I have a sudden urge for Dr. Pepper...

 

Oh, Sorry. Thought these were from all the same person. My bad.

 

i can't get enough of this.

i'm running out of things that i can fit into my horribly small lightbox to shoot!

i need a bigger box.

 

Try shooting some stuff with a reflective or mirrored property to it. Something like a watch or some shiny silverware. That stuff is always so hard to shoot, and make it look GOOD.

 

i don't have any shiny things.

i want to buy a photo frame and use the glass for reflected purposes. that'll be my next step.

 

I would usually use my flash as a fill in, balance yellow light or both.

you can see the difference.

No flash


Flash

 

but your obeject is relatively low, whereas on a taller subject the flash is likely to creat a shadow - no?

 

Depends on how you do it. I will adjust mine, just to fill in. Also the distance will dictate your shadow + your surrounding lighting. For my case, the external lighting was yellow so I put a bit more flash than what I would use to balance it. For the Monster can I posted, I used a flash for it but I didn't aim it stright at the can. If you don't have a external flash, there are some material around the house that you can use to diffuse your internal flash. I used to use paper. You have no idea how many pics I took of that gun till I got the one I wanted. Now if I would have shot it in RAW it might be a little bit different.

 

Even with the flash though front lighting, when it comes to product advertisement, is never accepted as an appealing form of lighting the product. And you don't need your flash to compensate for the tungsten light. Just pre-set your white balance before you start.

 

Some nice shots..

 

I'm just saying for some of us it might work to do to use it for simple stuff like this or to experiment. Its not like he is trying to make a magazine article.

It is funny that I mention the use of a flash. I hardly ever use it. The actual reason why I used it on those pics is because I was too lazy to break out the tripod and shoot it in RAW.