I am shooting some product and want to get some reflections. What would be the best thing to use for something like this? Right now I have been using an old piece of glass from a frame. Thanks for your help!!
andy10676 Hatchling 3 posts Joined Nov 2008 More info | May 27, 2009 13:10 | #1 I am shooting some product and want to get some reflections. What would be the best thing to use for something like this? Right now I have been using an old piece of glass from a frame. Thanks for your help!!
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thenaturephotographer Senior Member 347 posts Joined Dec 2007 Location: Southwest Michigan More info | May 30, 2009 21:47 | #2 one thing i've done is to make the reflection in PS, but that doesn't work for everything. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zdorj
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ScootersDaddy Senior Member 398 posts Likes: 3 Joined May 2009 Location: Massachusetts More info | I bought a couple of pieces of reflective board recently that works really nicely. Just got it yesterday and took a couple of shots this evening but have not had a chance to upload them yet. --Peter
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PhotosGuy Cream of the Crop, R.I.P. More info | Jun 05, 2009 10:02 | #4 old piece of glass from a frame So, you want reflections over the image & not in the product? FrankC - 20D, RAW, Manual everything...
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maurostucchi Member 58 posts Joined Jun 2009 Location: Naples, Florida, USA More info | Jun 19, 2009 21:42 | #5 i just bought a shooting table it work great Mauro
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ScootersDaddy Senior Member 398 posts Likes: 3 Joined May 2009 Location: Massachusetts More info | Jun 20, 2009 17:56 | #6 |
maurostucchi Member 58 posts Joined Jun 2009 Location: Naples, Florida, USA More info | thank you glad you like mi pictures Mauro
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sfaust Goldmember 2,306 posts Likes: 10 Joined Nov 2006 More info | May 06, 2010 17:54 | #8 A piece of plexiglass of the appropriate size works well. Underneath it you can use black or white seamless, or any other color you desire. Using photoshop should be a last resort since creating the reflections is very time consuming if not nearly impossible except for anything with complex shapes.
Reflective poster board also works well and as a side benefit will give you some surface texture as well. Since the surface has texture as well, and you use that to show lighting effects such as adding a spot effect here. That can also be done with a product shooting table, but require another light source and would interfere with the product reflections.
Stephen
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