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This is how you take pictures!
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Funny people out there I must say . . . . lol
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But reading your post it sounded like that from you . . . Perhaps sometimes rephrase your comment My bad 😉 and no hard feelings 👍 I'm totally not one of 'those' Rather have one of these 🍻 with you! Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk
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WTB : Bren Ten - WTB : Wildey 45 & 475 Magnum Last edited by Kingair001; 05-08-2017 at 10:17 AM.. |
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S&W 627 8-Shot 357 N-Frame
All of the images were shot using some pretty basic equipment and cramped working conditions. Here is a quick list of ideas to go ahead and duplicate these types of shots. Get a white box like this one from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Shooti...ords=white+box The one above is simple and lets you fold it down into a small package for storage. Use the white box with external lights right up near it to project diffuse light inside of the box. It is somewhat transparent. Also consider using a light pointing in directly inline with the camera like a flash or ring light. I used a cheap stand alone LED desk light. Get creative with the light and have plenty of it. The more the better in some ways. For the camera I used a full frame Sony with a lens supporting close focus at 70mm. Ideally a 100mm MACRO lens is pretty much perfect. You can shoot from a tripod or with a hand hold. When hand holding make sure your camera can create clean images at high ISO to keep the shutter speed reasonable for a crisp shot. Most of the above are ISO 2000-3200 on a newer Sony alpha full frame at F8 aperture. The real trick is to shoot everything with a little higher exposure compensation. Move it up 2/3 of a stop when you shoot so the subject isn't too dark. You should also have Adobe Lightroom as well, take the picture into light room and use the brush tool. With the brush tool create a large spot with a big feather area to blend it in. Then set the exposure adjustment to be very high and paint out the white areas of the background. The object was shot on a white background and the high exposure will blow out the gray color into pure white. The above photos were shot hand held and processed in Lightroom. All I did was erase serial numbers using the spot correction tool, paint out the boarders with a +4 exposure brush to change from gray-ish to white, and make my black/white corrections, clarity, etc. Then just export and away you go. |
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For anyone toying around with product style photography, a light box is an absolute must. I always recommend getting a larger lightbox since you it can never hurt. But if you buy a light box that is too small, you wont be able to fit certain pieces in it. Definitely get set up with some nice lighting, which is often included in the Amazon product photography kits, and try to shoot in a room with lots of natural light- this makes a huge difference in how your shots will end up looking. |
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OH! Really good to see this information and Photos.
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Really good photos here. Impressed with CG's use of flash. I resonate a lot of the advice here. I would like to add that softboxes and umbrellas with use of a constant light source or flash will do wonders to an image
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How we do it...
It's all about the lighting usually. We take hundreds of product pictures for the store so we take a few shortcuts... We photograph everything on top of a light box to get a pure white background and no shadows without needing to do any post processing. Usually with a 50mm macro lens at f16, 1/30, 1000iso. All Canon gear. We also use a graduated manfrotto tripod head so that we can easily record and replicate the camera angles. For shots of entire rifles we usually have to use a 24mm pancake lens to get it all in the frame at a reasonable distance. A cheap lens ring light from amazon will do away with most of your shadows. Our process is tuned for fast, high volume photography with a minimum of post so that comes at a small sacrifice to quality. We go for a "good" picture on the first try every time rather than an "awesome" picture with the need to retune the settings for each shot. If you are looking to take high grade pictures with more interesting content, shadows and backgrounds and such, a lens with good depth of field will let you create some interesting effects. We have a 100mm canon L macro lens that takes amazing pictures of pretty much anything handgun size or smaller. Make sure you blast your content with some compressed air otherwise all those little dust particle will show up in your shot.
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I've looking for this about month ago so I wanna to share some tips with this community.
Youtube video that helps me a lot. Then... I don't wanna be spammy so I'll just link you to the articles that also help me. Because there is a too much of text to copy/paste here :S https://www.theliberalgunclub.com/20...aphy-tutorial/ and https://fstoppers.com/originals/prod...chine-gun-2770 Hope I help you a little Have a nice day guys! Last edited by mini_wini; 11-29-2017 at 11:23 PM.. Reason: Removing link because bbcode is working for youtube. Thanks |
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Here are a couple taken recently using some of the techniques in this thread. A 15" square white cube and three lights, one top and both sides. Also, the lights are "Daylight" bulbs with a color of 5500K, which means I don't have to mess with white balance at all.
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