how was this photo taken

[jbird]

this a pic of are good member Bobcat how in your opinion was this photo achieved

Josh

[mendedbowl]

it looks like the camera was almost directly overhead, looking down onto the item laying flat on a surface...there is a cast shadow on all four sides...so i would say he used a light box with four lights (one on each side ) but with more intense light coming from the bottom right corner in the picture as it appears here.

hope this helps.

someone had a wonderful plan for a light box in another thread. it may be worth searching.

ken

[Billsotx]

this a pic of are good member Bobcat how in your opinion was this photo achieved

Josh

Check here: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=2260 ... and scroll down to CitizenKate's thread.

Edited April 14, 2009 by Billsotx

[sfcdan]

Harbor freight has a photography box with lights, and camera for less than 40 bucks. Don't know how good it is, but looks good. hope it helps, Daniel

[AndyL1]

this a pic of are good member Bobcat how in your opinion was this photo achieved

Josh

I'd say the product was taken under a soft box and then the image clipped out, shadows painted back in via Photoshop. The soft gradient in the background is most likely a layer in Photoshop too. At least that's how I would have done it.

-Andy

[Tina]

Hi Josh,

I played around with one of your newer photos today, this is the resault:-)

[jbird]

Tina

Wow how did you do that my goodness that's a lot better

Josh

Hi Josh,

I played around with one of your newer photos today, this is the resault:-)

[shirleyz]

Tina

Wow how did you do that my goodness that's a lot better

Josh

Yes Tina!

How did you do that?

Shirley

[CitizenKate]

Here's a nice little tutorial for stripping out the background and other tricks for enhancing your product images with Photoshop. Most other photo editing tools have similar features.

Click here

Kate

[Tina]

Kate gave you a really good link:-)

The lines, text etc. Learn how to work with layers. There are a numbers of tutorials (very good search word) out there for doing things like this, I could never ever make one as good but in short:

1. I croped away the background.

2. Made some shaddows that I thought was the right angle and such.

3. I made an extra layer, put i behind the object, shaded some colors and that's the new background.

4. another new layer ontop of everything to make the new thinn lines...then some shaddows.

5. the last layer for the text and again, some shaddows...Voila:-)

Edited April 24, 2009 by Tina