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New to Product photography

Started 6 months ago | Questions thread
Joseph S Wisniewski Forum Pro • Posts: 35,461
That won’t work well. You will fight with it constantly
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Joel Klein wrote:

What about this idea?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1047137834/

Assuming that the cloth was even chosen to let you pump light into it from behind and beneath, that baby table has a sharp crease where backdrop meets table, and it has a bar behind that, which will cause a big dark band if you backlight it. (there's also the issue of the lack of bracing on the legs. I wouldn’t put a stuffed animal on that thing, let alone a live baby or an expensive bottle). There's a reason "product photography tables" are built like this:

https://www.amazon.com/lesolar-Photography-Plexiglass-Background-Exhibition/dp/B09XTP8BRG

Note how the curved plexiglass forms a "cove" with nothing behind it to cast a shadow? 2 or 3 lights and you can have the light beautifully even, or easily make a gradient, or add colored gels. It literally costs half as much as what you linked, but does a lot more. There are two baby pegs underneath to mount a light or two to light underneath. I typically use 5 lights: 1 under, 1 behind, 1 over, 1 left, 1 right.

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