Cocktail Bar and Product Photography Tips (www.dombower.com) Caorunn Gin

[darnsmall]

Great advice, thank you so much...really like your attitude towards all the stakeholders, and professional approach

[SRAphotog]

when you did the bar shooting at 1/40th / 1/50th of a second did you use a monopod at all?

[wwconsult]

Fantastically helpful for the bar shoot I am planning for next week.

[DRAGONDEMON69]

great tips,,,, Digital Dandy lion,,, never thought to do something like that,,,, I will start thank you!!!!!!

[Axxex]

@dombower Dude ur the best, always clear and informative i like the idea of the light writting. i'll  look for a tutorial thanks.

[sixstringsixshooter]

How do you decide who gets the royalties to the images for this scenario? Also, do you use flash in the bar scene?

[dombower]

@sixstringsixshooter i keep the royalties. and no, no flash

[max7164]

Great tip about work coming to you if you're generous.

[AndyBJ]

Hi man, great job!

"digital dandelion", will be using that one!

Cheers.

[jeeytan55]

Thanks dom! Cant wait for your next post. Best wishes from singapore

[jeeytan55]

Hi dom this is a very great tip/ video. May i know though if you used any speedlight in your shots inside the club? I really liked the effect of the ambient light in the pub but i never get it in my shots. They are either too bright ( if with flash) or too dark ( if without) . Thanks dom!!!

[dombower]

in a place like this bar no, never used flash. got another shoot with them this tuesday in a brighter bar, will bring flash but doubt ill use it. just use high iso and fast lenses ie f1.4

[dsportuk]

some good and bad advice...the worse advice you can ever give is that you should give all of your images out for free as the most important thing is that they get seen by someone!!

[dombower]

@dsportuk i said give some of them for free.

give them a couple, if they like them they can ask for them in big size and then you can charge.

i didnt say give them all of your images for free. and it was in an email. so not exactly big size

[dsportuk]

@dombower actually you said you gave them to the company for free and when they said they needed them quickly you said where do you live I will get them to you in 10 minutes! and you gave them the memory card.

Do they give their products away for free...I doubt it very much otherwise they would not be in business long

[dombower]

no, this was a pre paid job for a gin promoter, but the bar brambles was where it was held, i gave brambles some images as they were cool with me going round taking phtoos of them and theguests and gave me free drinks.

[dombower]

also please stop trying to be a smart arse.

[sahlind]

Great vid and great tips. Thanks for sharing!

[SteU4IA]

"digital dandelion"

excellent! lol

[lorikzzz]

hey dom!! your flickr account doesn't apear when i search you

[limclone]

Thanks for the advise Dom! I have a few bar jobs coming up because of your advises!

[kotsunagi]

you mentioned giving the images you took to the bar for free. Do you put any water mark or indication that it is your work? is it a good idea to put a watermark in something that you are giving for free?

[dombower]

if i do it is a small water mark at the bottom right. or the images i give them are usually small res, if they use them on their website i ask they credit me, but the idea is more to get them to go ,"ooh nice photos can you do a protrait for us? "

[rhowell5]

Another excellent vid Dom!! Great work!! I was wondering if you could do a detalied tutorial on Vertical Panoramas, from camera setup to editing sofware. I'v been looking all over for a good tutorial on this topic but can not find one. Hope you'll consider it. Thanks!

[wxb200]

You're awesome... Keep up the good work!

[edgarbarradaskate]

I'm a big fan of yours

i got you in my favorites bar and always cheking your website for more vids and tutorials

thanks to you i have learn a lot of things and ideas

Thanks Dom!!!

[lopezae33]

i really liked the shots of the bottle and the light pens. fantastic job cant wait for the next video!!

[colinstu]

also, can you show us those light pens? and maybe some tutorials of things to do with them for a future video?

I've done long shutter speed pics with a lamp w/ an exposed light bulb, but it was quite ackward.

Also, can you damage the sensor by have too much bright light? Like if you let the shutter open @ the sun or something?

[colinstu]

How do you do the shots where you have the background motion-blurry, and the hand in focus and not motion-y at all?

I've tried it before... and I just can't do it. How the heck can you hold your hand so still?

[RickBradRB1]

Dom another great and informative video.. I am currently looking at starting some photography work with a view to doing semi pro/pro work in the future...i fully agree with your Philosophy on do shoots/work for free to get noticed and get your name out their. Hence my arranging photowalks (have one this sat) and being active on forums/flickr and shooting birthday parties of friends and friends of friends for free. Thanks for sharing Dom.

[dombower]

good work and if people like your shots they will tell others and pass on the word.

[roger767]

did you have permission from all the bar-goers to photograph them?

[dombower]

ah yes good question! well this event was an invite only and on the invite it stated that they had to agree to photos being taken. however their is no rule regarding having perision to take someones photo (otherwise paparazzi would be out of a job) and also i am not controling the images i am handding them over to the marketing company so if they use them they have to gain any permission needed. (good point though)

[docrjay]

This is one of the reason why I subscribed your channel. Great stuff man. Keep up that mantra of giving, it will surely return..

[dombower]

and it sure is for me. got lots of jobs out of my free stuff.

[phototecglobal]

Thanx for sharing your work again Dom, something you said in your vid about giving free images away, I've attended certain events and produced a free disk to the band, company etc. I've been criticised for doing this for free but I see it as promoting yourself when your starting at the bottom. It's nice to see that some one of your calibre identifies with my theory, I know longer have to feel stupid or cheap, haha! Thanx again.

[dombower]

as long as you are not giving away your prized possesions, giving away some shots you ahve on the side is never a bad thing. it gets you out there and if someone likes one of your images they may commission you to do a portrait or shoot for them. thats pretty much how i have got all my jobs so far.  (ill make a quick video about the benefits of giving stuff away for free)

[phototecglobal]

A video on this subject would be very beneficial to a lot of people, most certainly myself. Your time and effort is appreciated by myself and many others I'm sure. Wish you all the best!

[WillDavidClarke]

Thanks very much dom, really apprechiate it! Very useful and interesting...Thanks again!