Set up the product table and discovered a very slight issue with one of its new legs. I will pop and see the engineer next week to get it sorted - but in the meantime it was quite a success.
Takes a while to set everything up as the table needs putting together, the cold light needs putting together, the flash soft box needed putting together, the ETTL lead needs connecting to the flash and camera and the camera needs attaching to the tripod. Phew.
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| Here we have the table on its legs, the cold light and the camera on tripod |
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| This is the image that set-up captured - it needs some light behind the subject |
Once it was all set up it was surprisingly interesting to experiment with the lights in different positions in relation to the products.
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| With the flash light placed behind the table |
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| I think it was too far away as there is still bands of colour and vingette visible |
Glass needs to be lit completely differently to solid objects and so I spent quite a while experimenting with what worked best. Tried a few shots with other objects. Although I had not quite got the technique correct I did find this amusing:
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| Still need to do a lot of work to get this right - but it's getting there |
Now all I need is some real products and a real brief to try it out properly. Will set it all up again on Saturday and this time I will try with two flashes and the cold light just to push the envelope a bit further (to mis-quote Chuck Yeager).
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