How to shoot glass: setting the lighting for tabletop product photography

glass product photography final example by product photographer

Working with class is among of most enjoyable or me: I love the clarity and transparency of  the glass, it is almost like working with water (my another favorite subject).
Here I would like to show you how we did on one of our recent assignment: client wanted to have nice looking pictures of the award

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Studio lighting setup for a uniform catalog: Refrigiwear photoshoot.

studio lighting setup for commercial photoshoot

After we have successfully done a boots catalog photography for Refrigiwear, they decided to go with us on the rest of their 2010 catalog. This time we had a uniform 7+ hours photo-shoot with 4 models,  about 30-40 outfits and four people (not counting  photographer  helping  in a studio.

It was fun: Four ladies from Refrigiwear

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The beauty of glass and aluminum: Atlanta photographer on location shoot

Last week I had this nice assignment: on-location  shoot for Vieler International LP (www.vieler.com). The company was established in 1913, now 3rd generation  100% family-owned business, specializing in architectural hardware out of stainless steel and aluminum: high quality door and window hardware, shop fitting systems and much more. When I’ve checked the company website (after

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Kitchen for food photographer: shiny and new!

One of food images for Bakewise book

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

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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!

Kitchenware Photosession: shooting highly reflective objects

Product kitchen Photography. Kettle.

Everyone knows how tricky may be a shooting reflective object, especially if the object  is spherical shaped or cylinder, like a kettle.  Recently we had a photo session for a new Walmart kitchenware, and I want to share some tips and trick I was using to get it done.

First, a kettle:

It was a mirror-like chrome

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Photo-session Warehouseman of the Year 2009 Winners for RefrigiWear, Inc.

Warehouseman of the Year 2009 photoshoot for RefrigiWear, Inc.

Did you ever feel what a frozen chicken feels ? I recently had a chance to get an idea :-)

I was hired to shoot annual winners for Refrigiwear, Inc. These tough guys are working in a huge warehouse refrigerators and freezers,  25F – 0F temperatures around! It was  quite refreshing environment to work :-)  I

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

Pouring beer image

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:

The ale is really good, we have enjoyed it’s rich taste  after each

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