KillRamsey
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- Location
- Hood River, OR
- Name
- Kyle
A friend is making a new "boot" lockable storage trunk for bikes, and I'm helping her get some shots. We keep trying to meet up in the evening after work when the light is perfect, but it keeps getting cloudy. Happened again yesterday, but we went ahead and shot. And I left my entire work bag at home, leaving the house with just the Xt1 and 18-55 slung across my back, so I didn't have the 35, the 56, or the 50-230. I did what I could about the flat light in post, and tried to avoid bare tree branches in the shots to disguise the fact that it's early Spring here and there are no leaves yet.
Product shots are deceptively hard. Geometry and composition are more or less EVERYTHING. I suddenly had to help pose her, and get all the little details right (dirt, smudges, backgrounds)... things you never worry about doing photojournalism. It's humbling.
Some of it:
Her center stand was WAY too tall, kicking the front of the bike (and thus the boot) up at an angle. And the cilantro was already starting to wilt. sigh...
BucaBoot product shots by gordopuggy, on Flickr
It helps that she's tall and stately, and has flaming red / orange hair. The orange channel brings her skin tones up a little, and makes her hair pop nicely.
BucaBoot product shots by gordopuggy, on Flickr
BucaBoot product shots by gordopuggy, on Flickr
BucaBoot product shots by gordopuggy, on Flickr
I had her brother sit on the bench for a few, and I like them. The beard goes so well with the PBR.
BucaBoot product shots by gordopuggy, on Flickr
Product shots are deceptively hard. Geometry and composition are more or less EVERYTHING. I suddenly had to help pose her, and get all the little details right (dirt, smudges, backgrounds)... things you never worry about doing photojournalism. It's humbling.
Some of it:
Her center stand was WAY too tall, kicking the front of the bike (and thus the boot) up at an angle. And the cilantro was already starting to wilt. sigh...
It helps that she's tall and stately, and has flaming red / orange hair. The orange channel brings her skin tones up a little, and makes her hair pop nicely.
I had her brother sit on the bench for a few, and I like them. The beard goes so well with the PBR.