Product shots...

Good job, Greg

If it was me, I think I'd like to see better detail on that cue stick by having it face the camera a bit more directly, since it seems to the the COI in that shot. The 2nd shot is good, but again, I'd like to see the stone lit better to bring out more detail. The last shot's good, but it makes me wonder what's on the end going out of the frame. All very nice looking shots, and these are only my personal completely uneducated opinions. I would also like to try my hand at product photography sometime soon.

Edit: Looking again at the cue, I see the nice leading lines creating by placing it diagonally in the frame. Not sure I would mess with that, BUT, it occurred to me that you could have a superimposed image of just the stick's detail in the corner somewhere. What do you think?

 

Gregory :


I'm not a product shooter, but I would say that the light on the pool cue could run along the cue to give a more pleasing fade-out. You can always run a gradient along it if you get too much light.



John P.

 

For large objects (and other shoots) have you ever looked into one of these? They come in blue and green.

http://www.seriousmagic.com/newspopup.cfm

 

Gregory,

I like the cue shot a lot. Tilt lens can be of great benefit for this kind of composition, providing independent control of angle and depth of filed.