Underwater product photography

[Lencarta]

This is a fairly standard technique for advertising photographers, using the internal reflection principle that a lot of people use for portrait and product photography, i.e. creating reflections from shiny surfaces. All is explained in the video(s) which are now in the http://www.lencarta.com/2008122852/tutorials/index.php

Part 1
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Part 2
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[Hodders]

Interesting - but where did you get the brut !

 

[Rough Edges]

Superb pair of videos Garry, nice produced and easy to understand. Thanks for posting these...

 

[Garry Edwards]

Interesting - but where did you get the brut !

Tesco I think
I just used things I had lying around and took them to work with me...

I saw an advert on the box that includes a still of a smelly, using this technique so I thought it would be fun to make a video about it, as it isn't something that people are likely to discover unless they've worked in an advertising studio.