Posted by CallyAnn Hamilton on Jun 28, 2013 in Blog, Photography, Still-life & Product | 1 comment

Destiny and I had to hurry to photograph as many products as fast as we could to the best of our abilities at the latest shootout.  Our product options ranged from perfumes to pepper shakers to party favors.  Once again, I found lighting makes or breaks a shoot.  I had the opportunity to experiment with lots of different lighting set ups.   For the shootout each participant had to bring a product.  I brought these adorable salt and pepper shakers.  My roommate has a set just like this, and I thought they were so cute that I had to get my own.  The little owls also have a matching spoon rest, but I couldn’t figure out how to work it into this shot.   Apparently this stuff is a Bostonian favorite.  I was introduced to Fluff on our last excursion, but this was the first time I’d seen it in strawberry flavor.   Tacky shiny stuff.   In retrospect I should have been more careful to put better lighting on the logo and I would have loved to make the can look dewy with condensation, but I kinda like this shot anyway.   This is my favorite photo from the shoot-out.  I like to think it would look like a real ad with the right text and logos on it.   The lighting on this shot was particularly tricky. I think we had too many flashes, because most of the photos were drastically overexposed even though they were in such a dark container.  This is what the set-up looked like....