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Creating clean and zen images

Creating clean and zen images

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Creating clean and zen images

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I really enjoy shooting photographs of my crafts on a nice clean white zem like background. And what I mean by zem like background, is simply setting a stage that is so pure and so airy. That when you look at the photo of the craft you just feel like you can breathe a little bit easier if there's a flow of air that goes around the craft. There's not a lot of contrast, but, what contrast there is is really highlighting the fine detail of the craft itself. So, now when I'm shooting craft photography in this way, I typically like to shoot in a very bright white room. Or in a light box that I've created, or on a piece of white foam core. And I typically set my camera either it's manual mode or to apurture priority mode. On a tripod just so I can be sure that I'm getting a really nice amount of light coming into my camera. And most of all, I want to remember not to ever have direct sunlight falling on my subject. Just high, high reflective light, or highly diffused light. That's going to…

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