Fresh from the oven. Tried doing a camera product shot this afternoon. Realised how hard it is to control the specular highlights. Please comment and help me improve!!! :bsmilie:
exposure is correct, if increase lighting the camera will grey out.solarii said:Image is too dark... the details of the camera are shrouded in shadow.
You need to increase you lighting. And since the camera is black, choose a light background, unless you can get sufficient lighting to illuminate your subject properly.
it depend how you place the light, you also need lot of mirrors, white and black cards to get some details and block away unwanted hightlights.Splutter said:Catchlights, I had actually choose a snoot coz using the softbox lights up the entire tabletop too. Is there anyway to use the softbox and not light up unwanted areas?
have you notice some not so black spots or marks on the background?Pynch said:The black background look very black to me.
What does 'not clean' mean?
nothing darker than black velvet cloth.Pynch said:Use very black cloth to cover the table top?
catchlights said:it depend how you place the light, you also need lot of mirrors, white and black cards to get some details and block away unwanted hightlights.
As for background, you can use velvet cloth, dark glass, formica etc.
have you notice the shadow cast by the shutter cocking level?
That's actually the tabletop. I thought having everything black seems to make the pic lose an achorpoint. Hmm, maybe should just ps it away.catchlights said:have you notice some not so black spots or marks on the background?
velvet will absorb lights, but you are lighting a black object, so will not have totally black on velvet. it is ok to use a black paper, but in your case here, the paper is not clean, have some light marks there.Splutter said:Yes I did notice the shadow. Caused by the backlight that I used to light the lens barrell. I guess it's really something that requires a lot of patience and experimentaton to get right. I forgot my tripod today so I was rather pissed with myself already :bsmilie:
I actually tried both black velvet and black cloth, both still can see. As for black cards, I think the actual setup will require many clamps to hold them in place. I saw this jewelley setup that had 10s of mirrors held by clamps. I think I'll go mad if i do something like that, haha.