for my 2000th post i thought i’d celebrate by sharing a “how i tok it”. its not the greatest of shots.. but i thought it turned out pretty good considering it was my first attempt at product styled lighting.
Exif
Manual exposure, flash on TTL +1 EV via the commander menu (i think)
135mm
1/60th
iso320
f/5.6
So, after seeing the post on the blog abut striplights i decided to try “Getto” my own version, seeing as we had a rainy Friday and Saturday.
I set up my home made reflector like this, in a shoot-through with my off camera sb600.(you can see the strips of light on the glass that have made it through the gap inbetween the placemats)
I put up two place-mats to allow only a strip of light through. (hence the name striplight) and this created the sexy line of light down the sde of the glass.. accentuating the curves. What i found was it was quite harsh, so i aimed the flash up a bit and that softened the light a touch more.
sadly, as you can see by the above picture i opted for the shot that didnt have the strip of light on the glass, (only on the stem).
it just looked better, as the strip was a tad harsh. i learned allot.. so next time i can put that into practice.
i gave up pretty much becase at 11pm the sound of my bed calling was starting to drown out my own thoughts.
The reason i turned the glass upside down was simply because i waned to raise it up off the table to keep the background clean, which also made it easier to remove the background. the top rim of the glass did have to get edited out to make it flat.
(i’ll have to experiment next time as to how i can make the dottom and top of glass appera parallel) ‘m sure its mostly a focal length thing.. but thats for next time.
This time it was more about the lighting than creating a “factual” documented product as though it was for a client. so long as it looked cool.
after spot healing some undesirable specks of light, i then cut the glass off the background and added a colour gradient.
I then made up a name for the “elegant” new glassware and used some softlight and multiply layers.
viola!
i just turned the cheapest glasses on the shelf into something rather expensive looking.
(well i think so anyway)
thanks for looking!
( i hope the flickr link is correct.. its my first time for my transition from photobucket.. so go easy)