I wanted to produce some kind of product shot (I watched too much Karl Taylor)
so I chose the Praktica camera. I wanted a simple shot but it turned out
harder to make it interesting. For the background, I wanted to projects some
cool shadows kind of like the
light switch
shot.
We encountered 2 main issues. The first one was lighting our subject properly.
When we started, the setup was much closer to the wall. We wanted to be close
to the wall so we could see the shadows from the basket. But by being close to
the wall we underexposed our subject. If we went too strong, the light would
overpower the background. So we moved back and here's the setup:
Maybe we didn't need to move that far but what a difference in control it made.
We could properly lit our subject without interfering with the background.
Unfortunately, to get nice shadows on the background was harder now. We settled
with this. There are 2 flashes for the subject as you can see and there's also a
flash in the laundry basket on the left pointing to the wall.
These were shot with my Fujifilm X-T3 + Rokinon 50mm 1.2. This is out of
camera raw with Lightroom presets (Adobe Color):
I didn't like the burgundy table so I removed saturation in red, purple, and
magenta. Guess what I forgot to do again? Make sure there wasn't any dust. So
I spend some time to spot remove as much as I could. There's some local
adjustment to fix the shadows in the background and also some adjustments to
make the subject pop a bit more. A little bit of brown split toning for more
of a vintage look.
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50mm 1/125sec F/11 ISO 160
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A very simple shoot but I'm happy with the outcome. Over the winter I'll try
more product shots again.
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