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Commercial Duvet Bedding Blanket Pillow Photography St. Petersburg Florida

Commercial bedding photography done in client's Clearwater home - Nikon D300 Tamron 17-50mm @ f/8 ISO 200 1 sec tripod mounted - Strobist: Nikon SB-800 @ 1/4 power in 43" brolly in foreground SB-600 @ 1/16th power in 43" shoot through umbrella background (window light in left background)Shooting on location (this time a residential Clearwater home) always presents unique challenges, as of course no two locations are exactly alike.  Shooting large objects on location can be especially challenging, especially so when they are in a small space.  My challenge with this commercial duvet, pillow & bedding shoot was to make the final images not look like they were merely taken within the client's own bedroom per se.  Using some set decoration (statue, clock, plant) and turning the negative of having a bright window behind the bed into a feature of the shot, was how I attempted to be as creative as possible within the bedroom location.

Commercial bedding photography done in client's Clearwater home - Nikon D300 Tamron 17-50mm @ f/8 ISO 200 1 sec tripod mounted - Strobist: Nikon SB-800 in 43" brolly in foreground SB-600 in 43" shoot through umbrella background (window light in left background)In the digital editing process I smoothed out the transition of full sunlight to orange wall removing all texture.  Contrast was selectively enhanced to compensate for the harsh light falling on the bed and lastly a softening filter was applied to the overall image as small details are a detriment to this type of shot.

DSLR Photography Lesson with Karin on product shots

A sample incomplete product shot of a Guy Harvey designed pillow in a homemade lightbox.New DSLR Photography Lesson student Karin has a booming pillow and cushion business featuring embroidered designs by Guy Harvey.  She has literally hundreds of variations of the pillows regarding design, color and border and she wants to have photographs of everyone one of those iterations on her business website for customers to browse and buy.  

She setup a very nice homemade lightbox (see my DIY attempt) in her office with multiple hot lights.  However, she was having white balance and overall image quality problems.  Well, I was able to sort out the white balance problem very quickly by setting her Canon XT with a custom white balance.  Thanks to Natasha who had a lesson earlier in the day and also has a Canon XT and showed me how to set the custom white balance on the XT!

After this we spent the rest of the lesson better arranging the proportions of the lightbox and discussing what photography gear Karin should next invest in.  Let's just say she is ready to make a significant investment!  I will be helping her get all her new stuff setup and running during our second lesson already scheduled for next week.  I am looking forward to continuing the interesting photography lesson-project with her! 

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