Shiny Chrome Objects Photography Workshop
Thursday 5th December - 15:00 GMT / 10:00 EST
LIVE WITH YOUR Q&A
We're back in the studio with Karl as he teaches some tips and tricks to capturing that perfect shine in chrome objects.
He will share the techniques needed to manipulate the light in and around your subject to create stunning images.
Join us as we reflect on technique, equipment and environment.
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Simply the best 2 hour 13 minutes of watching something. Thanks for taking the time to explain and show all the small little details.
Thank you!
At 2h01 you experienced glitches from Phocus software, I see software problems in quite few videos with Hasselblad software, I find it to be completely unprofessional for Hasselblad ; are they aware of these problems?, are they doing anything about it? I
have a H6D that has glitches and the battery annoying glitches when you don’t use your camera for a few days it’s asking to update but there’s nothing to update and Hasselblad, not only lied to me about them saying they were not aware about these issues but they never fixed them.
I know you experienced in your shoots before the software update warnings or firmware update warnings that appears when your battery is running low on power.
Do you know if PhaseOne Software is more reliable? Or are you aware if they even have glitches at all?
For photographers that don’t have anywhere your experience when Phocus is starting to malfunction you can quickly loose track of where you are at with your stacks or shoot and it can be devastating if you don’t know the software as well as you do and you don’t know the go around…
Karl from your first picture to the last one including all the stacks ; how many pictures was this shoot total?
Hi, I haven’t counted them but what’s the relevance? I shoot my lighting tests, composition tests, then a stack for one bit and then another? Like any shoot I’ll shoot however are needed. That might be 5 pictures it might be 500. Did you want me to go back to the actual project drives and count the amount shot, if you do I’d like to know why please?
At 2h02 when you manually ad few pictures that aren’t part of your focus stack, do you send them with your batch of focus stack to merging software? Do the pictures added needs to be in a special position inside the stack or they can be out of order relative to their focus, for example can you put the few extra pictures at beginning or end of the stack?
Hi, yes I send them to Helicon just the same and it will figure out which ones it needs automatically.
Hello Karl, I always gets fascinated on the choice of your backgrounds. Could you please advise the tiles you chose for the composition. Are they just white acrylic pieces cut into squares and then placed. Have you got them cut into that size or they are readily available?
Hi, yes they are from a sheet of 5mm solid white acrylic that I had my sign service company cut into tiles. You can see more on this is in the Channel perfume product photography classes, we also had black versions of the tiles made.
Hi Karl
Would I have gotten the same result if I had used, instead of a silver flag and stacking focus method for lighting the standing corkscrew, in a simpler way maybe a second strobe and tilt and shift lens?
Hi, it’s very unlikely that you would get the same result in anything if the approach is vastly different. By silver flag you mean silver reflector and as I pointed out in the show (you may have missed it) that the lighting on this corkscrew was based on the angles of reflectance and based on those physics the lighting had to come from the floor or at an acute close angle to bounce off of the surface of that corkscrew and back to camera so the answer to using a second strobe is probably not because you wouldn’t have been able to achieve the correct angle of reflectance. During the show I also explained how a tilt and shift lens wouldn’t have been efficient in this scenario because you had an opposing right angle and it would not have been beneficial to adjust the focal plane to one of them without deteriorating the other.
Ok, Thanks Karl
Some great tips covered here plus I will never trust a corkscrew again!
I think you’re OK as this incident was just a one off crime of passion 🙂