Hi, this is Jay P Morgan.
Today on The Slanted Lens, we're gonna do a great little product shot of this wooden
bowl, made by a friend of mine, Richard Wilson.
I've been able to shoot for a couple of hours, a friend of mine, as he turns one of these
wooden bowls.
Just get some kinda fun shots.
I'm gonna put that into a little documentary piece for him.
But I need some product shots of his bowl, of his art piece.
So I turned to the Syrp Mini.
They have a new product table they've come out with.
It's a product table that turns on the Syrp Mini.
Now, it's just a fabulous way to be shoot this.
This is video, so we're going to shoot video as the product turns on the table.
This orients itself like this.
This is the top of the product.
This is fabulous for working with products like shoes or bags, or anything you're going
to shoot.
You wanna just see a 360 slow turn.
Table is fabulous for stills.
Or you plug it in with this cable, fire it from your camera, and you can do these kind
of stills every eight frames, 10 frames, to do a 360.
Now, that gives you a look at the product, as people can look around it on a website
or something.
I apologize for my shorthand reference to this little device.
It's a Syrp Genie Mini.
I just call is Syrp Mini or The Mini.
But, anyway, the Genie Mini.
There you have it.
So in our setup here we have our Genie Mini, we have our base.
The base screws into the top of the Genie Mini.
It's gonna rotate on that base now.
Part of the reason you do that, is now it's rotating the bottom, your cable can stay plugged
in and it's not gonna tangle up.
You turn it this way, cable gets tangled up.
And our plate goes on the top, and now we have our setup.
If you wanna do video with this, you don't need to have the cable plugged into it because
you can simply go to your app, go to new video, and put it on whether you wanna do a full
360 or 180, or whatever degree you want it to turn.
I put mine on 360 so it's just rotating.
So that Genie Mini is just giving me a 360 view.
It just keeps going around.
It does a little pause at 360, it does a little reset, and then goes again.
And the timing on that was difficult.
At first it was 45 seconds, it was too fast.
I went to a minute and 45 seconds, and that was better.
Just a little more romantic, a little more nice.
You see the grain a little nicer.
Just a nice, pretty look.
So there's how we set up our Genie Mini.
I actually turned it upside down.
Put my bowl on top of it, because I'm doing videos.
I'm gonna tangle the cord up in it now, and I'm gonna run that from my phone.
But now let's take a look at the lighting.
All right, you can see our bowl.
We've got one Silk 210 from behind.
When I do a product, I love a top back light.
I've talked about that before here on the channel.
These Silk 210s are soft, so they're really pretty.
They have a nice large footprint.
Just gives us a nice rim light on the side here.
I'll then take and I'm gonna add a Silk from one side.
I wanna bring out the detail in the side of the bowl here.
And I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna turn this on here from the side.
There we go and that's now gonna give us a little bit of detail.
It's gonna give us some nice detail right here in that area.
I'm gonna do the same thing on this other side.
Now, we don't need the barn doors on this Silk 210, but they were on it.
We don't have to take them off.
We've just got them opened up so they give us a nice broad light here, and so it's not
a problem.
We're gonna go ahead and turn that light on.
Now, I should have a nice, kind of defining of this bowl.
These kind of cuts on the camera right and left side gives us a beautiful look at that.
Now, in the front it's gonna be too dark.
There's no doubt about it, all of our light's coming from behind.
So I'm now going to slide in this fill card.
And with this fill card, I'm gonna just bounce some of this Silk 210 light back in.
And I can decide how much or how little I want of that.
That looks really pretty.
I've got nice highlights on the right and left, it's open in the front.
It gives us the ability to examine the detail that goes around.
We can see the dark wood, the light wood.
Now, we've got two or three highlights in there, but we're gonna live with those.
I use the Tamron 90mm Macro lens.
I shot most of this on my Vanguard 283 Tripod.
It's a fabulous tripod.
So now let's see how these product shots integrate into the documentary.
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So there you have it.
A great new product from Syrp and a great application, and the way to use it to be able
to show a product off in a video application.
So I hope you learned something from this.
I actually love using this.
Very, very simple to use, simple to setup, and to get going was no issue whatsoever.
And I forgot to mention, there is this great disc.
White side, dark side.
You can put that on top of the plate, and you have a little larger surface to be able
to use for your product.
So great product, and great application.
So I hope you enjoy.
Keep those cameras rolling, and keep on clicking.