Product Photography

I recently had the chance to do a product shoot for a local Oakville business named Saratina Bridal Boutique. They are looking at updating their website and I offered to take some shots of a few dresses as I was looking for some more images for my wedding photography business Colosseum Productions and this opportunity fit in perfectly.

It also allowed to get back in the studio, something I hadn't done in awhile excluding some recent commercials I had shot on video but I was eager to get my strobes back out, set up a backdrop and create some images I think the owners at Saratina's will be proud to display both online and in print if they so desire.

I pulled out a backdrop I hadn't used in years and I think you can see from the images in this post that it worked our really well. It allows the beautiful white dresses to really pop and stand out against it. I used a 2 light set up shot through umbrellas to get a nice soft evenly lit image with the lights placed more to the sides of the dresses than to the front to highlight the texture and lines of the fabric.

                                                    

I shot at f-4.0 so as to give a slight blur to the background to try and minimize any wrinkles in the muslin backdrop. Exposure was critical as I didn't want to blow out any of the details of the white dresses. Spill from the two strobes only resulted in about a 1 sop drop-off at the backdrop.

I ended up shooting 5 dresses of various styles shooting both from the back and front as well as close-ups of various details, included in this post is just a small sampling of some of the images.

I was quite happy with the results and definitely ended up achieving my goal of creating some nice images to put on my website and also giving the girls at Saratina's something they can use to proudly show the quality of items in their store.