Kerry walks through a typical product shot

Kerry Garrison from http://cameradojo.com walks you through a very typical product shoot using Westcott Spiderlite TD-5's.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• photography
• lighting
• westcott
• products

[Trueshizz]

How come you phone you pictured had buttons on the left and right of the screen but the image you showed us only had buttons on the right of the screen?

[kerrycgarrison]

@Trueshizz There were multiple phones part of that product shoot. I never noticed that I used different final images.

[amamuffin]

could i buy these bulbs separately and make my own lamp on stand? what kind of bulbs are these exactly?

thanks so much

[kerrycgarrison]

@amamuffin You can buy daylight balanced fluorescent bulbs almost anywhere, including Home Depot, Amazon, etc.

[dreidesq]

I'm sure it's really obvious to everyone else but was there a reason why you wern't using a remote shutter with mirror lockup so you could time the shot of the display on the phone?

[kerrycgarrison]

@dreidesq Normally I do use a remote shutter, I was using the timer function because most people don't own a remote shutter and I wanted anyone to be able to replicate the results.

[amamuffin]

@amamuffin awesome! appreciate your reply!

[mushroomworks]

Great tutorial thank you very much!!

[CameraDojo]

@etsrlondon I usually shoot products at ISO 200. The white balance card is a WhiBal card.

[etsrlondon]

Hi

wondering what ISO you use on the camera? I've read somewhere to set it to 400 iso. Also what is the thing you put in the shot to check white balance, some kind of colour card? can you tell me the name / make?

many thanks

E

[dreidesq]

@kerrycgarrison Genius.