 Jessie |
New to photography! How's this achieved? Hi all, I am trying to shoot photos for online commercial use. I'm real clueless about photography and basically only have two fluorescent floodlights to work with. I wonder what kinda of lights, techniques, camera use are used to shoot a nice photo like this. Any advice is much appreciated!
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Peter M. Wilcox |
I would start in a bookstore (search on Amazon), or library, and find a good book on studio photography. A lot of equipment and experience went into getting the shot you linked. To begin with, flourescent lights won't work, you will be unable to get good color rendition.
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Slim Brady |
I didn't go look, thunk it might be a setup. Are you shoooting commercial or dreaming about it. Or did someone get you excited about it, will you shoot it for free to get your name out there (thats what they tell models all the time when they don't want to pay their worth). Or are you just testing the waters. Lots a sharkies out daehh!
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Andrew Laverghetta |
I'll second that bookstore thing, also, Something that you can work at is getting some kind of uniform background that is pure white. Even a white wall would work or you would have to iron any kind of fabric...Make sure there's plent of light on the background so it's all completely white or so you can make it all white in photoshop if you have good knowledge of it. If not, learn it somehow. Then, you're going to need to get some kind of very diffused lighting. Assuming you used one light on making sure the background was lit, you may need to get another light for the subject. Then find something that diffused light A LOT. Something like tracing paper is amazing for diffusing light but you would want a huge piece of it. Maybe if you can get something thin like pure white, bleached muslin you can hang large pieces in front of the light but a decent distance away and hope that this diffuses the light enough. Then you'll need to use a tripod and a low ISO. There probably won't be that much light getting to the subject and that's what the tripod is for. You'll have longer shutter speeds. Also, it would be good to use a Digital SLR with custom white balance. If you have a DSLR with custom white balance like the 20D or similar 30D, you should be able to get accurate colors. I do a lot of shooting under tungsten hotlights and get great, accurate color. Since that pic does show clothes, it is very important to do all that you can to get accurate colors. This isn't really a thing you can jump right into though. I would suggest starting by using location shooting at good times of day like catalogs do.
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