Today I’m giving you a very quick behind the scenes look at how I sometimes photograph items for the site. I’ve got one style with a black background where I just point a speedlite at the ceiling, and then there is a more complicated setup, like what I did yesterday for the Zeiss 15mm f2.8 review.
Years ago, I took a box and glued white pieces of paper to it: the same type of paper that you would find in those large art sketch pads. I did this all over in varying layers. The front and top are cut off. On top of the setup, I usually place a light. In this case, it is my Chris Gampat Beauty Dish Hack and 580 EX II. However, I shot all of the photos with my Olympus 17mm f2.8 and EP2. In order to set the flash off, I needed a hard connection. My Phottix wireless triggers didn’t work, so I instead opted for Syl Arena’s OCF TTL cord. Olympus and Canon’s TTL systems don’t play nice together, so I set the flash to manual. Then I adjusted all of my settings and blasted the item with light.
Very little post-production was done to the images.
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