Product Photography & Setting the Backdrop

Video Transcript

"Okay, well all I've done is I've set up my blue fabric just as something to hang my black velvet from, and here's one of the secrets of photography, its stuff called gaffer tape. It comes from the film industry and you can, today you can buy it at places where they rent cameras for professionals. Every town's going to have a place that allows you, where high end videography equipment is sold, and you can find gaffer tape there. This stuff is marvelous, it will stick anything to anything, and it will stay there, at least for a while. So here's one of the most challenging things, taping cloth to cloth, and watch how this gaffer tape makes it look easy. Alright, that gives us a background, enough of a height so that we've got plenty of space to work with, and I'm going to put my coffee can back into this area and let's just let it drape so that there's some interesting stuff going on. And there we have our background for our product."