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Something very unique about the tutorials the level of details and information is mind-boggling which is very fast pace go as you learn style. I was wondering have ever considered making the whole tutorials available as download I will definitely pay for them.
Hi Justin, I'm a 65 year old photographer who's been a pro for over 33 years (after switching from engineering) and do all kinds of photography. I LOVE watching your stuff, and learn something new every time, goes to prove you can learn new trix eh! Am so happy to see you back. respect bro!
God I love this channel! No BS, you always offer or show budget friendly options and proves art doesn't need the top of the line tools always. It's nice to see a RUclipsr say "these are cheap" and actually be cheap, not cost a couple hundred bucks
Thank you for being so straight forward and actually showing the process! This is so helpful for me to see how you tweak and go through the workflow of getting that final image.
I work in e-commerce for a small company and was curious about other people do product photography. Loved every minute of this. Thanks a bunch for this video!
Your product photography videos are fantastic. I love that you don't skip the details and try to rush the video; You take the time to show us all the problem solving you considered and all the post processing. Keep it up!
Very nice. Good job showing and explaining everything. Been doing this professionally for decades, and I still learned stuff! One thing that I do differently in post, which may be helpful, is that when I do my tiny repairs (as you did with the dust and smudges), I don't clone the base layer; I just add a new blank layer above it and make the repairs on that layer. The repair tools still all work (as long as you have "All Layers" or "Current & Below" clicked on), and you keep all the work you've done on the base layer, and the repairs are isolated by themselves. This allows tweaks to the repair layer (e.g., tonal adjustments, blurring, etc.) without disturbing the main image. Just food for thought...there are many ways to do many things! One of the great benefits of a video such as this, is to share it to a client who balks at the price you quote for a product shoot. I tell my clients that the shoot-to-post ratio can easily be 1:5, or even higher, and showing them a video such as this may keep the whining down.
Great tip Peter thanks, I like how that preserves your original layer. Great point about the post production output ratio... some people fire through shots quick and that's their business model but I think there's a great place for very intentional shooting & editing & tweaking.
I have never touched a camera, but i always find myself drawn to your videos! There is just something so satisfying about someone sharing their craft. Keep up the good work!
I've been searching for how to photograph products on white background all over and finally found your video. Great job and thanks for including the Photoshop side!
I have to tip my hat to you! Your creative solutions to creating your images is superb. Your Photoshop skills is unbelievable, I've been working with Photoshop for 25 years and your skills blow me out of the water
Your videos are amazing - concise, helpful and you present well. I especially like how this one was technically difficult and touched on the common challenges with product photography.
Another great video Dustin, the longer video time is very welcome, I loved that you went into more detail in the post processing side. Looking forward to the next one.
Awesome, being comfortable in post-production makes this whole genre a lot easier to digest! I'm excited to share future post-productions with you ASAP Chris! :)
I've just found your paypal.me link in the description on this video. I have made a donation. Hopefully others will follow suit in rewarding you in what I feel to be excellent, informative, free, tutorial content.
Great videos. The best thing about your videos is you talk through everything and show both the photoshoot and the retouching. Thats where a lot of videos miss.
As always fantastic video, great in depth explanations and I’m loving this new longer and more involved tutorial it’s almost like were there with you Dustin! Great to see you back I was starting to worry you had stopped posting new videos 👍👍👍
Only halfway through the tutorial I already have to commend this young man's pretty much ideal presentation style ! He seems to be a natural and should definitely stick to doing photography instruction if he wants to. Just my 2 Euro cents. I also appreciate that you guys linked to the products you used on Amazon Germany.
"we have the text swimming in a dark sea of pixel information" just love the way you describe your world. Fantastic videos both for the photographic content and your incredible use of the English language :)
I only have my camera and tripod. However your videos help me a lot to create a bottle photo for a new brand of beer. I made it whit the light in my cellphone, reflecting the light whit a paper. Even you show how to do it with a kit of lighting i tried to apply with a simple light, and it work so well (at least for me). Thank you so much! I don't know how to show you the result because i haven't upload yet.
Great important post, where you make the main focus, really makes me happy for its necessary of importance. After all it is a great article with everything. Thanks in advance for posting it.
