Product Photography Low Key

This week we have been experimenting with Low key product photography.

Product photography is an extension of commercial photography which is about accurately but attractively representing a product. The principal application of product photography is in product catalogues and brochures, with a proportion of product images also being used in advertising.
The challenges of product photography are generally:

• To represent the product without distortion
• To represent the product in good lighting, with soft shadows and no identifiable reflections
• To photograph a range of products rapidly, one at a time, so that the shadows and light are consistent



Scoop

The main areas that product photgraphy are taken in are in a tent or on a scoop, with the necessary lighting to create the required effect.

Tent

These are generally used for HIGH KEY product photography whuch will be a featured post in the next week or so.

Today we are discussing LOW KEY and below are some examples of the kind of set up you need to achieve this technique.

Below was our set up:

TBC