Project "Black"

To be honest, I have an affinity for the color black. You'd swear I was a raider fan if you saw the silver/black/white color palette of most of my gadgets, however, you'd be wrong, I am a 49ER FAN!!!

Last week i figured I'd give product photography another go with my best, magazine style Accessory/Gadget page yet. I look forward to trying more daring and dynamic composition in the near future.

If today's post seems rather terse, my apologies, I had written this whole elaborate post, saving my draft every now and then when all of a sudden, Firefox decides to crash on me. I'm definitely bitter.

Technical Details

As you can see by the following set up shots, I use a lot of reflectors, which if used correctly, could make it seems as if you lit the image with 20 lights. I used 3 strobes in total, one SB - 800 shot thru a honl grid aimed directly the shoe, one Alien Bees 1600 shot thru a medium softbox directly above, and another AB 1600 with medium softbox camera left. All strobes were triggered via cybersyncs, and slaves.

The best elements of each item in the composition where composited together to create the final image.

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