Lighting Tips for Tabletop Photography

Video Transcript

"This is Anthony and we are going to talk today about tabletop photography, lighting tips. Now one of the best types of strobe lighting I like to use for tabletop photography is a nice couple of big soft boxes. Soft boxes are strobe units that have big white cloth box around them and I point them at 90 degree angles at my tabletop or some kind of angle and make the lighting interesting so that is one of the first lighting elements I like to use for tabletop photography. Also Iike to use natural light when I can if I have a diffused window pointed at my tabletop. Now that is not always possible in the studio so I really enjoy using the soft boxes. The other type of lighting that I like to use is an underlight I call it and that is a tabletop that I can see through and I have a light that will come up from the bottom and again it really depends on what I am photographing. Sometimes I will be photographing different types of scientific things that really need to look almost translucent where I c an almost build a layer of different types of whatever I am photographing so that back light or bottom light as I like to call it is very helpful. The other type of lighting or part of my lighting set up that I like to use is a monitor. When I am shooting digitally which is almost 90% of the time in my tabletop photography the image that I shoot transfers right away to my monitor and I have a very big monitor so I can instantly see what my lighting looks like and it helps me adjusting and tweak and make my product or whatever I am photographing on the tabletop look the way I want it to look and those are some great tips on how to light tabletop photography."