How do I photograph sunglasses?

[Dag Nordsveen]

I´m going to photograph 20 suglasses.

Take a look at this link:



How do I take pictures like that? What do I do with the reflections in the glass?
Have a studio with 2 flashes with softbox, and a white background.
Use a Canon D30.

 

[Joe Marney]

Having worked with sunglass photographs, and in making them look their best, I would conclude that the photograph you displayed here simply used Photoshop to add the gradient to the sunglasses. Not all that hard to do.

I´m going to photograph 20 suglasses.

Take a look at this link:



How do I take pictures like that? What do I do with the reflections
in the glass?
Have a studio with 2 flashes with softbox, and a white background.
Use a Canon D30.

 

[Nils Petter Dale]

I haven't shot glasses or sunglasses for some time, but I agree with Joe. Also don't put the glasses on a big white background. It will be easier to balance them on the edge of something black and build the reflections you want in the glasses by adding different reflectors (clean uniform white cardboard or plain paper will do the job, in combination with a semi soft lightning from above somewhere. Clear the background and add shadows in Photoshop, if a white sheet under the glasses gives unwanted reflections.
NilsP

Having worked with sunglass photographs, and in making them look
their best, I would conclude that the photograph you displayed here
simply used Photoshop to add the gradient to the sunglasses. Not
all that hard to do.

Have a studio with 2 flashes with softbox, and a white background.
Use a Canon D30.

 

[Dag Nordsveen]

Do you mean that I should use a black background?

Having worked with sunglass photographs, and in making them look
their best, I would conclude that the photograph you displayed here
simply used Photoshop to add the gradient to the sunglasses. Not
all that hard to do.

Have a studio with 2 flashes with softbox, and a white background.
Use a Canon D30.

 

[Nils Petter Dale]

Sorry I'm unclear. The choice of background will depend on the result you want. My point was that if you put the glasses on a large white backgroud the glass lenses will reflect the white background (and you will see the background through the lenses if they are not mirror or very dark). This might be ok or exactly what you want, but if you start off by having no reflections (imagine the glasses suspended in a dark room) you have total control of the reflection and what you see through the glasses by adding reflectors. I often start out by putting a transparent object on a block of acrylic glass an light a background separately which is just big enough for the object.

My intention was to lead you to trying out how the glasses look and change as you add the light and reflections you want one by one.

Did this make any sense?
nilsP

Do you mean that I should use a black background?

 

[Dag Nordsveen]

Yepp!
Mutch better... Thanx!

Dag

My intention was to lead you to trying out how the glasses look and
change as you add the light and reflections you want one by one.

Did this make any sense?
nilsP

Do you mean that I should use a black background?

 

[Clark Hampton]

I´m going to photograph 20 suglasses.

Take a look at this link:



How do I take pictures like that? What do I do with the reflections
in the glass?
Have a studio with 2 flashes with softbox, and a white background.
Use a Canon D30.

 

[Marc Young]

The link to the picture is not active, so bear with me on this related question. If I want to photograph a person indoors wearing sunglasses (i.e., posing next to something interesting, or whatever), how do I light it so that the glare is minimal off the glasses, and so that you can see the person's eyes, though dimmed? I tried this with a single softbox aimed from 3 different heights and always got glare. I didn't try umbrellas or cloth screens since the setup time was too long. Is the only solution to post process the picture and adjust out the glare?