Saturday, July 17, 2010

Tres-Noir Product Shoot

Played around with a new way to shoot sunglasses today.  I find myself battling lens reflections and have to spend way too much time in PS cleaning up.  I had worked it out in my head the last few days, but got frustrated and defeated when I tried it using 9' wide background paper.  I made a quick trip to Tuttle Camera on Atlantic in Long Beach and picked up a 4' wide roll.  I was relieved that worked much easier with narrower paper.  It actually turned out better than I thought.  Here are a few unedited images and you can see the reflections are minimal.  No more livingroom windows or tv! 

Shot with Canon 50D, 24-70mm L lens, two Alien Bees, unbrellas and a bounce.  Next time, I'll try a third light from directly above.