Wow, a week has almost passed since my last blog post… oops! Didn’t mean to abandon you, really!
As usual, it has been another full-on week with lots happening in our little Perth based Photography Studio here in Kelmscott. This week has been full of shoes. Women’s shoes specifically – and lot’s of ‘em. Now before you get too much more into that train of thought you are on let me clarify this a little bit.
I was able to secure a job for a client who owns a shoe store. They wanted images of their new spring stock to go onto their website. Cool I thought, I hadn’t used my light tent for some time so I thought this could be fun.
So, a couple of advantages here. I quite enjoy using the light tent to shoot product because it is quite different from the usual modelling and portrait photography that I am used to. It also means that I can really utilise the full potential of the brilliant live-tethered shooting application by Fujifilm – HyperUtility HS-V3. There are a few tethered shooting options out there for Nikon and Canon shooters; but this puppy from Fujifilm is awesome. Combine it with the live-view function on the Fujifilm S5 Pro D-SLR and product photography really is a joy. Just put a shoe in the light tent, sit down at your PC and start shooting. Live-view will show you how the shot is composed in the viewfinder before the image is captured, and if it didn’t capture correctly you can adjust ALL, yes I do mean all of the camera’s shooting parameters right from your PC. Very cool. So even though the product itself really didn’t do much for me it was a pleasure to do this job.
When I shoot product however I do like to shoot it ½ to 1 stop underexposed so that, even though I shoot in RAW in the studio, I ensure that the images are captured without any blown out highlights which are essentially un-recoverable; even if you are shooting RAW. But this has issues of it’s own in that every single image needs some post production work done to it. Enter stage left Photoshop! In the following very low-fi (for the sake of your bandwidth) home made tutorial I show you some quick and easy masking techniques. I hope you like it.
Well there you go, simple but tells a story! Finally, I had the pleasure of enduring the Emergency Room at my local hospital this evening after our 13 month old son took a bit of a dive and appeared to really hurt his hip and left leg. Two and a half hours and three doctors later we were assured that the little guy had only done some soft tissue damage and he’ll be right in a day or two. Thank God. I started to get a little worried as patients started queuing into the waiting room coughing and spluttering who-knows-what out into the air; quickly followed by hospital staff running to them and handing out masks of a different kind to those I showed you in the video. Sign of the times I guess…
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