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Let me start off by saying we're going to do product photography for the home maker.
I'm not going to assume that you have access to the kinds of lighting that is in the studio
in which we're working, but you're going to have to make due. You're not a professional.
This is photography for the dummies or for the people that just don't have a lot of equipment
floating around. So we're going to work with minimal kinds of equipment. We're going to
work with things that we find around the house in order to create the illusions that are
possible if you have access to fancy photography equipment like this soft box. Not likely you
have one of these in your closet unless you're a pretty serious amateur photographer. So
we're going to make due with things that you might have around the house that creates the
same illusion in the final photograph as that fancy multi hundred dollar unit that you've
got there. We do have some things that are going to be critical to have. You're going
to have to have something that you can put lights on or stands. It doesn't matter what
kinds of lights. We'll talk about that in a little while, but something to get light
up where you want it. The whole job of photography and product photography is controlling the
lighting in the room in which you are going to be shooting. Controlling the lighting on
the object, controlling the lighting on the backgrounds, so you need to have some lights
and you need ways of getting those lights where you want them and moving them around
so that you've got some control over how the light reflection bounces off of reflective
objects like shiny metal or lacquer, lacquer dakar finishes.