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Trying to improve the lighting in this shot?

 
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Sep 09, 2008 08:24 |  #1

I have to shoot some fishing reels for a catalog and want them to "POP"!
What would you recommend?
I was thinking two 580's with soft boxes? Or would just one be enough with a reflector?
This is some of what I have been doing with fluorescent lights. (I know they need more editing)

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Sep 09, 2008 12:53 |  #2

pics look perfect to me. you might wanna read about light tents


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Sep 09, 2008 13:01 |  #3

Product photos that pop are not often produced by light tents or by speedlights even in softboxes. Product photos that pop are the result of careful light placement, including 'negative lighting'. This might take a couple of hours for single item to be lit optimally. Less time is close to by-accident than by intention! In all the high end product photography that I have witnessed over the decades or done myself, a light tent was never used even once!


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Sep 09, 2008 17:51 as a reply to  @ Wilt's post |  #4

What lights should I use Wilt?


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Sep 09, 2008 18:08 |  #5

You set lights in different size rectangular or squarish softboxes and use white reflective panels and also black reflective panels.


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Sep 09, 2008 18:54 as a reply to  @ Wilt's post |  #6

So I should use the fluorescent light that I have been using? Or use flash with soft boxes?

Thanks for your help!


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Sep 09, 2008 19:45 |  #7

The trick is simply WHERE to put lights and white surfaces that will be seen as reflections...the light type itself is incidental!


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Sep 09, 2008 20:07 |  #8

Gotcha!


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