Question for Photogs; Pics of my Box!
 

I've got a little mainstream side gig that I am building up, and I wanted to be able to take pics that look like they do in catalogs.

I got some advice from quantum-x, and bought my camera. I'm camera stupid, and while it's not an upper class camera, it will suit my needs and then some. It's a Canon PowerShot DS850 IS Digital Elph.

Getting the images right is taken some doing. After several experiments, I decided that I needed a light box to get the look that I wanted.

I found instructions online, and put this together:

http://www.xxxkinkypics.com/box3.jpg

And I am pretty happy with it, because it lets me take this type of picture:

http://www.xxxkinkypics.com/test1.jpg

http://www.xxxkinkypics.com/test2.jpg

http://www.xxxkinkypics.com/test3.jpg

http://www.xxxkinkypics.com/test4.jpg

Is there anything I should be doing to make those better? Please keep my camera stupidity in mind with any suggestions. :)

And what can I do to stop relections like you can see in the lid of the Clinique jar? Would it work if I had another piece of posterboard to put behind the camera so that white was reflecting back?

Careful with that last photo. you can see your reflection in the lid.

See what she wrote ;)

in front of the camera and shoot through a hole is what I'd try. to be honest I would have to be there and just mess about with it for a while, then there's always photoshop to fix any problems.

you would be better served asking these questions on a camera forum. not many photographers here

Get some stiff white card cut a hole in the middle just large enough to stick your camera lens through, this will get rid of most of the reflection then use the photoshop clone tool to remove the last dot which will be the reflection of the lens in the cap..:thumbsup

ps turn off room light

This is not meant to be harsh or critical, but helpful. In the first two pics you need to angle the product so the customer can actually SEE the color of the powder. In the third you need to get the glow off the product name at the top of the tube, you can't read the name of the product. In the last, the cover of the product needs to be silver all around, not silver with some reflection in it.

Yeah I saw that after I posted. Sorry just really busy, but wanted to mention it.

:disgust :disgust

to my eye, there isn't enough light from the front and slightly too much from the back, the product titles and writings are hard to read as they are slightly in the shaddow

nice box ya made
and if anyone bitches that it's amateurish or ugly
who cares.. does the job as a real box would. so for the haters and whiners.. who cares. the box works

also.. yeah better photographer forums.. more info there i'd say
but nice nonetheless! :thumbsup

Hi Selena,

This might sound stupid but, please make sure the material you are using for your box is not going to catch on fire.

I think you are off to a fine start. The posts above have some good advice and remember PhotoShop is your friend.

Sometime it is good to pause and look at the picture you took the next day. I think everyone here as taken a picture one day they thought was great only to see it different the next day. Sort of like relationships :)

Kind Regards,

Les

saw this in skymall

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/730...p+photo+studio

pretty cool.. keep tweaking it till u get what u want. And use csc3 to whiten white when u need it..:2 cents:


good job on the box..:thumbsup

What a misleading title... :disgust:1orglaugh

Good job on the box... not the one I was hoping for tho...

I agree with above that you prob need a little more light up front, maybe from distant source so you do not blow it out. OR if you do shoot thru a white board as suggested then bounce a light off it to brighten the front more.

As bm bradley said, it would take just some playing around and trail/error but you seem to have a good start.

http://www.xxxkinkypics.com/test4.jpg

was that made in mexico?

I KNEW this was going to be about a light box before I clicked the thread.

Pretty cool though, even though I wanted to see real box. :)

Thanks everyone, these are just the kind of suggestions I was hoping for! I will keep fine tuning the process by using ideas mentioned.

I very much appreciate it!

And nope, tehHinjew...New York.