make sure you have LOTS of bandwidth.
it compiles 238 pages into 1 uber large 1.
found this while googling
dont you mean
make sure you have LOTS of INK?!?!?
Ill pay pal anyone a dollar who prints up this entire thread and posts a photo of the stack of papers :P
I tried this out at Photokina. Your subject can be,oooh, 40cm from the brackground and your get a shadow-free high-key effect simply by popping a flash inside the backdrop. It makes the process pretty fool-proof and good for studios where space is tight.
I tried this out at Photokina. Your subject can be,oooh, 40cm from the brackground and your get a shadow-free high-key effect simply by popping a flash inside the backdrop. It makes the process pretty fool-proof and good for studios where space is tight.
thats actually kind of nice. It would work great "on the go"
there is a convention comming up on a few months here , i was going to set up in the hotel lobby somewhere with the lights 9' seamless and stands.
but that would seem to be a lot easier to work with in that situation.
i did a search, where do i buy one of those things
When you are doing a shoot please take a shot of the whole scene with model - lights etc - so that people can see the scene and get some feel for the shoot that you do -
Also if you can also give some details about light power just write F8 or F4 or whatever over the light in the photo
I know it will take a little bit of time but will provide more value to poeple who are feeling for these shoots -
I would prefere a real scene to a made up scene in PS2 what i have seen floating abround here - it looks real nice but does not give the atmosphere of a real scene.
I know JohnE does it a lot on his setups -
so please let him be the person to who we set our standard to.
I recently shot a bunch of shoes for a publisher, these are to be removed from the background via cutting paths so I was not overly concerned about keeping a completely clean background but did want to make it easy as possible for them.
Basic setup was a shooting table with double curves and a single Photogenic PL1250DR light under the table firing onto a piece of while roll paper to reflect light up the back of the table.
I used two photogenic PL1250DR's to lights the shoes, for the shoot I used grids, standard reflectors, small softboxes, and ripstop.
The shoes themselves were set on clear plexiglass raised about 6" above the surface of the white translucent. Black foamcore was placed between the white and clear plexiglass to control the light coming from the table.
Most shots were taken using softboxes though the setup example was using bare lights.
In this example you can see the clear plexi, the black foamcore, and the cans of air I used to support the clear plexi (very high tech). I am the guy and the female is the art director..
In this example you can see four small tubs have replaced the cans of air (less tippy) and the shoes are supported at the heals using white string. They wanted these to be shot from above but since my ceiling is low and my laddar is short I figured this was good enough and so did they.
These are just mad sexy. Again, they are going to be cut from the background so the reflection is a non-issue. These were lit by two small softboxes.
Edited by Littlebike on Nov 02, 2006 at 01:19 PM GMT
Littlebike wrote:
... the female is the art director..
A bunch of guestions...
- How did you work with the art director?
- Did you have a laptop from which you showed the pictures to her?
- Did you show her the picture which was taken a second ago, or after one set?
hmm.. my main question is, how did you managed to get the results she wanted?
Thanks ( or Br ),
Teemu
Ps. Could someone tell is Br. only for personal messages or can it be used like this? :|
I shot tethered to a 17" widescreen laptop, if the photo was an obvious no go we would delete immediately, if it was in the ball park we would keep it and try to improve the angle or lighting.
Most often I had the freedom to do anything I want - as she put it, "you are a professional and there is a reason we have you doing this shoot". There were some shoes that had to be show from very specific angles and for others She would use phrases like:
-sexy
-1/4 page
-bottom of page
-fills the bottom right corner of the page
This would give me enough to work with and get moving. From there is was a colaboration and together we would zero in on the image. ( if it going to be the bottom of a page then we do not want a front angle for example.)
Bump. I just got some new furniture in and mounted the triple roll holders up on the wall (9" rolls), so here's another photo of our new studio. It's a lot of work but coming along. This is my "Blue Steel". =)
