Photography & Lighting setups
From the category archives:
This is just a unretouched photo from a project I am working on at the moment, sooner or later it will end up in a book with patterns so anyone with skill and patience can make these cookies (and cakes, and ice creams etc).
My job is to make the stuff look good, and it has been really fun to work with the lighting and setups to achieve that.
One type of product photography that seem to have a growing demand in the photography market is the clean and simple packshot. Usually shot on white background with soft shadows and very even lighting. Easy to use for the clients both in their web shops and printed material.
Even if it seems to be easy to achieve decent looking product photos with a cheap camera and a light tent, many clients of mine have already tried that and wants something a little more professional looking.
My latest assignment in this field was a product shot for a company that sells pills of different kinds, they needed a photo for a magazine ad.
Recently I was asked to photograph a lot of garment for Swedish fashion designer and brand Fräulein von Hast, she was planning to start a web shop and needed photos of every skirt, blouse, jacket and dress she had available.
For every item she needed at least three, but more often four different angles so the customers can view the front, back and sides of the skirt or jacket they might be interested in.
This is how I set the light, planned the day and shot 325 photos.
A while ago I photographed some Amigurumis in my photo studio for friends who likes to knit small stuffed toys. The result can be seen above and on Flickr if you click on the image.
Lighting small toys is one thing, but getting the light right for wool and threads is quite tricky, especially light colours. To get the structure visible but not blowing out the highlights takes some testing.
Some friends of mine started knitting small toys, more known as amigurumi, which is a japanese thing. Please visit their blog Virkamera (in Swedish only, but the pictures speak for themselves) for more examples.
I helped them with some studio shots of the amigurumis when I had some time to spare. The result came out pretty nice, I think. Some are cute, others are creepy.
Amigurumi dog in sunset, sort of.
