Product Shots
(PS, comments got turned off somehow. They are back on if you want to leave any )
Ok lets hope the third time is the charm here. Im having blog issues.
My Photo Phriday tutorial today is on “Product” shots. You know how when you see things in ads, or on the web, sitting on a nice seamless background, they just seem a little bit more apealling? The same could be done with your family treasures. They sell “Table Top Studios” for a lot of money, I found one for as much as 199.00!!!!
Well you can accomplish almost the same effect, with a single sheet of paper. Heres an example of a shot I took a year or two ago, that shows you how it looks.
Here is the setup that I used:
The cool thing about MY desk is that I can use a magnet to hold up my paper. But you can use pretty much any 90 degree wall/counter and tape the paper. Also you might need to push the paper back so that its a LITTLE less curved. But I didnt have any tape :-0 I used my flash pointed up to the ceiling. If you dont have that option, then just expierament with distance and light diffusion (see my last Photo tutorial) .
Here’s how my photo turned out:
There ya go! This little guy has been with me since I was 3 years old!!! I’ll be doing a scrap page on him soon. He was with me in high school as well, in my pocket for every final exam! Unfortunatly, there are no photos of him other then these that I took. Just another reminder to photograph EVERYTHING. Cause it may not seem important today, but tomorrow it could be.
This wasnt as in depth as my original article, its gotten slimmed down each time I wrote it. If I had been at home, I could have reposted the original, but Im on my new laptop and didnt have it. (wel the second time I posted it, i wrote it then deleted the file after I saw it was posted. I dont know what happened to the post!) Anywho, thanks for listening, I hope you get something out of it 
….I also hope this post doesnt disapear lol.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Thank you so much – I have been looking for a little trick like this!
May 19th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Great technique. Thanks so much for sharing this!