Tutorial Still life lighting tutorials

[Garry Edwards]

Garry Edwards submitted a new resource:

Still life lighting tutorials - Still life lighting tutorials

I'm producing a series of tutorials on still life lighting.
A lot of people seem to think that photographing products (or other still life subjects) just involves sticking the subject inside a light tent and shining some kind of lighting onto the tent, but of course that's the opposite of the reality.

Lighting still life subjects is about control of the shadows, enhancing the benefits of the subject and making the subject - any subject - look interesting and real.

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[Yv]

Excellent Garry, will be taking some time out to watch those later, I have learnt a lot about lighting whilst shooting products and have asked you in the past about this kind of thing so looking forward seeing these videos.

 

[cowasaki]

Excellent as usual Garry. Will be useful revision after the product photography course

 

[Garry Edwards]

I've now added another tutorial, this time on how to underlight bottles and similar.

 

[Garry Edwards]

And here is another one on the Lencarta lighting blog, this time on creating graduated specular highlights

 

[Garry Edwards]

2 more...

Both on lighting glass, which many people believe to be difficult but which in reality is very straightforward.

This one is on brightfield lighting, where only the background is lit, and this one is on darkfield lighting, where the subject is lit and the background isn't.

 

[Garry Edwards]

And another, this time on how to light bottles

 

[Garry Edwards]

And this one is on how to light shoes and similar subjects