Announcement: new masterclass is coming soon.

alex koloskov liquid splash advertisement photography masterclass

We almost got it ready.
A full length walk-through the shot, with the video, sample images and post-production. The masterclass won’t be free and can be purchased through the paypal. I am calling it masterclass, because it is not a classical tutorial: I’ll be showing how we did the shot, not how you should do

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Routine job of a product photographer: kitchenware packaging for Walmart.

tabletop photography ge panini  grill by koloskov

I was cleaning our photobank on  Drobo FS (8TB total and only 20% left empty), and found few images of the studio lighting setups from 2 years old photo-sessions we did for Walmart. That time we shot a lot of kitchenware for the product packaging. It was interesting time, as we learned a lot, often

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

Atlanta product photography: grill press as-is image

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

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Watch photography: advantages of tilt-shift camera adapter

I continue to use my tilt-shift adapter for DSLR, and now I explore the limits of the system.  Below is the watch, at a very narrow angle, shoot by using  Rodenstock Rodagon APO 80mm F4 lens at aperture set to F16.

The lighting schema is simple: two narrow soft boxes on top, each highlighted top and

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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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Water, stone and leaf images for stock. Products photography.

Got new phones...Products photography.

Recently we have upgraded our cell phones.. Why not to shoot them for a portfolio? So, 2 hours in a studio, two more in photo shop, and here is the result:

Was easy setup, 3 light sources: one from above, two from sides just a little behind. Only cleaning and fake reflection on a screen were

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Hand made pens (product photography)

Just fruits

Shooting for uniform catalog

Uniform catalog Atlanta photographer photo-session.