For the dust blower, I picked up a handheld pump sprayer off Amazon (can probably get them at Princess Auto, Canadian Tire, Harbor Frieght, Home Depot, etc...), just pump it up with air, and then you have 1L of pressurized air to spray with. It's like a reusable can of air, and you can customize the stream of air by turning the nozzle.
Wow really amazing results in a simple video 10/10 just ordered studio flash set, and going to try this when they arrive (with my d800) Thanks and Greetins From Finland
Great tutorial Dustin. I’ve spent the last 14 years photographing these kind of products for a large UK retailer and understand fully how awkward something like this can be to shoot. Looking forward to checking out you’re other videos.
Fell asleep watching a RUclips video and woke up to your tutorial playing an hour or so later haha. What a strange way to find a new channel. Great content though. Subbed!
Man, this was one gorgeous piece of tutorial. Such quality work, I really hope your channel is filled with this kind of videos because I am right now pressing the Subscribe button hehehehe. Cheers man, great work!
and you didn't disappoint, because your channel IS filled with extreme high quality content! man, I already watched like 7 videos from your channel and I find your work absolutely inspiring, specially the ones where you use just 1 flash to get a marvelous result. Please more of these 1 flash videos! And it also definetly convinced me of the quality of the Yongnuo speedlights! Thanks again mate! Congratulations!
If I may suggest, use the healing brush tool instead of the patch tool. You will do it much faster and never loose detail, just toggle between darken and lighten modes depending on color of dust. It's much faster because you don't need to go selecting around your particles. Excellent video, getting better and better; I do enjoy them a lot, cheers!
Vibing your product tutorials, just a suggestion but could you create a series of videos focused of showing the basics of post in photoshop, masking, compositing etc that can be applied to your tutorials? :)
workphlo I am not new to studio photography tutorials, in fact, the first tutorial I watched was like 10 years ago (Lynda.com) or similar platform. Still, I find your videos are my favorite because the level of editing skills and the studio hardware you use match with mine, also the message delivery style you adopt is the type I prefer. Good luck, I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
#replaylightingtips. Thanks, was looking for lighting suggestions and stumbled upon your tutorials. Deeply intellectual instructions which fuel inspiration and workflow tweaking. Thanks again for your assistance as a canary from the treetop.📸🎞🦉👍🏆
Tip: Attach a piece of thin, flexible but controllable plastic tubing, to a syringe. Add a couple drops of glycerine to the cofee and mix it in (best done in another container and then added to the carafe in order to keep the glass clean... consider using a tube and funnel to fill the carafe.) Just before shooting for the carafe, insert the tubing from the syringe through any found opening, in order to get the tip of it just under the liquid at the glass. Now gently depress the syringe while moving the tubing about an inch and a-half along the glass. You should be left with a line of fine bubbles that give a subtle hint of life to the product. Practice makes perfect.
Newbie question here: Wouldn't this be easier to photograph if you used a continuous video led panel light? I just saw a video on Falcon Eyes light panels and they were amazing. I really don't know and you're the professional. Oh, by the way, I found workphlo because I searching for lights for product photography and I don't know where to start.
Learned about your stuff when i was looking for diy product photography. I’m so glad coz i do have the same equipment like youys - yongnuo, neewer and a kit lens! and just ordered a strip box. I’m about to make my first product shoot for a brewery. Your videos just resonated to newbies like me. Thank you sir! Any suggestion for camera setting on a 50mm lens?
Hi there I have been a huge fan of your work and appreciate for your contributions in the community. I learned a lot from you. I am trying to set up a small professional studio for product photography and need guidance what lights or flash should I buy. It would be a great help. Thx
I've got exactly same Godox octagonal umbrella and 1 clamp reflector holder :))) but i never used that umbrella yet... what are u using as table, light stand and some bracket on it? Thanks for lesson btw
Great work! Question . . . the text / consumer information on the side of the coffee pot . . . what was your reason for leaving it there? Would it look too fake and post processed if it were stamped out? Thanks.
By lighting through a diffused backdrop (same method you are using) I am experiencing some light hazing on the subject. Any ideas how to get around that? Stopping down certainly helps but background exposure suffers. Btw love the videos! Thanks
Yo Danny! Try and bring black cards to the right and left of the subject. See our most recent speedlight compositing episode, showing how I create blockers around the object to prevent this phenomena.
