cheap and easy set up for taking pics of your work

[VoodooVixen]

Got this article in my inbox today and thought it was a great cheap way to take pics of your work and make them look amazing. I personally believe having good pics for either showing each other on here, or on a site like etsy or your own site is imperative.

Hope some of you out there will get something from it :)

Studio quality product photography (http://www.handmadeology.com/studio-quality-product-photography-with-a-12-set-up/?fb_action_ids=10151322403922380&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582)

[LooseSeal Baller]

cool thanks :D

[gambitglass]

I enjoyed the article. Thank You. I do feel like that foil may show up a bit in a highly reflective surface like glass. White acrylic also does a good job of bouncing light I have heard.

[VoodooVixen]

yeah, they say to use the dull side, and I'm sure it also depends on how bright of a natural light you have at the moment of the photo. I'll be trying this out when I go to take some pics of my stuff. I'll be using props on some stuff too, so I bet that would assist with the overall feel.

[Noggin]

Thanks for the link. I just setup a... setup two nights ago to put some pics online. The forum was down so I just tried random things. I got good results from using a white cardboard backdrop from walmart (like they make for 5th grade science fair presentations with the sides that fold out) and a piece of white card stock. I set up the cardboard with the sides sticking straight forward like a box with no front or top and laid in the white card paper so it sloped from the backing to the table. I shined three lights at the white cardboard but not aiming at the glass piece so the white reflects the light diffusely. The pictures turned out really well with no flash.

Im going to try this tonight to see if they turn out any different.

[elm744]

I got such a better picture doing it in front of a window with the reflectors then I have ever been able to with lights.

[waitojasi]

I do feel like that foil may show up a bit in a highly reflective surface like glass

[istandalone24/7]

thank you i needed something like that! my pics suck.

[Raimond]

​Good article, thanks for sharing.

[LarryC]

Nice article. One of the factors that is important is that your light sources be larger than the object. In this tutorial they are. In most commercial studios they use artificial lighting but always in large light boxes. This eliminates the hot spot reflections you see from the lights in most amateur pics. I do something like this for my larger glass vessels but with artificial lighting. For my marbles I can get away with just two bare lights in reflectors very close in.

[EmergentGlass]

holy fuck

[LarryC]

holy fuck

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[EmergentGlass]

nice article, i mean...