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by Dave Wall Published 01/06/2013

This demonstration always amuses people with how easy product photography can be with a little ingenuity and thought.

From here I took the delegates into Photoshop and Lightroom to show how easy 'building' the image can be and how quickly it can be achieved.

It's still not even lunch time...so time for another completely different product to shoot, the Cree torch (again shown on these pages). This time, however, it was time to show off my Blue Peter home-made strip-lights to undertake the lighting duties. In fact all my modifiers generated a great deal of interest throughout the day and I am pretty sure I sparked quite a few imaginary light bulbs above the delegates' heads. Time for a quick retouch before lunch!

While eating lunch I decided to rip up the rule book for the afternoon session as I got the feeling that delegates 'had got it' and they were ready to dip their toes in the product photography waters.

Time for a social experiment!

I divided the group into two sections, experienced and non-experienced and gave each a product to shoot and a 20-minute window to complete the task. To make things a little more interesting I was the client and I gave both teams a strict brief to follow.

The experienced members went first with their 'opponents' heckling at every opportunity! Under the guidance of Kevin Casha (their most experienced photographer) the group made progress quite quickly, however, fell at the last hurdle somewhat, as they had decided to shoot their product with various exposures while moving the lights around ready to piece together later in Photoshop (my preferred method).

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