5 Essential Bottle Photography Tips in 5 minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 เม.ย. 2018
- Loads of people tell me how hard they find it to photograph bottles. Granted, it’s not easy but these 5 tips will help you to take an amazing packshot. Wish I’d known all this when I started!
1) Prepare your bottle!
2) Get the correct camera and subject position
3) Your back light is what will create the interior glow, positioning is key!
4) Use black card to bring back blown out edges
5) Cross polarization…magic
As a still life photographer you’ve got to be confident photographing any subject. Once you understand some basic principles, things like the angle of reflection and refraction, which I’ll explain in a later video, you’ll begin to become comfortable photographing anything.
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Thank you for sharing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, I'm down a product photography rabbit hole for bottles (learning to shoot my for my own alcohol bottle coming out). I think your video is the best one. The two cut out black bits really helps make things easier in photoshop which is better than what other people suggest (to hang a black card near the bottle on both sides and just take different composites then mash them together). Good stuff. Also saw your Haig video ad, fucking incredible
Great tips!
Love the tips but you really made the shiny bottle look matte. I would personally add another light with stripbox on one or both sides behing the glass and add a nice shiny gratient on the edges.
THE EDGE SOFTENS
Without any fuss. This has been the best photography tutorial of the many I've watched on YT. thanks!
I have to shoot 10 bottles individually but its only the label that changes. Once I have set up for the first shot I'm assuming it is easy to rattle off the next 9!?
The cross polarization is freaking genius.
Wow! I do 3D rendering of bottles and experienced some of the problems you address here. These tips work very well for 3D rendering as well!
THAT 5TH TIP THOUGH. DAMN!!
You know max is a good TH-camr when he still likes comments after 2 years.
I like your presentation,straight to the point, and a relatively simple/clean setup and I dont feel overwhelmed
This was awesome. Thanks so much for this! I love taking photos of bottles so I can’t wait to apply all of these tips.
this was awesome...the polarizer gel tip was the greatest. Thanks!
I think this is the best TH-cam video I have watched in months! Thank you very much for these tips.
You have the gift of teaching, THANK YOU! for such a great tutorial
This is the best and straight to the point that I have seen so far
A great teacher all the way, since you know the technics perfectly and how to transmit the keys to get such a great knowledge, Bravo...
One of the best tutorials! Better than other overly simple ones. This is the proper way!