Product shots, critiques please.

blackwaterstudio

I've been messing around with some nic-naks. These were shot in my little ghetto home studio.

Let me know what you think.

BridgeCity

Shots look good! Any chance you could shoot with a polorizer to eliminate glare? The bright spot on #1 is sort of distracting. Love #2 though!

Do you make these? Or were you just playing with them?

blackwaterstudio

BridgeCity wrote:

Shots look good! Any chance you could shoot with a polorizer to eliminate glare? The bright spot on #1 is sort of distracting. Love #2 though!

Do you make these? Or were you just playing with them?

Yea I could have shot with it, but didn't think so.

Just playing around with them. Trying to hone my skills

TristanP

I prefer the second - nice and even. I don't dig the lighting in the first. Something about the difference between the bright and darker sides.

amc

jdsphotography wrote:

I've been messing around with some nic-naks. These were shot in my little ghetto home studio.
Let me know what you think.

I like both shots, to the extent that I wouldn't even bother nic-nak-picking about anything. Well-composed and enjoyable to view. Nice work, jds!

blackwaterstudio

Same two, using a different background

wxwax

The darker background's much better. The lighting looks really harsh on the white background.

IMHO (I've never done what you're doing so take my feedback FWIW) you might look at ways to smooth the light, and ease the transitions from lighter to darker. Also, that cloth backdrop looks very homemade, not buttoned-up professional.

blackwaterstudio

wxwax wrote:

The darker background's much better. The lighting looks really harsh on the white background.

IMHO (I've never done what you're doing so take my feedback FWIW) you might look at ways to smooth the light, and ease the transitions from lighter to darker. Also, that cloth backdrop looks very homemade, not buttoned-up professional.

Yea it was just a rag I had laying around and it was darker at the time so I tried it. I'm going to look for some cloth this afternoon and see what I can come up with.

Michiel de Brieder

wxwax wrote:

The darker background's much better. The lighting looks really harsh on the white background.

IMHO (I've never done what you're doing so take my feedback FWIW) you might look at ways to smooth the light, and ease the transitions from lighter to darker. Also, that cloth backdrop looks very homemade, not buttoned-up professional.

I agree with the waxalator!

The darker pics are better, but I'd try to smooth 'the rag' Or perhaps get some black velvet cloth.
Anyway, I couldn't have done it any better
Thanks for sharing!

blackwaterstudio

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

I agree with the waxalator!

The darker pics are better, but I'd try to smooth 'the rag' Or perhaps get some black velvet cloth.
Anyway, I couldn't have done it any better
Thanks for sharing!

haha, yea I need to see if the local wally world has some I can buy

mercphoto

jdsphotography wrote:

Same two, using a different background

The dark background looks much better on the angel, predominantly because it is mostly white to begin with. It stands apart from the background better now. For the same reason don't photograph clear glass on white. Use black, or some dark color.

The bear did fine on white. My only complaint about the second background is if you gently curve the towel as it transitions from flat to vertical then you won't see a "seam" at that spot in the background.

Nice shots! Oh, and the polarizer would help a bit. Overall though nice. If you really want to get fancy, find an environmental location, and be careful with the choice of focus, depth of field, and lighting.

blackwaterstudio

Thanks, went to walmart tonight and picked up 4 yards of a black silk like cloth. Should make for a great background for larger things such as people, etc.