Tag: Product Photography

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Still Here

Just an update on the current state of Lockdown 3.0

I’m here if you need me. A lot of what I normally do isn’t possible under the current restrictions but like many small businesses I’m trying to keep trading as much as I can.

I have some Commercial work still on: Product Photography, Digital Reproduction and Fine Art Printing can all be done safely without contact.

I am still processing print orders from Family, Communion and Confirmation sessions from last year (and the year before, and the year before that!)

So it’s a good time to look out those proofs and think about finally getting prints.

But I’m not in the office full time. I’m here when I need to be – generally mornings after the school drop (or after I make sure my home schooler is out of bed). So if you want to call in it’s best to phone to make sure I’m in the office when the time suits you – 087 683 8511

It’s no problem coming in to do something or meet you.

Otherwise I’ll be in my pink chair, drinking coffee in my garden – which is starting to spring to life again
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See Me

More product photos in the office today.  They can be tricky: balancing out white / shiny / transparent materials on a 255-white background.

As usual, the trick is to get  as much done in-camera and not rely too much on post production for whiting out the background, controlling / eliminating shadows etc.

But sometimes there just isn’t anywhere to hide – especially when you’re photographing curved shiny things.

In the surface of this bottle top, you have: my main light, the pack which is alongside it and all of the office around the other side.  Now I screened off most of the office junk with some black card but in post I noticed this weird reflection.

On closer inspection: it’s ME!!! – my shirt and my hand on the shutter release.

Now I could go back and reshoot with the cable release or the self timer but I think in this case photoshop will do.

Although part of me wants to be immortalised with the product.

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The Right Stuff

Times were tough as a 1980’s Lego Spaceman.  Long before Benny shot to cinematic fame, mini-figures where out there surviving against all odds.

In those days, if your head got stuck on tight, taking it off with someone’s teeth was the only way to go.  And you proudly bore the scars from finally getting it off.

Fun Fact: in the 1980s we didn’t actually have blue spacemen on this side of the Atlantic: only red and white.

Testing the macro set-up for a product shoot next week: Nikon D850; 105f2.8 macro @ f5.6; single SB-800 flash off-camera with shoot-through umbrella; SB-700 Master unit; Nikon CLS.  All Manual.

 

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Shooting Textiles in Bishopstown

Textile Photographer Cork
Ready for action

Thanks to all the members of Cork Textile Network who brought their work to Bishopstown Library on Saturday for photographs.  It’s great to see the wealth of creativity and craft that is brought to me every year for photographs.

The CTN Members are preparing for their annual exhibition in the School of Music coming soon.

And look out for CTN Member, Mary Palmer who is opening an exbibition of quilted pieces in Bishopstown Library later this week.

Good luck to you all and I look forward to seeing your work on display.