August 2020
Beginner
336 pages
8h 40m
English
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Chapter 9
Creating Still Life and Product Photography on the Cheap
IN THIS CHAPTER
Choosing shaped plates for still life arrangements
Photographing with mixed light
Creating a seamless background using Bristol board
Using opaque paper as a background
Choosing to photograph in both color and black and white
Adding negative space for text
This chapter is all about photographing objects to be used either for art or commerce. Do you have or plan to have an online store for your products? Do you want to create fine art photographic prints to sell online? If so, this chapter is for you.
Maybe you don’t really have any aspirations to photograph commercially. No problem! Please read this chapter anyway, as it has some helpful tips and tricks that apply to other photographic genres as well.
Camera Considerations
A still life photograph is usually an inanimate object that is somewhat small, ...