New to Product photography

c h u n k wrote:

Joel Klein wrote:

c h u n k wrote:

Joel Klein wrote:

c h u n k wrote:

Joel Klein wrote:

Thanks a ton.
I have not opened the B&H box yet.
It is very interesting what your saying that everything is a portrait, I can just pose the bottle like its a human.. lol…

I have grids on all softboxes. Although if the subject is wearing eye glasses I must take those grids off, otherwise I will see the grids reflected in the eye glasses no matter if I’m using a polarizing ring or not. So how in incognito wouldn’t those grids reflect on a bottle?

I watched the YouTube video someone linked above. He’s using 4 lights. And 3 softboxes with a PL filter and a remote shutter.

I have a good stand with a level, the remote shutter. 3 Godox AD300 pro’s. 4 softboxes the one in Amazon link, I have, I’m not really using it since I now have the 60” and 44” for mains and a 12” wide x 5 feet side kicker

I gauss I have to figure out how to build a table that could be disassembled. And a budget how much it will drag me in to get it right.

I’m just wondering about the B&H box. If you look online you’ll see customer submitted photos which doesn’t look that bad. Maybe its just not for a bottle

The video I was actually looking for shows how to more easily get similar results with just one or 2 lights. You set the bottle and obviously have camera on tripod and set to trigger remotely so nothing moves between camera and subject. Then you build the photo one piece at a time and easily combine in post. You can do back light/main bottle in one shot, left bottle one shot, right, top, label. But it looked better just to set main with softbox as back drop (which also gives a glow through bottle) and leave it. Then you can build the rest of the bottle. The issue is not softening edges of bottle with backlight. I got some decent shots before, but it was just a bottle of cheap cooking wine so I never took it beyond experimentation and feeling confident I could pull it off if needed. Then I went back to what I was really doing which was some waterdrop diffraction stuff. It really is just building the photo and problem solving...the hardest part seemed to be not getting reflections from random things in the room. I think once I took 2 or 3 more, I could probably crank them out. All I have to play with here now is red wine vinegar bottle lol. I dont drink.

That was a lot of rambling tonsay I dont think you need a 4 or 5 light set up, even if you want the same results.

Building the shots in Photoshop is not something I’m used to doing. I like to get a shot right the 1st time. But I digress, If I want to test this field successfully, I have to get it somewhere right.
I’m confused what to buy though. Maybe a trip to B&H

Oh man, if I was just a short drive from BH, Id be in big, big, BIG trouble.

If I was doing it, I wouldnt buy anythihg, but would use my white seemless (for what you say you need - I would prefer color or black bg and acrylic stand. 2 speedlites and my strobe. 2x40 inch soft boxes, some black and white posterboard for flagging/bouncing. Maybe my large softbox or octa for bg and backlighting....and 4 or so hours set aside for a 1st run.

** We can make our larger softboxes smaller with black posterboard, but I would use smaller if I had it. Just based on what experiementing taught me

acrylic stand I don’t have. Where do I find it? Link? Thanks

again whats the issue with big softboxes?

I just meant acrylic to put the bottle on. It is to give clean surface and some reflection. Plexiglass. I dont think that is what you would want if you just need solid white bg for website or Amazon or something though

I have white and black seamless paper.