Hey dude! Really helpful breakdown, thanks a lot for that! My knowledge about lighting is still really small. I don’t understand why the logo becomes brighter but the rest (middle part and background) darker by using this little grid softbox. Could you please explain?
Not sure about rest getting 'darker' could have been lighting changing in a room with ISO as a factor - but the grid helps control the light to ONLY go where that label is so it is isolating the spill.
Another incredible video Dustin. I have a quite interesting suggestion for a possible video. You spoke a lot about 255 white so I began to wonder what lighting precautions do you take when photographing white objects on white background and black objects of black background to ensure elements don't clip or crush into the seamless? Anyway great video and keep it up! I can see your channel growing.
Chevy-Jordan Thompson Thanks! Awesone suggestion, certainly will be interesting airing out those technical dilemmas. I'll work on that episode! Cheers and thanks again for stumbling upon workphlo. 📸
I'm learning a lot thanks. But if you had it at 16 bit, color gradient would look much more smoother. You wouldn't have to use any kind of blur effect to smooth out surface. Of course the file size would be at least doubled.
Hey Jan! My tripod head connection has been slipping, so when I go vertical sometimes very subtly the layers don't line up. And since it's rotating the camera down, it changes the whole perspective and gets tricky! A few people have asked this... haha must replace it soon! Cheers
how do u make the background that white? Also I'm taking tshirt pictures with my phone, but even with 2 softboxes, the plain white shirt is a darker gray in some area. Do I only do it in a dark room with no light coming in or is it because the phone's camera makes it dark and I should use a DSLR instead? thank you so much (:
DSLRs give you more precise control, but we are releasing a video soon using a phone. I will try and link it to you. Make sure join our Facebook Group it's all about those questions!
Hey Dustin! I have two simple questions and I would highly appreciate if you can help me out. At 26:02, what is the hot key you used for pasting white into the mask? And would this image be possible to create with just one light and stripbox by lighting up the backside first, then angular sides blended with lighten mode on post and adding the logo details on front.
@@workphlo I mean that would it be possible to create the exact same shot with one speedlight&stripbox instead of two? Would just have to composite more?
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wat size is the stripbox? do u think its possible to use speedlights with a strip box of lets say 30 X 120cm?
Something very unique about the tutorials the level of details and information is mind-boggling which is very fast pace go as you learn style. I was wondering have ever considered making the whole tutorials available as download I will definitely pay for them.
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Hi Justin, I'm a 65 year old photographer who's been a pro for over 33 years (after switching from engineering) and do all kinds of photography.
I LOVE watching your stuff, and learn something new every time, goes to prove you can learn new trix eh!
Am so happy to see you back. respect bro!
Hey there! Thank you so much. That's a very respectable run at photography, all the best to you.
God I love this channel! No BS, you always offer or show budget friendly options and proves art doesn't need the top of the line tools always. It's nice to see a RUclipsr say "these are cheap" and actually be cheap, not cost a couple hundred bucks
Yes, I have always used the cheapest equipment pretty much!
Thank you for being so straight forward and actually showing the process! This is so helpful for me to see how you tweak and go through the workflow of getting that final image.
Thanks Haley, I'm glad this helped you.
I work in e-commerce for a small company and was curious about other people do product photography. Loved every minute of this. Thanks a bunch for this video!
Awesome, check our Facebook Group we can connect more!
Your product photography videos are fantastic. I love that you don't skip the details and try to rush the video; You take the time to show us all the problem solving you considered and all the post processing. Keep it up!
Alberto Alanis, thank-you very much! A lot of fun stuff in the works and I will try and keep the style going!
Very nice. Good job showing and explaining everything. Been doing this professionally for decades, and I still learned stuff! One thing that I do differently in post, which may be helpful, is that when I do my tiny repairs (as you did with the dust and smudges), I don't clone the base layer; I just add a new blank layer above it and make the repairs on that layer. The repair tools still all work (as long as you have "All Layers" or "Current & Below" clicked on), and you keep all the work you've done on the base layer, and the repairs are isolated by themselves. This allows tweaks to the repair layer (e.g., tonal adjustments, blurring, etc.) without disturbing the main image. Just food for thought...there are many ways to do many things! One of the great benefits of a video such as this, is to share it to a client who balks at the price you quote for a product shoot. I tell my clients that the shoot-to-post ratio can easily be 1:5, or even higher, and showing them a video such as this may keep the whining down.
