Required setup for clothing product shots?

[budawg]

Hello!

I have someone who needs a clothing line photographed for an e-commerce website. The images would need to look something like this...

http://www.gymboree.com/shop/prod_close_up_zoom.jsp?prodview=REGULAR

The clothes laid on a white background and shot sort of "high key" i guess. My question to you is, what setup is this sort of work done on?

Thanks!

P.S. - If this is the wrong section, I apologize. Feel free to move it.

[René Damkot]

Link doesn't work, but I got redirected to the hompage, so saw some images.
Nicely done packshots. You'ld probabely use 1 or two softboxes, a reflector and a white background. The shirts are filled up with something, to give them some height, so the sleeves fall a bit lower.
Remove the background in photoshop afterward.
I don't know if you have any experience with photographing clothing, bu this is more difficult then it looks; clothes don't have a habit of lying down like that; just a few wrinkles in the right places. You don't want them to be too stiff, but you don't want them to be too messy either... 5 minutes a piece is not going to cut it.

[Photodawg1]

Rene...click on the different sizes at top of page and the pics will open.

[René Damkot]

Well, like I said, I got redirected....
Not sure what 'different sizes' you mean. I got this:

[Photodawg1]

Rene. click on baby boy and see what happens.

[budawg]

here's another example of one. It seems to me that the shirt is resting on a light box or inverted softbox because you can see some light through the threadwork of it around the neck and stuff.

http://www.poebeln.de/uploads/aandfsheer.jpg

[René Damkot]

Yup, looks like it. Nice one as well, apart from the shining through IMO.
Also shot with a large softbox I'd say...
Oh, and:
Link doesn't work, but I got redirected to the hompage, so saw some images.
I think what you need is a large piece of white paper, a softbox and a reflector as a minimum. And some skill to use it ;)

[budawg]

So could you perhaps explain what the actual setup and placement would be for this? thanks for the input folks!!!

[René Damkot]

Don't have any other images, but I guess this would explain it roughly... The subject is a bunch of shirts.
Softbox left/'above', reflector right/'below' as seen from above.
Placement of the softbox (high/low) determines the 'look' of the image. In this case the SB is rather high and far away... The bounced light is for additional fill.
The shot is taken from straight above the shirts.

[budawg]

oh my gosh...thank you reneee for that visual explanation. did you try that out by any chance? get any good results?

[René Damkot]

I do the packshots (not the models) for this company (http://www.terstal.nl/folder.htm). (press the upper right corner of the 'folder' to flip pages).
Mostly stuff on coat hanger or doll, but flat lying as well...
Results are okay. Could be better if the clothes were better and budget was higher ;) now I have to deliver 'good enough' images, instead of going to the max.

[budawg]

so rene, could you please reccommend to me a couple lights to buy for this? Where to find them? And also, that picture is indeed your very own setup that you use, right?

[René Damkot]

It's the setup I use, but the Broncolor flashes are from a photographer I work for. I have a Lumedyne flash set, which is a bit too small for this type of work.
As for recommendation: Not really, there are a lot of good brands out there. Different brands in US vs. Europe.
Broncolor, Hensel, Bowens, Elinchrom, to name but a few...

[budawg]

so does it not really matter the brand? what about wattages?