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Photography for packaging: simple steps on how to have it done right

Atlanta product photography: grill press as-is image

Atlanta product photography

About 30% of studio work  I do is for packaging, and  I would like to share what I have learned.
Simple tips and rules  on how to make product look best on a package. Shooting  product for a package sometimes is very similar to a catalog photography, or for a web (except resolution). However, there are few aspects which  photographer need to keep in mind during a shoot:

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Kitchen for food photographer: shiny and new!

We always had a kitchen in the studio, but was never actually shooting in it. It was mainly used for food preparation and styling, occasional party cooking, etc.  When I worked with Shirley Corriher, for a first time (see the result) , we used a kitchen a lot, most of  the cakes, biscuits and other sweeties which I do not know how to call, was made in our kitchen.

One of food images for Bakewise book

One of meals prepared in the kitchen for Bakewise book

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Liquid Photography: Pouring beer shot video

This is a video for my recent post, where I shot a glass of beer:

Enjoy!

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New Assignment: Beer, pouring beer and packed beer photographed.

Do you like a beer? I do,  a lot :-) .  Recently we met Jason,  co-owner of a new Atlanta  brewing company called Back Forty Beer Company.    This is how we got our new assignment: Beer and packaging shoot of “Naked Pig” ale:

Pouring beer image

Pouring beer image

The ale is really good, we have enjoyed it’s rich taste  after each pouring shoot :-) I especially like their slogan  “Get Naked and Enjoy!”

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Water splash photography (water splash with berries and apple)

Once again we were playing with water and fruits. Small inflated pool, 3 Canon Speedlite Flash units and some handy support hardware makes it possible. Around 1/10.000 second flash duration can freeze any splash, only you need to worry about is a light distribution: reflectors and white backdrops are must to be here.
I was using canon 180mm Macro lens with f16 aperture to increase DOF, as water was moving berries away from a focus plane during a splash. Berries and fruits were hang on a rails with help of tiny fishing line.
The results are below

Water splash photography with fruits

Water splash photography with fruits

Hith speed photography with fruits and water

Hith speed photography with fruits and water

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Chocolate cake for a food stock photography

A cake from a Whole Foods Grocery, same technique as we have used HERE, except white background. White because it was for a microstock, as they like products on a white. Start feeling that we’ll need to shoot more like this, as these images age quite popular on iStock and Shutterstock.

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Water splash and strawberry stock photos. I am a stock photographer too:-)

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water, water, everywhere.. Food and drink photographer.

We are continue to shoot water.. when we got time for this.
Below are some of the results:

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Water photography setup:-)

Have decided to try micro-stock agencies, like Shutterstock.com and iStock.com. Loaded several photos, mostly water splashes I did a while ago. So far Shutterstock.com isthe best, it start producing a revenue from the fist day. Not much, but considering that I have just a few photos there, it looks promising.

So, it appeared that I need to have more water waves, splashes, etc in my portfoilo. I do not have hi-speed flashes like broncolor pilse (yet:-) , so I found a very simple but still very good solution: 3 canon dedicated flash units with remote trigger:
It was a really messy setup. 

We have shoot hundreds of the photos, hopefully there will be at least 10-15 good ones:-)
However, the result was quite acceptable:

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New web site design has been released! Photo portfolio of Products/Food/Architecture photography.

Eventually we have updated our web site:
http://www.koloskov.com
The biggest advantage is a re-sizable content.
Also we have decided not to do any people/portraits anymore. Feels like need to narrow down my specialty.
However, I’ll miss our models:-)

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