Great tip Peter thanks, I like how that preserves your original layer. Great point about the post production output ratio... some people fire through shots quick and that's their business model but I think there's a great place for very intentional shooting & editing & tweaking.
I have never touched a camera, but i always find myself drawn to your videos! There is just something so satisfying about someone sharing their craft. Keep up the good work!
We really appreciate that, Thank-you!
You are a wealth of information and I love your style of presenting it. Like the Bob Ross of product photography. I could watch for hours.
Thank you Jeffrey, you're too nice!
Your videos are some of the best I’ve seen for product photography on RUclips, they’re jam packed with useful tips and tricks
Thank you! I love product photography
Great tutorial Dustin! you make it really clear and simple, and most important with cheap equipment and great results!
Thank you! We hand make these stands now on our website workphlo.ca cheers
I've been searching for how to photograph products on white background all over and finally found your video. Great job and thanks for including the Photoshop side!
High quality tutorials - definitely will return over and over. Thank you.
Awesome, thank you!
Dustin, beauty video, thanks so much for taking the time. I'm always blown away by your PS skills!
Cheers, I do like Photoshop.
This is like a workshop value, thanks for sharing, it is really awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have to tip my hat to you! Your creative solutions to creating your images is superb. Your Photoshop skills is unbelievable, I've been working with Photoshop for 25 years and your skills blow me out of the water
Thank you so much for saying all that, I just caught this now
What a flawless coverage man!! Rlly appreciate ur efforts 👌
Love love this. Super clear and instructive. Love the links to all your stuff too!
Glad you like them! More in the works so stay tuned.
My favorite new channel. I’m learning so much!
As usual! this is just cool stuff you are teaching, Dustin :) Keep it up!!
Thanks! I found I enjoyed filming "how to photograph products on a white background" very much!
Your videos are amazing - concise, helpful and you present well. I especially like how this one was technically difficult and touched on the common challenges with product photography.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for that insight
Trank you so much! I Love your Tutorials. I learned some useful tricks
Greetings from Germany
Great to hear!
Another great video Dustin, the longer video time is very welcome, I loved that you went into more detail in the post processing side. Looking forward to the next one.
I really appreciate that Chris, I'll definitely post longer form content again :)
You're welcome. I look forward to all of your videos. I love the post processing aspect as well as that is one of the area's I am trying to master.
Awesome, being comfortable in post-production makes this whole genre a lot easier to digest! I'm excited to share future post-productions with you ASAP Chris! :)
I've just found your paypal.me link in the description on this video. I have made a donation. Hopefully others will follow suit in rewarding you in what I feel to be excellent, informative, free, tutorial content.
Chris Parry Appreciated beyond words
Great videos. The best thing about your videos is you talk through everything and show both the photoshoot and the retouching. Thats where a lot of videos miss.
Thanks! It took some time to get the formula down, but I love the long-form teaching
As always fantastic video, great in depth explanations and I’m loving this new longer and more involved tutorial it’s almost like were there with you Dustin! Great to see you back I was starting to worry you had stopped posting new videos 👍👍👍
Thanks as always! Don't worry I'm not going anywhere, quite the opposite actually (-:
Amazing loved it. Thank you
Awesome, thanks
Your videos are so informative, I've just binge watch them all!! Keep up the good work! I'll be using your links :)
Thank-you Diana Peterson! I'd appreciate that (-:
Thanks a million for your detailed explanation and excellent work out of such simple gear!
So pls keep up and cheers !!!
Tony! Thanks boss I appreciate it
The best workflow tutorial on product photography I've found so far. Thanks for this. Subbed.
Cheers Matias
really love your video so much, Thanks
Only halfway through the tutorial I already have to commend this young man's pretty much ideal presentation style ! He seems to be a natural and should definitely stick to doing photography instruction if he wants to. Just my 2 Euro cents.
