Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb: A product photography lesson

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Behind the scene of an amazing product photography shot from our new contributor, Timothy Kou

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How to Make a Windex Bottle Look Beautiful: Post-Production

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Recently we had a Google+ “Studio Photography Insights” Hangout assignment to shoot a Windex bottle.

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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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8 Common Post-production Mistakes in Product Photography

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After watching a series of our Studio Photography Insights G+ Hangouts I’ve noticed common mistakes photographers do, and created this post to highlight them and help to solve them based on eight examples. The images I have selected are from our weekly assignments submissions, done by our hangout and assignment participants. These are very easy

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How to do Focus Stacking in Photoshop CS5. Jewelry photography post production.

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I noticed a big interest to the focus stacking topic. I will explain a post production part in Photoshop CS5 more detailed. You can read and see the video of a shooting part on Alex’s blog Focus stacking technique using Adobe Photoshop CS5

So, we have a sequence of images: 5, 8, 12. I mean,

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Light brush painting. Post-production.

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Recently Alex had a new post on Pixiq.com: Using light painting (lighting brush) technique in product photography. It’s not a new technique, we play with it almost 10 years ago, but I think this method is pretty spectacular and expressive.

At the same time working with a light brush is so very creative process that

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Routine job of a product photographer: kitchenware packaging for Walmart

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Shooting for Walmart: do you think it is cool?

I was cleaning our photobank on Drobo FS (8TB total and only 20% left empty), and found few images of the studio lighting setups from 2 years old photo-sessions we did for Walmart. That time we shot a lot of kitchenware for the product packaging. It

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Product Photography Behind the Scenes Video: Post Production

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The recorded LIVE broadcast from the product photography masterclass you can find on Alex’s blog. Here is the post production part with some explanations of what I did. Hope you will find it interesting:-)

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Photography for packaging: simple steps on how to have it done right

Atlanta product photography: grill press as-is image

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About 30% of studio work I do is for packaging, and I would like to share what I have learned. Simple tips and rules on how to make product look best on a package. Shooting product for a package sometimes is very similar to a catalog photography, or for a web

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Watch photo shoot: advantages of using tilt-shift camera adapter

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I continue to use my tilt-shift adapter for DSLR, and now I explore the limits of the system. Below is the watch, at a very narrow angle, shoot by using Rodenstock Rodagon APO 80mm F4 lens at aperture set to F16.

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The lighting schema

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