The one who know me ,that I love running.
In this set I’ll show you how I took that shoe product photograph.
Taking lightning photographs are actually surprisingly very very easy!For such kind of photographs (I accidentally,on the way took this one) you almost don’t need any pro equipment at all.
Get in and read my easy and simple tips on how make that simple diy photography of stormy lightning.
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!
A grid is the light modifier that you’ll use when you want to focus or narrow your flash beam of light, and let it be concentrated in one strong beam.There
is a way to narrow and control the flash light beam by using the manual zoom angle control (this option is available with the Canon 550EX flash unit and in many other flashes) but with the DIY grid you’ll be able to really control its width and power to a maximum.
This project is an easy one and all you’ll need for it is:
- Piece of bristol paper ( you could use any type,I used a folder that I got in a Google convention).
- About 40-50 straws.
- Ruler.
- Canon 550EX…
- 20 minutes
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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).
So get in and see the rest of this tutorial and more examples! Read the rest of this entry »
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.
Hey you all!
As most of my work is with small flashes I must bring you to this very talented Swedish photographer (Stockholm, Sweden) who is also a graphic designer.You can get to his site at this address .As I use small flashes in the tutorials you see in that site, Stefan is using “big” lights Profoto units if I read it right.The “big” lights can get you better results in many of the cases than the small lights,as the ad-ons you can work with the big light are much versatile than the one that you can get or DIY for the small light (not mentioning power and the light shape).
In Stefans blog and site you could get many tutorials , mainly about portrait photography,in those tutorials you’ll see detailed examples and diagrams for the shootouts he did.I really liked the product shootout that you can see in that link Lighting setup for Amigurumi product photography using only two lights!
I have to say that this tutorial really got me thinking on trying to get this nice result with the small flashes that I use for my product photography tutorials…So the first two things that I did after I read that tutorial by stefan is to DIY two honeycoms for my flashes, one circular shaped and on rectangle shape.
Enjoy the site by Stefan and see you soon with my next tutorial!
Hey.
many times I see on the net good flash photography sites,but not great sites.This one is one of the best that I visited the last month and I do recommend you guys to check it up once in a while or register to its mailing list.
This is a site by David Tejada (if I got it right),and its moto is
“Small StrobesBig Results”
Well he do delivers.
So go and visit it ,I’m sure you’ll like some of the stuff he is talking about.
You probably heard about the free gel filters packages that sometimes in the past where send to everyone that requested them.Well I believe that the filter manufacture companies went bankrupt as the word spread around the photography community.Now there are some sets that are sold on eBay Adorama ans such for about 10$.If you got your hands on a dealer around you that still ships those filter set for free,you should contact him and ask for one!
The filter set that I got has maybe 100 of colored filter gels suited exactly to my Canon 5xx series.All I had to do was to build a gel filter holder.There are many DIY projects like that on the net and I actually started that with a piece of plastic that broke and then said hey why wouldn’t I try to make it of a transparency slide?!
Its easy and your 5 years child can do it for you too!
