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10/08/2004 08:13:38 PM · #1 |
I have taken a break from entering challenges because I felt like I wasnt giving it my all.
I have also been quite busy lately with my kids. I have started selling in ebay so I could stay home with them.
With ebay I have been taking a lot of photos!
Too many to count! I have a few that I would I greatly appreciate any feedback on what I can do to improve on them...
I am back now fresh, open minded, maybe a new skill or better knoweledge of my cameras capabilities, and for sure I am going to top my own average photo scores in challenges.
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10/09/2004 03:51:47 AM · #2 |
| I like the colors of 3, 1, 2 , in that order. They all seem a bit soft, with the focus on the middle of the bowl and a shallow DOF and therefore the front is slightly out of focus. I would also go for a seamless background by using a material as surface which then bends up and becomes the background. |
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10/09/2004 05:15:22 AM · #3 |
| i'd deffinitely haveta agree with willem on his comments... secondly from what i see from the photos id imagine that you are using flash? if so be cafefull - you may want to introduce natural light to give it a warmer feel and also to reduce the glare that is reflecting off the surface however over all gr8 photos and keep it up |
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10/10/2004 09:45:00 AM · #4 |
Thankyou for the comments, they are helpfull, I will try today more light and the seamless background.
Anymore comments and suggestions are welcome, needed and greatly appreciated.
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10/10/2004 09:54:12 AM · #5 |
you'd be suprised how much better a white background would work with all of those. Photo stores sell "eggs" in which you put the product inside, and you can place lights outside the egg. Offers a Vertical View, 45 degree View, and horizontal view. It's designed specifically for product photography.
Heres a link to one =)
Hope this helps!
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10/10/2004 09:59:45 AM · #6 |
| I definitely agree that a seamless background would help eliminate a distraction. Also, your lighting seems uneven in all three pictures as the front of the bowls are well lit and then the lighting falls off from there. I would try to light the inside of the bowls, as well as, the background. To help eliminate any glare from using flash, you could try to use a diffuse source of light, such as a photographic umbrella, which I think would really help. If you want to create some lighting effect yourself without spending the money on an umbrella, then you could create a lighting tent yourself by surrounding the item with say bed sheets, and then shining lights through the sheets at different angles until you got the effect you want. Hopes this helped. |
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10/10/2004 10:04:12 AM · #7 |
Use a white or black background. A background can be a white sheet. Nothing fancy. :-) Don't use a flash. Use 2 lights, one on the right front and one on the left front. Experiment with the lighting to get it right. You know why it is grainy? Because lack of light.
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10/10/2004 12:13:40 PM · #8 |
Great tips yall Thankyou, I was reading some old post about tents..I am going to have make one. If someone was to come up with homemade light tents for sale I bet they would make a fortune cause photography suppliers are high and there is a big need for them specially ebay users.
I have been using 1 light I am defanetly going for the second..maybe a 3rd and atleast a white sheet draped over a frame.
Lighting has been a struggle for my photos and it shows in them.
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