Dealing with Reflective Glossy Objects in Product Photography

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BTS video of glossy rabbits shot

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Liquid splash creatures for your inspiration

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The most exiting liquid sculpting photographs for you inspiration. Enjoy and share this gallery:-)

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HDR in example. How was processed this picture.

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These are the images before and after post-production. Below I’ll show how I did it step by step. I use a different workflow for every HDR photo, and this is one of them. All manipulations with this image are non destructive. You can go back to any step and change all parameters.

The source (middle

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Studio Photography Insights: Shooting glossy reflective objects

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So, this is out weekly hangout. (the rest of them are here: Studio Photography Insights)

This time we had Bill Cahill with us, and it was a pretty interesting talk. Dave Nitsche was late because I had troubles inviting him: am I getting that bad ?

In general, dealing with the shiny subjects is the

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Recent liquid shots: Passion Flower and Milky iPhone

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Recipe is simple:

Get good amount of inspiration, mix with few cups of curiosity and roll it on tick layer of experience. Then add few drops of luck and stir hard with passion. At the end let it cool for a few hours and check the result. If not satisfied, repeat everything. Serve with exciting:-)

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Product photography tip: The fast and easy way to clean dust.

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You can always use usual cleaning tools like Clone Stamp and Healing Brush. However for product photography I like to use Photoshop Filters and Masking. Let me show how I do it? Below you can find the simple steps:

1. Open the image and Duplicate Layer

This is 100% crop of the cosmetic brush

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Melting Flower: our recent shot for a tutorial in “Lite It” magazine

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This is what we have created last week:

The Melting Flower

The Melting Flower

 

The whole behind the scene walkthrough will be published in “Lite It” magazine. I do not have iPad so not sure how I’ll look at the article. Hope some of my blog reader has it and will be able

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Making of: The Beer shot

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Behind the scene video from “The Beer shot”, step-by-step guide on how the shot was done.

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Studio Photography Insights #11: free shot

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This is our number 11 hangout.

[box type=attention size=full color=yellow]Next Weekly Assignment is a glossy/ hi-reflective (preferably rounded or spherical) subject. The idea is to learn/demonstrate how to deal with one of the most challenging stuff for a studio photographer: unwanted reflections. The deal is not only in how to

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The making of: X-rated Liqueur alcohol beverage shot

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As promised, this is behind the scene of the X-rated French liqueur shot.

Like I mentioned before, I’ve used dry ice and color gels to get the shot. This is a screenshot of the lighting setup form the video (for those who can’t play video alone here):

The Lighting setup

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