A picture is worth a thousand words and this is never a truer than when you're
trying to sell stuff on
eBay or Etsy or anywhere online. I'm going to show you how you can make an
absolutely great picture
every time when you photograph the inside with this miniature studio in a box,
it's absolutely wonderful for photographing watches, jewellery or any small products.
AdoramaTV presents, iPhoneography with Nicki Fitz-Gerald.
So if you want to photograph some of your
favorite things, maybe some air looms
or watches or jewellery, or even if you want to sell some stuff online, like on
eBay or Etsy or even in your local newspaper or magazine
then you want to maximize your chances by getting
the greatest shot you can possible. We all know that
if we see a bad shot when we want to buy a product it really puts us off.
So we're going to photograph my lovely old watch here, it's not exactly a fifty thousand dollar watch
but we're going to make it look a million dollars when we put it through our
Shadow Miniature Studio Box. But first of all, before we do that
let's just have a look and see how we would normally, quickly take a photograph
if we're going to put something on eBay. Probably just put it down, we're going to take one with flash
and one without and see what the best results are.
So we'll put it down on the first available surface, we'll line it up
and we photograph that and then perhaps we've got our flash on, Auto
so we think it's a bit dull in here we'll brighten up with a bit of flash,
get in nice and close yeah that looks fab
and let's have a look at the results. Now you can see
this looks pretty poor actually,
it looks very dull it has big dark shadows over there,
it doesn't really look true to the natural color. If I look at the flash one in the
hope of something better that blue has come up nice but half of it is in a big dark shadow.
We've got some horrible bruising around the outside,
it looks really uninviting, it's not a very
inviting picture that's going to sell so, not great. Let's
see what the miniature studio can do and hopefully things will improve.
So first let's see
what's in the box, I can't wait to get this open have a look inside
I've been meaning to get one of these for ages so it simply
slides out of the box like that, easily. Lovely
smart kit it's nice and light as well
and the studio is all in here, but first we've got four pockets,
and let's just see what's in those. Let's just unclip the straps there
and first of all we've got two
little kit lights, like that one
and the second one, here and then
inside the third pocket we've got the bracket here
which is going to hold our camera
and then we've got the monopod which extends and this is going to attach to our
bracket
and put our camera in. So where's the studio
well it's all in here, let's have a look, it's just all hidden away
under this flap here,
open it up like that and it's all in there. We've got our
backgrounds here, we've got a dark blue for light objects,
we've got a light one for dark objects and now in each set up
the box, so let's get of background helpful way
and let sets you up
how any state is just
the facts like this tennis crowns
open the right hand side ever give up
hope left hand side have before we put the roof on
we just need to attach power blue background that's gonna look fire
with my three watch it just means that back then
and then going to do now is pop ceiling on
and is all major kit
call the main pocket all set up really that simple.
Ok so the next step is to set up our bracket
this is going to form the basis of our support for our camera
and we just need to screw this monopod onto the base
here, so simply tilt that up
and then screw the end into
there, line that up, screw it in, great
nice and tight and then
we'll pop our base down. We just need to put our lights on, these are great
these have got replaceable halogen bulbs. They're
fully adjustable so you can get some great angles there,
and you can tighten them up with the little knob on the side there, and then the great thing
also is we've got these really easy to use rocker switches,
easy to turn on and off and the really cool thing is this little
retractable stand so if you need to hand-hold the lights we can just get those
away really quickly
just hand-hold those wherever we want. So let's just stand that on the side and put
that there, and then we've got the other one of course, exactly the same
we can just get the stand out, stick that on the side
and then we're ready to set up our shoot!
So now we're going to try our shop using the full kit which includes both lights
and see how that looks so I'm going to switch these lights on
so if we can cut the ambient light as I turn these lights on,
if we can cut the light now. Now look at that, you can't see straight away that
looks much better. Now what this is doing
the light is coming in through the sides of the walls here, it's being
diffused and it's giving us a natural even
light, the colors are better, there's more definition and when I start to just
play around with exposure here and get that focus just right that's going to look
absolutely fantastic really, really great so it doesn't matter what your lighting
conditions are if you've got this mini studio
this is going to really work for you with lots of different products
so that looks great, and there's not really anything I need to do to that,
that looks absolutely fabulous. I'm going to take that shot, I'm going to set it on the timer
because that's going to keep our
shot nice and steady off it goes, we've got that shot. Now that looks
absolutely much better than any of the shots we've taken earlier
I'm really happy with that and can't wait to try some other products and see
how they come out.
I hope I've shown you how easy it is to create great professional shots
every time in this little mini studio and don't stop at
jewellery and watches and small products, you can also do video in here it's great fun
if you like doing stop animation
thats easy to do in here. Or try putting a green screen in the background
and superimposing your own videos,
the possibilities are really endless, just give it a go
and see what you get.
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