They're like bikes
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:32 pm... but with more wheels.
I'm trying to avoid creating a whole photo studio since the space "available" is a factory where Ben builds the trikes. Hence, dirty and full of stuff. This was, I think, a failure of an idea - use the cloudy sky as the backdrop. Most were taken lying on the ground with people holding the trike 2m in the air over the photog. Too much backlighting to be usable I think.
Please excuse the slightly rough edit, I'm trying to test the idea rather than get perfect images immediately.
So: what can I do to reduce the backlight/give better front light. The flash was both not powerful enough and too good at lighting up the shiny bits. Generally using lighter-coloured trikes is not an option - dark colours are more popular.
I shot a pile more using a sheet of MDF as a backdrop which made the colours a bit interesting:
Anything I use out there has to be either something he frequently buys (so I have new, clean stuff every time - sheets of MDF and coreflute fit that category - but those are not really big enough and are not white which gives badcolour casts most of the time. Or I can get something that rolls up and is fairly easy to clean/resistant to dirt. Paper does not work (we have a 3m wide roll of heavy paper but it marks very easily). I'm thinking of getting vinyl or perhaps cheap cloth.
What do other people use for studio shots of 2x1x1m-ish objects?
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I'm trying to avoid creating a whole photo studio since the space "available" is a factory where Ben builds the trikes. Hence, dirty and full of stuff. This was, I think, a failure of an idea - use the cloudy sky as the backdrop. Most were taken lying on the ground with people holding the trike 2m in the air over the photog. Too much backlighting to be usable I think.
Please excuse the slightly rough edit, I'm trying to test the idea rather than get perfect images immediately.
So: what can I do to reduce the backlight/give better front light. The flash was both not powerful enough and too good at lighting up the shiny bits. Generally using lighter-coloured trikes is not an option - dark colours are more popular.
I shot a pile more using a sheet of MDF as a backdrop which made the colours a bit interesting:
Anything I use out there has to be either something he frequently buys (so I have new, clean stuff every time - sheets of MDF and coreflute fit that category - but those are not really big enough and are not white which gives badcolour casts most of the time. Or I can get something that rolls up and is fairly easy to clean/resistant to dirt. Paper does not work (we have a 3m wide roll of heavy paper but it marks very easily). I'm thinking of getting vinyl or perhaps cheap cloth.
What do other people use for studio shots of 2x1x1m-ish objects?
(click for bigger images)(click for bigger images)
