Hi all...I’m baackk....(in case you miss me).
I’m truly sorry for the two months hiatus on
this blog, was busy with lots of things (as usual) until I had a guilty
conscience for not updating this blog for so long.
There’ll be no new handcraft item for today’s
post, instead I’m going to share with you one of the important part of my handcraft
showcase in this blog – Photography. Before I proceed any further I have to say
that I am no expert in photography, I shot most of my product’s photos using my
smartphone’s camera – which explain all those crappy pictures. lol.
I always have trouble getting the right
picture – whether the image is out of focus, or the lighting is not enough, or an
overexposed photo etc. So I did some research and Google recommends me few tips
on how to take a better product photography. And here are the suggestion list
(and my answer for it):
1) Get yourself a good/decent DSLR
camera
(Well, not an option.
I’m going to stick with my phone camera for now until I have enough money to
buy that second hand Canon EOS 1000D on display at the camera shop)
2) Use adequate lighting, preferably
natural light
(I shot most of my photos
indoor at night after work so natural light is not an option. I did use some
extra lighting but shadows and overexposure is still a problem for me)
3) Use tripod unless you have a
steady hand
(Oh I’ll use my steady hands –
its a bit sweaty though)
4) Use a light box/tent
(Now thats might just
work...hmmm)
So I decided to try recommendation #4 to
improve my photo quality. In case you don’t know what a light tent is, I save your
Googling time with the explanation below:
The Society of Wedding & Potrait describe the Light tent as “ a tent like structure made
of translucent material hung around a frame. The fabric diffuses the light
coming from outside the tent so that highly reflective subjects placed inside
the tent can be photographed without reflections.
Another description from Right Light Studios
explains the light tent as “translucent fabric attached to a frame that surrounds
a subject. Typically used to reduce reflection from highly reflective subjects.
The light source is outside the enclosure, but the lens pokes through a hole in
the fabric.
As what the description says, light tent is use to reduce the reflection of highly reflective objects – like those metallic/glass
surface objects or shining jewelleries. It could also be use to eliminate
shadows – something that I’ve been trying to do all this time.
And of course you can buy a light tent from
Ebay or Amazon, or go DIY with the simple steps as shown in this Instructables.
I will do something similar with that instructables, albeit differently. I’m
going to construct a collapsible light tent using a box – so that I can pack
everything up once I done using it. As for the materials:
This is the box
This is the light source – don’t know what its call so I just named it bulb-holder-with-clip
The how-to-do-it process is quite simple that
I just summarized it in one GiF image:
And that’s how I did it
This is how it looks like with the light bulbs
on. Normally light tents have the light source located outside of the tent but
I don’t want to cut a hole to the cardboard wall, so I just place the bulb
inside. But doing so, I have to cover the bulb with white A4 paper to diffuse
the light. This is important so that you do not overexposed your photo subject
with the bright light.
I use my paper plant which i made sometime
ago as the photo subject this time. And here are the shots taken with the light
tent:
The photos might not be that great but it does save me time on photoshop editing. There are less shadows, a nice white background, and it looks brighter because the white walls and background reflected the white light from the bulb. Overall I’m satisfied with it and I hope that I can produce beautiful shots for my next craft project.
Till then, take care.
ardee
August 2015
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