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Shooting a product shot on black glass

Shooting a product shot on black glass

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Shooting a product shot on black glass

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- One of the curious things about the internet age that we live in is that, because of Ebay and Craigslist, we've all kind of become amateur product photographers. And today on the Practicing Photographer, I want to show you a cool trick you can use to give your product photography a different look. If you're like me, most of the time if you're throwing something up on Ebay or Craigslist, you have a little light tent or something that you put it in, which gives you a nice white limbo background, and that's great, but we have something much cooler here. We have a black background that I want to show you. So I want to start by showing you the shot that we're going to take. And that's this one right here. I got this nice old camera here, sitting on this cool black background, with this slash of light behind it. And all of that is being made possible because of one very simple piece of technology, and that is this piece of…

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