From the course: Product Photography: Clothes and Textiles

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Lighting and shooting a photo of a blanket on a chair

Lighting and shooting a photo of a blanket on a chair - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Product Photography: Clothes and Textiles

Start my 1-month free trial

Lighting and shooting a photo of a blanket on a chair

“

Okay. We've completed the styling and now we've got the camera in position as well. Notice that I'm shooting with the camera quite a bit lower than you've seen it before. The reason being we're kind of main, we're trying to maintain the same sort of point of view that we've had in the previous shots where we're really looking directly into the center of whatever the textile product is we're focused on. And then I've composed for a crop. This shoots a fairly wide format, and we're shooting a fairly square object. So there's a little extraneous stuff in both sides of the frame that we'll crop out later on in post. So the camera's set, and now it's ready for me focus on lighting. We're going to be using continuous lighting and one of the issues you run into with continuous lighting is that whatever the brightest light is that's out there wins when you work with continuous. When we worked with the strobes, they've overpowered all the lights that have been set up for the actual film-making…

Contents