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Summary: Create studio-quality photos at home. Learn how to create and use makeshift photography equipment in this free product photography lesson from an experienced commercial photographer.

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Dan'L Terry is a nationally award-winning artist/designer. His art has been exhibited in national juried shows and museums, on the covers of books and magazines, and in feature films,...read more

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" Let me start off by saying we're going to do product photography for the home maker. I'm not going to assume that you have access to the kinds of lighting that is in the studio in which we're working, but you're going to have to make due. You're not a professional. This is photography for the dummies or for the people that just don't have a lot of equipment floating around. So we're going to work with minimal kinds of equipment. We're going to work with things that we find around the house in order to create the illusions that are possible if you have access to fancy photography equipment like this soft box. Not likely you have one of these in your closet unless you're a pretty serious amateur photographer. So we're going to make due with things that you might have around the house that creates the same illusion in the final photograph as that fancy multi hundred dollar unit that you've got there. We do have some things that are going to be critical to have. You're going to have to have something that you can put lights on or stands. It doesn't matter what kinds of lights. We'll talk about that in a little while, but something to get light up where you want it. The whole job of photography and product photography is controlling the lighting in the room in which you are going to be shooting. Controlling the lighting on the object, controlling the lighting on the backgrounds, so you need to have some lights and you need ways of getting those lights where you want them and moving them around so that you've got some control over how the light reflection bounces off of reflective objects like shiny metal or lacquer, lacquer dakar finishes."

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