Product Shots

Nikon F100
Originally uploaded by null photography.

i've been into taking pics of camera gear lately and i like the plain white backgrounds for them. i don't have a lightbox or anything fancy like that, i just use alot of white printer paper spread out over the table. i try to lay them out so that the overlaps create the least amount of shadows. then when i take them into photoshop i add a curve layer and select the paper as "white" and it creates a nice white background. also i shoot wideopen at f/1.8 to help blur the paper into a seamless background. everyone once in a while there is a seem that shows up so i just use some photoshop healing on it and it's all set. they seem to turn out pretty well.

New Gear

New Gear

Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
Originally uploaded by null photography.

Just got this lens for my bday and it's working great. I wanted a fast lens for indoor stuff and I also wanted to have a lens with a larger dof. So far I've only done a couple "product shots" of my other lenses at f/1.8 and it has given great dof. I'll will be taken alot more photos with it as soon as I get more time. I've recently moved into a new place so I haven't had much time to take photos because I've been running around getting stuff for the new house and building/installing stuff in the new place. Also there's all the unpacking and cleaning up as well. Maybe this weekend or next week I'll be able to go out and try out my new lens. Also for my bday I got a two year flickr pro account, I was really excited to get that. Now I can organize all my photos online, keep showing all my old photos and upload original sizes of my photos instead of the reduced sizes I had to do before.