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Lighting and shooting clothing on a foam model

Lighting and shooting clothing on a foam model - Photoshop Tutorial

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Lighting and shooting clothing on a foam model

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Now that we've finished styling the garment on Fomi, we're ready to go ahead with the first test shot. As you can see, I've already got the camera set up. I've switched it over to a vertical mode to match the positioning of the garment. That way we can fill the frame more effectively and get the best possible resolution. We're shooting in aperture priority with the aperture set at f8 to ensure that we have sharpness throughout the frame. Because we're not trying to make a background go soft or anything, I'm going to go ahead and shoot at f8, typically carries two, three feet a depth of field at this focal length and this distance. We're going to use on camera flash for our lighting and we're going to use a combination of bounce and kick, where we're going to bounce it off the ceiling which will provide overall illumination. And then we're going to have this little card that will provide kick forward to add a little bit of sparkle and help make the texture of the garment show. So we're…

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