after learning about product photography last week a booked a session in the studio in order to practice this as it was something I had never done before and I wanted to practice and experiment with different products and backgrounds in order to create more interesting images.
The technique we learned about was focus stacking and this is when you take multiple photos of an object but change the focus point with each image, you then blend all the images together to create a photo that is fully in focus giving a sharp and high quality appearance to the object.
This was the photo I took in class when learning about the technique.
I was happy with how this turned out as i managed to get the whole product in focus, however I wanted to experiment with using different objects, compositions and backgrounds in order to make the photos more exciting.
I starting by doing some research into product photography and the objects I was going to use in order to get some inspiration for my shoot. Below are images of product photography and the type of photos I wanted to recreate.
The photos I took:
I think these images show an improvement from the first product shot I did as they are a lot more creative. when selecting backgrounds I thought a lot about the context of the product and who the target audience for it would be. For the perfume shoot a lot of advertisement for that perfume used the colour and references to gold in order to convey a theme of luxury, i therefore used a silk scarf in order to create a soft, smooth golden background that loosely links to the appearance of liquid gold.
For the makeup shots I used pink paper so that the products would stand out more and also because makeup if often linked to women and pink is stereo-typically a very feminine colour. One thing i found challenging when composing these images was the fact that my camera only has a small range of points to focus meaning I couldn't always get focus on all corners of the product. However to overcome this in future I could just place my product in the centre of the shot and then use cropping to have it positioned where I want.
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