From the course: Product Photography: Clothes and Textiles

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From the course: Product Photography: Clothes and Textiles

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(xylophone music) - Hello, I'm Konrad Eek, and I've been working as a commercial photographer, specializing in product photography, for over 20 years. What I'd like to share with you in this course are techniques for photographing textiles and clothing. We'll start off simple with a slant board shot of a sweater, exploring the styling techniques and lighting with two-point studio lighting, which will give us an opportunity to discuss ratioing strobes for proper exposure balance, and also to expose the texture of the garment we're working on. From there we'll move on to styling a shirt on a posable foam mannequin, and then lighting it using your dedicated camera strobe to get a well-balanced photograph that shows sort of human motion in this shirt on the posable mannequin. After that, we'll try Tungsten light on a chenille throw that we'll style on a chair in a room, sort of creating an environmental portrait of the textile. After that, we'll take a stack of beach towels, telling a color story, and we'll go outdoors and shoot in direct sun, exploring how those bright rays of the sun really help define the texture of the fabric. After that we'll do another color story using a fan of blouses and we'll shoot that in open shade, a very easy lighting method to approach. It's important to realize that product photography has many specific areas of expertise, and in this course, I hope to share with you the tools you'll need to master photography of textiles and clothing.

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