How many lights does it take to shoot a box?

In our last post we showed a product photo from our portfolio and now we describe how we lit this rather plain product to make it pop.

Click on the photo to enlarge it some. We used 5 lights to light the "Product" in the center of the photo. Light "E" is a white light in a bank lighting the front of the box. Light "C" with a yellow gel, puts a yellow glow on the box at the top right of the photo in the previous post. "A" and "B" are just things that block the light of "C" to create a shadow on the box. The remaining lights add more directed glows around the product.

Any questions?

Check out our portfolio of product photos, shot in our Boston studio.

It's all about Marketing

To be polite, the business of taking portraits and head shots of corporate executives has been getting very competitive recently. My web site portfolio of professional portraits of corporate executives in Boston and New England, has worked well for decades, but 2 years ago I knew I would need to supplement that portfolio with more work directed to a different market. So I re-opened my photo studio and now have added product photography to my business model. My new Boston Product Photographer BostonProductPhotography.com, web site is now online.

In an effort to share knowledge, lets look at one of my studio product shots and discuss in the next post the background of this shot, and how we lit it: