Fair enough! If you get a chance to check out some of my more recent videos, I think you'll find some helpful clips and tips on light placement. Thanks for watching!
OMG, I have to try this now. I’ve struggled with shooting aluminum cans for so long. trying to remove that shadow and speculate highlight. Most of the tutorials online either remove it post, or they have some overly complicated lighting setup and requires me to solve a physics problem. Plus lighting a can as a flat lay vs lighting it when it’s upright, is completely different. So thank you, thank you, thank you!
I can't tell you how happy I am to hear that! I'm so glad you found it helpful - I think it's easy to overcomplicate these types of things so my goal with this video was to make it as simple as possible. Let me know how it goes and if you run into any issues, happy to help!
@@stephanieshaus I was actually messing with this the other day trying figure out how to light it and I was on the right track with front lighting, but I had the light in front of the camera instead of in-back of the camera. Your suggestion provides a lot more options to position the light a few different ways for different looks. And if you think about it, it makes sense since the shadow in the middle of the can is caused by the gap in the light. Darn science.
Hi there, great video very informative. I have a question, when you create a set around the product is that from a client brief or you are in full control of the creative? Your Set Builds around the product are very creative and that's where I have been struggling.
Hi Tony - fantastic question, and this is something that I used to struggle with quite a bit (and still do at times) and it really depends on the client. Sometimes a client will have more specific creative direction where they may specify what kind of glassware to use, how to garnish it, what types of props they want to see, etc. I've also had clients who like to leave all the creative direction up to me but either way, I always outline my image concepts for them to review and approve to make sure we're on the same page prior to a shoot. If there's something else that would be helpful in helping you generate more ideas, let me know and I can include that for future videos! Really appreciate you being here.
This was definitely helpful and very information ☺ please more like this. I didn't understand exactly where the light exactly Wass coming from - was it through the hole cut in the cardboard? love your videos Stephanie 🙏
Sorry for not being more clear on the light position! It was actually directly in front of the product, coming in from above the white piece of paper that I had placed on my camera lens. Sometimes front lighting can make the products look a bit flat and take away shadows, so that's where another piece of paper or even a black bounce card to shape the light and add a bit of a darker edge on the sides of the product will come in handy. Hope this helps!
Hi there - thanks so much for watching. This was shot with one light, no diffusion or modifier, and the light is placed in front of the product and slightly to the right hand side. I essentially built the reflectors around the light so that it was still able to shine through towards the front of the can.
@@oscillatingdecay this was shot with a continuous light - before I invested in a strobe. If I were to reshoot this today I would definitely try the same setup with a strobe!
I'm trying to photograph a coffee mug, it has a lot of reflection, too much. I will be placing transparent background images from Canva on top of the mug. The problem is the image is glowing and illuminated, especially in the areas where the mug is most reflective. So what happens is for example, if my image has two pink flowers, one on each side, one of them looks more of a muted matte pink on one side (where the mug is less reflective) and it is a bright pink on the other side (where the mug is more reflective). When I try to sell them on my website, it's not very pretty, the combo reflections from both the mug AND the image makes everything look cheap. If anyone has any suggestions, please help. Thanks so much. BTW, I have looked at TH-cam videos and tried different methods for the last three or four days, I'm trying not to give up.
Don't give up, Barbra! It sounds like you may benefit from a tutorial that's a little more specific to glassware. Is the mug you're photographing made of glass? I find that searching for bottled beverage tutorials - typically things like liquor or wine glasses are really useful for this sort of thing so maybe look into that! If your mug isn't made of glass, I think you will still pick up lots of helpful tips.
@stephanieshaus It's a white ceramic mug with a glossy finish. It's a sublimation mug, I think that's why it's glossy. I have found a solution, kinda lol. I bring the image of the mug into Photoshop then I place the design on top of it and in the layers panel I click multiply for the design and all the reflection leaves it's a pretty good fix for now.
Super useful video. In the future it would be nice to see where the light is actually placed
Fair enough! If you get a chance to check out some of my more recent videos, I think you'll find some helpful clips and tips on light placement. Thanks for watching!
OMG, I have to try this now.
I’ve struggled with shooting aluminum cans for so long. trying to remove that shadow and speculate highlight. Most of the tutorials online either remove it post, or they have some overly complicated lighting setup and requires me to solve a physics problem.
Plus lighting a can as a flat lay vs lighting it when it’s upright, is completely different.
So thank you, thank you, thank you!
I can't tell you how happy I am to hear that! I'm so glad you found it helpful - I think it's easy to overcomplicate these types of things so my goal with this video was to make it as simple as possible. Let me know how it goes and if you run into any issues, happy to help!
