Lots and lots of photos
Photography is something that fascinates me and intrigues me. So when I decided to organise the product photography for Bytemart Limited I had not really grasped the concept of how much effort it was going to take.
First of all I put together a ‘lightbox’ to use as the environment to take the photos, this required some mounting board and a roll of white paper and some sticky-tape. One of the major features of this ‘lightbox’ was the lights (surprise surprise) daylight light-bulbs to be prescise, specialist suppliers only.
After putting the ‘lightbox’ together some testing was required to get the correct results, so lots of adjusting the camera settings and the environment. This required darkness to provide the quality I was after, duvet fasioned over the window helped to keep the room dark.
Once the environment was setup I started to take photos of the products, the entire contents of the box, the product from one angle of 8 different sides, another few from a lower and closer angle with some close-ups in there for good measure. Add that lot together with the 14 different products that are somewhat similar and there’s a requirement for about 280 finished photos!!
Doing a couple of the photo sets took a few hours, all in all it took about 1-2hrs to do each set. Multiply that by 14 and I realised I was going to in for the long-haul.
Cabin fever set in on Wednesday, and I tried my best to complete all the photo processing on Thursday morning, so by lunchtime I had finished. – No – wait – there’s a problem with a few of the photos! – what – what! – some of them have a ‘red hue’ to them. Oh, great. My stupid colour-blindness did not see that the white balance had changed and 4 sets of pics were rubbish. Another afternoon re-taking the photos that were ruined.
All in all the photos are really great, they can be seen on Bytemart’s Flickr
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