I also appreciate that you guys linked to the products you used on Amazon Germany.
Thanks for the kind words!
Incredible demonstration, I found this very valuable. Thanks for taking the time to share.
No problem Jeff
Awesome tutorial. Thank you very much!!!
Thanks Oscar, more on the way buddy!
I love it. It's comprehensive but you didnt make it a bore.
John Henkam Gangte thanks man!
Really loved this one ! Amazing as usual. Helpful beyond words.
Wicked Bruno! Glad you're digging what we're puttin out here
"we have the text swimming in a dark sea of pixel information" just love the way you describe your world. Fantastic videos both for the photographic content and your incredible use of the English language :)
I got a kick out of that line too!
hahah thank you
Thanks so much for such an informative tutorial! Learned a lot.
Cheers, not a problem! Love making tutorials
you're very talented, this was incredibly useful... thank you!
You're so welcome!
you have the most helpful tutorials. thank you for all you do!
Thanks so much! ✌️ Stay tuned for our next episode on Group Product Photography with 1 Light!
I only have my camera and tripod. However your videos help me a lot to create a bottle photo for a new brand of beer. I made it whit the light in my cellphone, reflecting the light whit a paper. Even you show how to do it with a kit of lighting i tried to apply with a simple light, and it work so well (at least for me). Thank you so much!
I don't know how to show you the result because i haven't upload yet.
Awesome Anjuth, I'd love to see your beer photography -- are you a member of the Facebook Group? facebook.com/workphlo (-:
Excellent video. Fun to watch.
Thanks for watching the tutorial, I like your username!
Great detailed video/tutorial. Thanks for sharing/creating :D
Thank you so much for the supply links you included. Super helpful!! :)
It is my honor! Thank you!
You're such a good teacher!
Thank you so much
Love you work thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching
Great important post, where you make the main focus, really makes me happy for its necessary of importance.
After all it is a great article with everything. Thanks in advance for posting it.
You are welcome! Thank you!!
Waw nice idea
Thanks, I am going to make an update soon - you should consider subscribing to follow along.
For the dust blower, I picked up a handheld pump sprayer off Amazon (can probably get them at Princess Auto, Canadian Tire, Harbor Frieght, Home Depot, etc...), just pump it up with air, and then you have 1L of pressurized air to spray with. It's like a reusable can of air, and you can customize the stream of air by turning the nozzle.
Very Cool!
Wow really amazing results in a simple video
10/10
just ordered studio flash set,
and going to try this when they arrive (with my d800)
Thanks and Greetins From Finland
Would love to see your results!
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That was an excellent tutorial. I appreciate you taking the time to do this.
Dustin, just found your channel. Great stuff. I really appreciate your approach to breaking down the entire process. I look forward to more from you.
I just discovered your podcasts, thank you so much for sharing and explaining, I've learned so much in just a few minutes!
really amazing video, thank you so much!
No problem, cheers!
Great stuff Dustin, have been looking for a channel like this to get me into this, keep up the great work
Glad to hear we could help, Barry!
step by step! thanks!
Yes! I like this method. Cheers
Great tutorial Dustin. I’ve spent the last 14 years photographing these kind of products for a large UK retailer and understand fully how awkward something like this can be to shoot. Looking forward to checking out you’re other videos.
Thank you very much 🙏🏻
I couldn't believe that I watched the whole video while I am trying to sleep
It is informative and I enjoyed every second of it
Ahah amazing! Thanks
Amazing as always Dustin! Really appreciate how long and in depth this is!
Good morning. I love your channel, learning so much. I found it by searching Glass photography. 💛
Fell asleep watching a RUclips video and woke up to your tutorial playing an hour or so later haha. What a strange way to find a new channel. Great content though. Subbed!
Glad to hear the RUclips algorithm is working over-time! Thanks
Man, this was one gorgeous piece of tutorial. Such quality work, I really hope your channel is filled with this kind of videos because I am right now pressing the Subscribe button hehehehe. Cheers man, great work!
Such nice words, thank-you! Happy you subscribed, I won't disappoint you
and you didn't disappoint, because your channel IS filled with extreme high quality content! man, I already watched like 7 videos from your channel and I find your work absolutely inspiring, specially the ones where you use just 1 flash to get a marvelous result. Please more of these 1 flash videos! And it also definetly convinced me of the quality of the Yongnuo speedlights! Thanks again mate! Congratulations!
