Alright, Let's Do This Again. (aluminum foil, glass tables and shiny things..)

I really have no idea why I stopped posting stuff on this blog. I will just charge it to laziness, and yeah, lack of drive. It happens, sometimes. With that being said, this will be a very, very short post. I didn't take lots of BTS shots on the day because I really didn't know that I would be reviving this blog. Besides, I will be posting the youtube link where I got this awesome, awesome trick.

Anyway, let's do this thing again. On to expensive sparkly things!

It is very rare that I get out of this studio for a photo shoot. Usually, products are just sent to me and just shoot it on a white background, and then I pass it to our graphic artist and then call it a day. This time it was different. I needed to go on location and shoot these rings, which were to expensive to transport to our office so I had to be there and shoot.

This was not my first time to go there. I would be shooting the same rings that I shot a year ago, and I only found that out the moment I got to see the rings. Imagine my surprise.

But. The night before, I was scouring the internet on how to shoot rings, and I stumbled on a technique that required aluminum foil! Two posts ago, which was last January, I was pondering on the idea on how to use aluminum foil in product photography and here it is! It was exactly what I was looking for.

The setup.

Setup was really simple, just watch the link below for the detailed explanation. I just added two foam boards in front of the rings so that the white of the boards will reflect on the rings. The camera was in between the boards, I just forgot to draw it above.

I used a Canon 18-135 f3.5-5.6, at 135mm, with 1/125 shutter speed. 400 ISO.

Basically, you just need to put a light on top of glass, put it next to the rings, put crumpled foil on the background, put two reflectors and voila!

Here's the final product!

 Sidenotes:
- I will really update this blog regularly from now on.
- Macro lenses are damn important for my line of work.
- One light, yo.

Youtube link:




Cheers guys!