The Complete Commercial Photographer

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LARGE PRODUCTS ON LOCATION Products photographed on location are generally products that cannot be brought to the studio or maybe the client wants an environmental feel to the shot. They…

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This image is an example of large products on location where I could not take everything with me to do it the way I like. The reason was that we…

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The product below was placed on the seamless set up as a sweep. To get the reflection on the top surface of the product I again needed a large light…

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These lights were all different heights depending where they were placed and so they would not create reflections. The umbrellas on the side were fairly easy to position since raising…

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To make this work you have to be in a dark room or studio and have the lights off. You attached your PC cord to either a flash meter or…

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The Valve Warehouse This assignment was a different approach to a product photo. Here the client wanted to show volume of products in their warehouse rather than highlight an individual…

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I also wanted to light this somewhat intimately.  So I used two grids with warming gels on two lights.  One grid is at four o’clock and hitting the face of…

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A large light box was added to a boom and placed overhead of the hand and the bag and you can see the nice highlight along the edge of the…

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The Printing Company These next two photographs were taken for a printing company that wanted to update their brochure showing their services.  We had one day to get all the…

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He placed some empty boxes on a hand truck, grabbed a work order, and we positioned him.  Now was the time for dramatic lighting!

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The image on the top is the original digital capture while the image on the right is after the Photoshop work is done.  First, if you look at the interior…

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Once we were done with her in this position it was time to shoot the Interior of the car without her.  After she got out of the car and without…

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Next, I select the brush tool, changed my foreground color to white, and set an opacity of 21% and a flow of 100%.  I started painting on the black layer…

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This image shows the darker, ambient exposure that was taken without the strobe lights on.  As you can see, the umbrella does not reflect in the glass.

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The Jewelry Client I have a client who has a website that sells jewelry that’s imported from India.  Her business is a small business.  Because I am willing to work…

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Another approach to shooting the bracelet that’s seen in the other photo is to put it on a models arm or in this case the client’s arm. I then flip…

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Once we added the light box and lit it, it put an okay highlight on the shiny place inside the lid but the table still had problems.

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So I open this shot taken when I moved the frontal light box into the front to light the inside. The table is lit evenly but dark, so I open…

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The third layer took some blending effort to get it to match the brightness of the main table surface but after it was completed I notice that this narrow strip…

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The Wine Closet Part of a larger tourism assignment, I was asked for a ‘reasonably’ quick shot of this tiny wine room. There was barely enough room to get lights…

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After exposure was set for the strobes, the shutter speed was tested to determine just how much light form the lamps would be useful in this final exposure.

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So the next step is to select the Brush Tool. Highlight the layer mask and select white as the foreground color. With opacity between 20-40% begin painting inside the lamp…