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Easy two lights product photography setup

Jun 19

Posted by Samuel M. in Product photography | 3 Comments

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Hey, I’ve been asked by a good friend of mine (Zehavit) to come and shoot some images of their fun science learning packages for children. There are many easy science experiments that the children learn while doing fun things. Those kits are a very useful thing and the childrens love it!!! The photographs I’ll take will be used for the package back to show some of the ingredients each kit includes.

For this product setup I used 2 Canon speedlight flashes, on the tripod a Canon 580EXII and on the other side (on the table) a Canon 430EX, both flashes triggered by another Canon flash (550EX).Flashes set to manual power, the main light – Canon 580EXII set to 1/4 of maximum power and the small 430EX used as a fill light on the right side bounced by the wall set to 1/16 of full power. Camera also set to manual mode Iso 500, f/10, 1/200th sec white balance – manual (taken with a gray card).

Here are some results that came out of that simple product photography setup, feel free to comment and share your product photography photographs!!!

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The easiest product photography setup ever

May 15

Posted by Samuel M. in DIY projects, Product photography, Tips | 5 Comments

One of the most popular question on the web, when starting to learn photography is how do improve your product photography.

Somehow you don’t have to own an online ebay shop in order to be interested in product photography.It simply a common task to do when you start to explore your photography.You don’t have to ask a model to participate in a shootout, you can do it in your bedroom or living room, you can use studio strobes or a simple reading lamp.

So I can’t put the finger why, but every one will do that in one way or an other.

Surfing over flicker.com (which is a great site for photography inspiration) I found this simple setup which I thinks beats my simple product photography tutorial. All this guy uses is a couple of papers arranged in a simple “box” setup for white background and reflector. The only downside for this is that it will suit only small product as this setup is small. Shooting this lens that he did is already to big. So check it out and start learning and experimenting!

Credit for Josh Liba.

Here is a link to Josh’s Flickr gallery: Josh Liba

Using gels for product photography-Part II

Mar 10

Posted by Samuel M. in Product photography | 2 Comments

If you read part one of this tutorial about product photography using gel filters, its your time to move forward to part II.

In this part we’ll learn how to use the gel filter set and the DIY small flash grid

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So get in and see how you can take those pictures too!!!

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Adidas Boston -Shoe photography Setup

Mar 2

Posted by Samuel M. in Product photography, video | No Comments

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The one who know me ,that I love running.

In this set I’ll show you how I took that shoe product photograph.

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Using gels for product photography- part I

Feb 28

Posted by Samuel M. in Product photography | 2 Comments

Hey,

I saw a great tutorial in Stefan’s site (you can get the link in my favorites).He have been shooting products (hand made great looking funny dolls ).Stefan uses a professional studio and pro flashes for his work and you can see the diargrams of some of his studio sessions in his blog. I this piece I tried to get as close to his job, using small of camera flashes for this product photography. So get in and learn how to do it on the budget!

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Products photography using a photek brolly

Feb 15

Posted by Samuel M. in Product photography | 2 Comments

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Hey you guys!in this post I’ll instruct you how to shoot very good shots of your product using just one small camera flash ,in this case I used a Canon 580EXII in a photek brolly which is the most powerful lighting modifier on budget that I know!I use here a 46 inch brolly (the nick name for an umbrella softbox).I don’t remember how much i cost me a couple of years ago,when my friend Chen went to the B&H and bought this piece for me (thanks Chen).

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Easy Ebay photography using a light tent

Feb 10

Posted by Samuel M. in Product photography, Tips | 2 Comments

We all know how important it is to get a good picture in order to get a good selling page in your eBay.com store.

A good picture will generate more traffic to you store and will probably will get you  better conversion rate,that means in simple words MORE MONEY!!!

Here I’ll cover the basics of how to shot a good picture with a low budget studio equipment.One light tent and three flash units might cost you less than  90$.Get this and you’ll be ready for your eBay product photography homebased studio.

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Cookie Photography-the cookie shootout

Jan 29

Posted by Samuel M. in DIY projects, Product photography, Tips | 1 Comment

The cookie post started when I had a newly wed couple that came to my office to get their wedding album.I had to bring some goods in to serve the guys,so I went don’t to the local super market,having only a couple of minutes to choose the best sweet for my visitors,I decided to go with the chocolate chips cookies that I all ways love!

When I took the box from the self I said to myself ,”hey that’s a great photo on the box I want to do that too!”

Here  is one of the first  pics that I took:

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Get In and read the rest of the story (I bet you’ll want those chocolate cookies too)!
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How to shoot flowers?

Nov 3

Posted by Samuel M. in Product photography | 2 Comments

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It is not an easy job to photograph a flower.You could use the photosfor many purposes.In case you have an online flowers shop I don’t have to explain the advantages of a good flower photograph.You could use a flower photograph for your greeting cards, I really don’t like the greeting cards that I get when you see the photo being “photoshoped” as hell until you don’t believe that the picture is real or not…So get in and find out how I took this picture ,hint-its easy and I used only one light…

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Amazing product photography 1$ technique!-Part II

Oct 18

Posted by Samuel M. in Product photography | 3 Comments

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Great product photographs in no time and priceless look,this is what you are going to learn in this tutorial!

If you are not familiar with part I of this tutorial take a look in this link amazing product photography where you’ll get an idea about how I did  that setup and the basic two light posing atrategies I talked about .

In part II of amazing product photography using  the DIY small softbox (based on a  shoe box)  will cover another two light setups for some differnt effect,so lets see what its all about.

This is one of the shots you’ll  get in this tutorial,so get in read and DIY!

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