You know what?
I'm just going to start uploading my product photo tests to my Flickr page. I don't need to bore you all with the details of my journey every day here. I'll keep this to the high level points.
I'm just going to start uploading my product photo tests to my Flickr page. I don't need to bore you all with the details of my journey every day here. I'll keep this to the high level points.
It's a little bit of a gloomy morning here in northern New England so I decided to take advantage of the more naturally diffused light. May as well put these clouds to good use!
This time I faced my subject more towards the windows because the light was a little softer. I also wanted to make sure I got a little bit of reflection in the lens of my GoPro. Since it's too dark in my office for window light alone, I turned on the paper lamp in the corner and got this nice soft yellow light. THIS is the "hair light" I was looking for yesterday. It threw off the white balance a little bit, but it wasn't anything I couldn't correct.
I was using the glass again and this time I actually propped it up a little higher so I could shoot more comfortably. The light from behind the GoPro really helped with isolating it from the background on both the subject plane and the reflection pane. I got a much stronger reflection this way. I used the kit lens again all the way at 135mm, but I decided to go up to f/8 to make sure the GoPro was in focus from front to back. Yesterday I was running into some depth issues at f/5.6.
The background light was definitely helpful this time. I just need to find a way to make it fill the entire frame now... probably a large bed sheet or over-sized paper would do the trick. It would no doubt soften the light even more, but it might be worth trying. Now I just need to get some C stands...