull it off and get the negs developed/scanned over the weekend. Wish me luck!
film?
Sounds good, Paul. Pretty ambitious to get your film shot, developed, scanned and edited in under a week
Damn. The “shoot it on film” plan isn’t going to work, as it’s Monday night and I don’t have any developer or fixer. Developer I could work withought (coffee and washing soda works fine) but I don’t have any good DIY fixer recipes.
At least I remembered to check before loading the film into the tank!
So, I’ll have to go with the backup digital shot
Quick, Paul, get to my house now! I have all of the things you need!
I hope you’ll still publish the film version in due course, so we can see how it turned out
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