Cool vid. Love your problem-solving.
Cheers Connor
Dope first time here great stuff joined the FB group, found you by YT search for product photography !
Thank you so much!
@@workphlo welcome, content in so practical and useful, keep it coming.
love this break down, and your talking style. Subbed!
We appreciate the sub!! Welcome to the crew
Thank you man, great video!!
Cheers, it was my pleasure to make!
If I may suggest, use the healing brush tool instead of the patch tool. You will do it much faster and never loose detail, just toggle between darken and lighten modes depending on color of dust. It's much faster because you don't need to go selecting around your particles. Excellent video, getting better and better; I do enjoy them a lot, cheers!
Cheers Alejandro! Thank-you for the tip, I will have to try that out soon
You're like the Canadian Bob Ross of photography
Just caught this now, thank you!
Vibing your product tutorials, just a suggestion but could you create a series of videos focused of showing the basics of post in photoshop, masking, compositing etc that can be applied to your tutorials? :)
bro, you have some of the most profesional tutorials that it almost illegal to pass on so much info in one video...
Cheers 😎
I found your channel because one of your videos was suggested by RUclips when I was watching another product photography video.
I appreciate it! Many different traffic streams having to do with product photography... cheers!
workphlo I am not new to studio photography tutorials, in fact, the first tutorial I watched was like 10 years ago (Lynda.com) or similar platform. Still, I find your videos are my favorite because the level of editing skills and the studio hardware you use match with mine, also the message delivery style you adopt is the type I prefer. Good luck, I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
I love your work!!!
Thanks brotha
#replaylightingtips. Thanks, was looking for lighting suggestions and stumbled upon your tutorials. Deeply intellectual instructions which fuel inspiration and workflow tweaking. Thanks again for your assistance as a canary from the treetop.📸🎞🦉👍🏆
Tip: Attach a piece of thin, flexible but controllable plastic tubing, to a syringe. Add a couple drops of glycerine to the cofee and mix it in (best done in another container and then added to the carafe in order to keep the glass clean... consider using a tube and funnel to fill the carafe.) Just before shooting for the carafe, insert the tubing from the syringe through any found opening, in order to get the tip of it just under the liquid at the glass. Now gently depress the syringe while moving the tubing about an inch and a-half along the glass. You should be left with a line of fine bubbles that give a subtle hint of life to the product. Practice makes perfect.
Thank you for sharing that! I will have to try this technique. Appreciated!
Great tutorial!
Hey Juank, thanks! I'm happy you enjoyed it.
Newbie question here: Wouldn't this be easier to photograph if you used a continuous video led panel light? I just saw a video on Falcon Eyes light panels and they were amazing. I really don't know and you're the professional. Oh, by the way, I found workphlo because I searching for lights for product photography and I don't know where to start.
Absolutely, constant lights are great for making those adjustments. An alternative is a flash with a modeling light to provide this ease of use.
Learned about your stuff when i was looking for diy product photography. I’m so glad coz i do have the same equipment like youys - yongnuo, neewer and a kit lens! and just ordered a strip box. I’m about to make my first product shoot for a brewery. Your videos just resonated to newbies like me. Thank you sir! Any suggestion for camera setting on a 50mm lens?
Hey thanks for commenting. Hope the brewery went well, as far as a 50mm lens goes I'd adhere to normal f/8-f/16 range for nice deep focus! Cheers
Hi there I have been a huge fan of your work and appreciate for your contributions in the community. I learned a lot from you. I am trying to set up a small professional studio for product photography and need guidance what lights or flash should I buy. It would be a great help.
Thx
Hey there Kashish! Check out the amazon storefront link in our description, it's all the gear I recommend!
Damnit Dustin, now I want a cup of joe and I gotta get up early tomorrow.
Hope you had a nice brew in the morning!
Fab workflowv👍👍👍
Thank you! Just uploaded a new video
Great job
I've got exactly same Godox octagonal umbrella and 1 clamp reflector holder :))) but i never used that umbrella yet... what are u using as table, light stand and some bracket on it? Thanks for lesson btw
Nice! I really have enjoyed using the 120cm umbrella, you'll love it! And great for portraits.
