
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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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 meals prepared in the kitchen for Bakewise book
Continue reading Kitchen for food photographer: small, but shiny and new!


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
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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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

Hith speed photography with fruits and water
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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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We are continue to shoot water.. when we got time for this.
Below are some of the results:

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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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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:-)

