Smick Product Photography Tutorial

Product photography tutorial presented by Gavin Hoey showing the high power tabletop lighting kit from smick.co.uk shows how to take pictures on whit and black backgrounds using home made lighting table.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Gavin Hoey
• product photography
• tabletop photography
• smick

[soufiane37]

What is the best course of action:

Take a photo of a light object with a white background.

or

Take a photo of a light object against a dark background and edit the dark background into white with editing software.

In case of the latter, which software do you guys recommend?

[smickphoto]

@soufiane37 Take on a white background and use Photoshop to edit.

[nelog1967]

hi,

Thanks for the tips. I just want to find out, what was the setting of the camera in the first picture? and it became better at the second picture because of the exposure? would you be able to tell me please what changes he did at the settings of his camera? thanks a lot.

[smickphoto]

@nelog1967 The answer is in the video you use exposure compensation to alter the exposure.

[0BoxHead0]

Hey Gavin,

Um just a quick question, how many mm is you lens that your using in this video?

[smickphoto]

@0BoxHead0 You won't find Gavin here he is at his own channel PhotoGavin the lens he uses most is 24 x 105

[3n31h3m]

great tutorial

[greensphera]

@jessi330 ... You must search for 5000K or 5500K fluorescent light bulbs. They will provide a natural daylight color‎ and are often used in photography to create an even light‎. The color temperature of the 5000K light bulb will be printed on the ‎package and also they usually have key words like daylight, cold white, ‎cool, cool white.‎

[cpippindia]

I am new in photography. and i like this video. Because there have lots of necessary things to learn about photography. Thank you for sharing your good ideas .

[marcoboaro]

you can also put a layer or two of greaseproof paper to soften light

it's cheap and safe, and it's used even in tv sets!

[threestacks1020]

i am confused about the lighting. What exactly are you using in this video? I want to buy the same exact Light bulbs and Lamp.

[Jase989]

Great video, as with most thing photography, there is loads of ways to do the same thing. You could use a 18% grey card to pre-configure white balance to ensure the white background is pure white.

Also spot meter on the tea pot and use exposure lock when you have everything perfect. Just a suggestion

[smickphoto]

@2006kcl What poster board?