Product Photography With D90

[harlandcorp]

Hi

We have been taking product photographs for our website where we sell hair extensions. It is important to get accurate colours as customers buy products to match their hair colour. We have finally found the best settings to capture colours on our Nikon D90 but we can't seem to make the background stay white without editing the levels afterwards on Photoshop. Ideally we want to keep the settings for the colours but also keep the white background so we don't have to edit each photo afterwards.

Settings:
F5.6
1/400
ISO 800

Here are the pictures:

Image 1

The photo on the right is what we want to achieve without editing. Is this possible or will we always have to edit to achieve that look?

Cheers
Tim

 

[SThornton]

How is the lighting of the product set up? Are you using an on-camera flash?

 

[ernesto]

You are making a massive assumption that the customers screens will be calibrated the same as yours (they won't be).
Buying a product on the web when colour is very critical is never going to turn out well...

 

[MikeDB]

It's possible, many different ways. The easiest would be to photograph your products on a lightbox (there are many tutorials on making these) or failing that a folding table-top studio, not expensive, loads of ebay users use them. The background only really needs to be 1/2 - 1 stop over your subject.

Mike

 

[AshleyC]

are you doing a white balance setting on your D90? get a gray card and do a meter reading off that.

 

[Tigger.ufo]

You are making a massive assumption that the customers screens will be calibrated the same as yours (they won't be).
Buying a product on the web when colour is very critical is never going to turn out well...

Heather

 

[Garry Edwards]

It's possible, many different ways. The easiest would be to photograph your products on a lightbox (there are many tutorials on making these) or failing that a folding table-top studio, not expensive, loads of ebay users use them. The background only really needs to be 1/2 - 1 stop over your subject.

Mike

Either use a backlit background or separate the subject from the background (by putting the subjects on a perfectly clean glass shelf fixed some distance above the background) and light the background separately, to make it white.