Professional still life photography getting started tutorial

Still life photography is the entire photography field integral part, when you are in some fashion magazine's cover to see those fine jewelry, there are a variety of perfume bottles, is not it will get a surprise: why did the same thing, in the photographer's hand can make it vivid, but in their own hands shot out like ordinary? in addition to the perturbation

Still life photography is the entire photography field integral part, when you are in some fashion magazine's cover to see those fine jewelry, there are a variety of perfume bottles, is not it will get a surprise: why did the same thing, in the photographer's hand can make it vivid, but in their own hands shot out like ordinary? in addition to photography skills, still life photography for equipment also has special needs, have a good platform, often in shooting more with less.

Still life photography preparation

Usually still life photography, black and white background.

If the black as the background, you need at least 2 blocks of black cloth, and then fold them into a cube, you can use the wire in the corner, so relatively stable support. Top and front requires empty, and then in the cube above approximately 50cm place la a thin wire or glass line (we recommend using glass line, because in the light of exposure, not easy to wear to help), secured with a clip. In shooting, small jewelry can be hung with glass line, perfume bottles, heavier objects directly on the bottom. White scenery is the same reason.

Figure 1

Fabric choices

However the above this DIY way effect is not good, first of all, the choice of the fabrics, soft cloth surface is so smooth, followed by light refraction nor laws, it is also the location of the light source, adjust, inflexible so I recommend that you purchase a collapse still life box, the current domestic cities of photographic equipment market you can buy very cheap in price from $ 70-$ 300.

With this kind of still life box, we can easily be arranged outdoors too and complexity of the sun into a soft light for the unity we take some small jewelry and still life, is very useful, of course, there is a stable source of light in the room, the better (as in Figure 1).

Figure 2

Lighting choice

As regards light, because we are all photography enthusiasts, it is not possible to invest to buy so expensive professional photographic lighting, so we're using local materials.

For example, table lamps, requires two (preferably three), one as the primary source of light, another as photosource. The best is the incandescent light bulb, brightness uniformity, the main light source lamp power 80W can associate light source at 30 ~ 40W, if it can't find incandescent bulbs, the energy-saving lamps also can, but be sure to warm up 10 minutes after such brightness of stability, to continue to the next step (Figure 2).