C&C some product photography

I've done a little product photography n the past, just kinda winging it. This time I paid more attention to my techniques, especially the histogram - and I think the results are much better than my past efforts.

Continuous fluorescent softboxes, f/8, ISO100, 1/13sec.

I think the only thing I missed is that I should have dusted/cleaned the product more carefully.

Any constructive criticism is appreciated.

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first clean the video camera that is killing me

Are your whites totally white?

When shooting on a white background for product, it is best to get this to a pure white colour.

Which is all about the lighting and probably some photoshop if you are shooting this on a curved background, which it looks like you are.

The whites were very close to blown in the originals, but I adjusted exposure up in Lightroom so that about 2/3 of the background area is clipping (pure) white.

It is best to get the clipping in camera, but shooting it on a sloping background is not always the best way to do that.

frankxsi wrote in post #13293045
first clean the video camera that is killing me

This, so much!

+1!!!

lovely outcome btw.....

mtimber wrote in post #13294051
It is best to get the clipping in camera, but shooting it on a sloping background is not always the best way to do that.

Thanks.

Any particular reason for this?

In camera, I exposed so that the paper was just very slightly below clipping. In the originals, the only clipping spots were the reflections of the lights in the chrome bits on the camera. I adjusted it up by maybe 0.35 exposure in Lightroom to get most, but not all, of the (non-shadowed) white background to clip.

The background was just a piece of sketch paper taped to the back of a chair, draped down onto the table. I have a big roll of white seamless, but was too lazy to get it out...

nathancarter wrote in post #13310348
Thanks.

Any particular reason for this?

In camera, I exposed so that the paper was just very slightly below clipping. In the originals, the only clipping spots were the reflections of the lights in the chrome bits on the camera. I adjusted it up by maybe 0.35 exposure in Lightroom to get most, but not all, of the (non-shadowed) white background to clip.

The background was just a piece of sketch paper taped to the back of a chair, draped down onto the table. I have a big roll of white seamless, but was too lazy to get it out...

It is just easier, if you blow out the background in the shoot, it is much easier to post process.

Although it is harder to light it this way, because you want the whites blown out, but not the object or subject itself.

Seamless is not the best way of doing this because of that reason.

Here is a very good tutorial:

http://www.zarias.com …torial-part-1-gear-space/

Outside of the dust, these look pretty good. I'd like to see the type on the camera sharper, though.