Great work! Question . . . the text / consumer information on the side of the coffee pot . . . what was your reason for leaving it there? Would it look too fake and post processed if it were stamped out? Thanks.
Hey Jason, thanks man! I didn't even notice that to be honest -- yes it can be fixed! (-:
By lighting through a diffused backdrop (same method you are using) I am experiencing some light hazing on the subject. Any ideas how to get around that? Stopping down certainly helps but background exposure suffers. Btw love the videos! Thanks
Yo Danny! Try and bring black cards to the right and left of the subject. See our most recent speedlight compositing episode, showing how I create blockers around the object to prevent this phenomena.
Love the videos!! You need a wacom tablet for your retouching. Saves you loads of time and quite possibly from carpol tunnel surgery...
Andrew Van Overbeke Definately want to avoid any surgeries... I will check that out thanks!
Hey dude! Really helpful breakdown, thanks a lot for that!
My knowledge about lighting is still really small. I don’t understand why the logo becomes brighter but the rest (middle part and background) darker by using this little grid softbox.
Could you please explain?
Not sure about rest getting 'darker' could have been lighting changing in a room with ISO as a factor - but the grid helps control the light to ONLY go where that label is so it is isolating the spill.
Thanks for the video. Sorry, I must have missed it, what was the size of your light boxes? Do you use continuous light?
Hey there! The stripboxes are 8x36" and are linked in the description in our amazon storefront! No continuous light here, just speedlight flash!
Hey there! The stripboxes are 8x36" and are linked in the description in our amazon storefront! No continuous light here, just speedlight flash!
Good job, bro.
Great work!
Thanks!
Another incredible video Dustin. I have a quite interesting suggestion for a possible video. You spoke a lot about 255 white so I began to wonder what lighting precautions do you take when photographing white objects on white background and black objects of black background to ensure elements don't clip or crush into the seamless?
Anyway great video and keep it up! I can see your channel growing.
Chevy-Jordan Thompson Thanks! Awesone suggestion, certainly will be interesting airing out those technical dilemmas. I'll work on that episode! Cheers and thanks again for stumbling upon workphlo. 📸
Thank you so much!
I'm learning a lot thanks. But if you had it at 16 bit, color gradient would look much more smoother. You wouldn't have to use any kind of blur effect to smooth out surface. Of course the file size would be at least doubled.
Hey Richard, thank you for the great feedback. I agree 16 bit is the way to go. Cheers!
Very cool tutorials full of information... but why don't you shoot vertically so you get higher resolution to work with?
Hey Jan! My tripod head connection has been slipping, so when I go vertical sometimes very subtly the layers don't line up. And since it's rotating the camera down, it changes the whole perspective and gets tricky!
A few people have asked this... haha must replace it soon! Cheers
This is awesome 👏🏻
Hey thanks a million Veronika.
what are you using.. to tether ( program) that your making these fast changes with?
I am using a combination of a script to open files as layers with screen recording photoshop, with some actions replaced with graphics
"Everyone has one of these laying around" aye, I just ordered some.
how do u make the background that white?
Also I'm taking tshirt pictures with my phone, but even with 2 softboxes, the plain white shirt is a darker gray in some area. Do I only do it in a dark room with no light coming in or is it because the phone's camera makes it dark and I should use a DSLR instead? thank you so much (:
DSLRs give you more precise control, but we are releasing a video soon using a phone. I will try and link it to you. Make sure join our Facebook Group it's all about those questions!
Love the black card technique! Where do you purchase?
Hey Dustin! I have two simple questions and I would highly appreciate if you can help me out.
At 26:02, what is the hot key you used for pasting white into the mask?
And would this image be possible to create with just one light and stripbox by lighting up the backside first, then angular sides blended with lighten mode on post and adding the logo details on front.
I use ctrl+delete to paste into the selection my foreground colour. Can you rephrase your lighting question?
@@workphlo I mean that would it be possible to create the exact same shot with one speedlight&stripbox instead of two? Would just have to composite more?
Great tutorial
Thanks Nathan!
Thanks. Described.