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After some advice people. My mother has started a arty crafty website, for selling all kinds of craft items.

Guess what my job is product shots. Things like stamp, tools, beads, glues, all that kinda thing, also papers with prints on.

Been messing about, and well cant get good results, lighing changes etc, dark images, shadows, not nice.

What would you people recomend, I saw this.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/16-Studio-Cub...61QQihZ013QQcategoryZ3860QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ideas please help, cheers
 
Seems a bit pricey to me.

I have achieved decent results with 2 desk lamps from Argos and a big sheet of white paper.

Much easy if you shoot in RAW, then make any necessary white balance changes later on to avoid a colour cast.

Also, if you can, use a triopod, that way you can get the lighting exactly right, get close in and not worry about shadows from your flash.

Hope that helps.

Anth.
 
Cheers mate, dont want to spend loads if I dont have too. Using the 400D for this, stuff, would a good flashgun be helpful?
 
I use the daylight bulbs to keep the colour temp correct. I use the same kind of set up above just to desk lamps daylight bulbs and some construction paper... really high tech!
 
Think I will have to give that a go, the argos site is full of halogen ones, anyone got apic of the kind of lamps they got. Sorry to be so think :) will be goign to get these tomorrow. I have some large card for backgounds
 
Right been loaned a Speedlight 580 and remote fire thingi.

Help on the lamps needed people, PLEASE :)
 
I personally just use box standard 60w bulbs in a box standard Argos £3.99 desk lamp. Any colour correction is done later via RAW white balance conversions.

Nothing major -all done for less than a tenner :lol:

ANTH
 
Liking the sounds of that one mate, esp with new cam purchace, and bank balance :)

I dont usually work in RAW, thing is I got over 1000 items to deal with, so less PC work the better.
 
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