Re: Have product photography (clothes/merchandise) lighting questions
tobycat wrote: ...if I don\'t have access to a translucent tabletop..can one shoot \"flat\" down on a seamless paper? How would I light the \"background\" shooting flat?
Easy peasy, as the (old) expression goes: lay the seamless on the floor or table, tape down the corners, and lay your clothing on the seamless. You can light this with one overhead softbox and one hard skim light near floor/table level.
Set your exposure and flash output manually based on an incident flash meter reading; or use your camera\'s reflected light meter plus the histogram, and do a test shot of a neutral gray card that fills as much of the frame as possible. Then don\'t move the lights not change the camera settings as you move your different products in and out of the scene.
Since you won\'t be lighting the BG separately you\'ll need to use Photoshop, Elements, PaintShop, etc. to remove the background, but starting with white seamless will make this pretty easy.
On another note; if you\'re not doing any shooting until March, you have lots of time to study and practice. See if the school has a photography program or at least an art department; there may be studio space on campus that you can use, and they may have all the lights and other equipment you\'d need.
Nov 19, 2011 at 06:25 PM
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