@@stephanieshaus I was actually messing with this the other day trying figure out how to light it and I was on the right track with front lighting, but I had the light in front of the camera instead of in-back of the camera.
Your suggestion provides a lot more options to position the light a few different ways for different looks. And if you think about it, it makes sense since the shadow in the middle of the can is caused by the gap in the light. Darn science.
@@CortexTelevision it's always nice after you've done all that messing around and then it finally just clicks!
Thank you for a more simple and not complicated special tools way to reduce glare
So glad it was helpful!
As always, amazing stuff!!
Appreciate that so much, thank you for being here!
Excellent presentation!!!
very heplfull , good simple way to do this.
Thanks so much for watching!
Tips and tricks. My respects!
That smooth gradient is seriously impressive!!
Thanks so much!
great video. really helpful. thanks!
I'm so glad, thank you for watching!
Hi there, great video very informative. I have a question, when you create a set around the product is that from a client brief or you are in full control of the creative? Your Set Builds around the product are very creative and that's where I have been struggling.
Hi Tony - fantastic question, and this is something that I used to struggle with quite a bit (and still do at times) and it really depends on the client. Sometimes a client will have more specific creative direction where they may specify what kind of glassware to use, how to garnish it, what types of props they want to see, etc. I've also had clients who like to leave all the creative direction up to me but either way, I always outline my image concepts for them to review and approve to make sure we're on the same page prior to a shoot. If there's something else that would be helpful in helping you generate more ideas, let me know and I can include that for future videos! Really appreciate you being here.
@@stephanieshaus Such a great topic for a video or a series of videos 🌱
@@SusanneGeert Love that idea ❤
This was definitely helpful and very information ☺ please more like this. I didn't understand exactly where the light exactly Wass coming from - was it through the hole cut in the cardboard? love your videos Stephanie 🙏
Sorry for not being more clear on the light position! It was actually directly in front of the product, coming in from above the white piece of paper that I had placed on my camera lens. Sometimes front lighting can make the products look a bit flat and take away shadows, so that's where another piece of paper or even a black bounce card to shape the light and add a bit of a darker edge on the sides of the product will come in handy. Hope this helps!
Love this! 🔥
Hello. Can you tell me how did you light this? (position,modifier ,etc.) I don’t think that was included in this tutorial. Thanks!
Hi there - thanks so much for watching. This was shot with one light, no diffusion or modifier, and the light is placed in front of the product and slightly to the right hand side. I essentially built the reflectors around the light so that it was still able to shine through towards the front of the can.
Just to add to this question, is this a cob light or a strobe?
@@oscillatingdecay This was a continuous light with no diffusion!
@@stephanieshaus Thanks for this answer. I too had the same question in my mind. Thank you for this great tutorial. Best wishes.
@@oscillatingdecay this was shot with a continuous light - before I invested in a strobe. If I were to reshoot this today I would definitely try the same setup with a strobe!
thank you for this :) Can you make a tutorial about flash photography one day plz I usually have difficulty with this. 😅
So glad this was helpful and yes! Would love to create one specific to flash - stay tuned!
Very Nice
You're amazing!!
Aww thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed.
Nice video
I'm trying to photograph a coffee mug, it has a lot of reflection, too much. I will be placing transparent background images from Canva on top of the mug. The problem is the image is glowing and illuminated, especially in the areas where the mug is most reflective. So what happens is for example, if my image has two pink flowers, one on each side, one of them looks more of a muted matte pink on one side (where the mug is less reflective) and it is a bright pink on the other side (where the mug is more reflective). When I try to sell them on my website, it's not very pretty, the combo reflections from both the mug AND the image makes everything look cheap. If anyone has any suggestions, please help. Thanks so much. BTW, I have looked at TH-cam videos and tried different methods for the last three or four days, I'm trying not to give up.
Don't give up, Barbra! It sounds like you may benefit from a tutorial that's a little more specific to glassware. Is the mug you're photographing made of glass? I find that searching for bottled beverage tutorials - typically things like liquor or wine glasses are really useful for this sort of thing so maybe look into that! If your mug isn't made of glass, I think you will still pick up lots of helpful tips.
@stephanieshaus It's a white ceramic mug with a glossy finish. It's a sublimation mug, I think that's why it's glossy. I have found a solution, kinda lol. I bring the image of the mug into Photoshop then I place the design on top of it and in the layers panel I click multiply for the design and all the reflection leaves it's a pretty good fix for now.