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by Dave Wall Published 01/06/2013

Great !?@*?!!!

Shooting white on white is pretty tricky at the best of times but when you are working within just a few inches from product to background, things become a lot more tricky!

Thinking on my feet is often what I do best as it makes me dig into the cloudy bits of my mind to find solutions...and within five minutes we had the shot nailed (which even impressed me if I am being totally honest).

So a really fun day which was a great eye opener confirmed with so many delegates milling around at the end looking and taking notes of all my equipment to put their new found skills into practice. I think I can safely say that none of the delegates now feels that product photography is boring, and they will never look at everyday objects quite the same again!

My final training day dawns and I am really excited as the MIPP have (some how) managed to get permission for us all to have complete access to shoot in St. James Cavalier in Valletta - an amazing art gallery with a mix of medieval and ultra modern combined architecture... a perfect backdrop for my Ambient Interiors seminar!

We all met in the main gallery area, which is a long cave-like structure that used to be the gunpowder store for Valletta, an amazing and inspiring space.

I explained to all the delegates that shooting interiors is very formulaic and actually quite easy if the space has been prepared in advance (fully working light bulbs, clean and tidy, etc). We spend half an hour or so discussing techniques and then began shooting.

We only had three hours so I proposed that I shoot all the interiors as if it were on a live job, as I have promised the gallery I will have some images for their archive for their generosity in letting us have full reign around the building. This way the delegates could also go off and shoot what they want and then can drift back to me at any point to see what I am doing, show me what they have shot and also ask technical questions along the way.

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