Comments on: How to turn a white set for a product photograph black in 3 seconds. https://blog.depuhl.com/how-to-turn-a-white-set-for-a-product-photograph-black-in-3-seconds/ photography, filmmaking and a peek inside the mind of a visual content creator Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:26:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Mark Gilvey https://blog.depuhl.com/how-to-turn-a-white-set-for-a-product-photograph-black-in-3-seconds/#comments/19631 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:26:44 +0000 http://blog.depuhl.com/?p=509#comment-19631 This looks like a really easy solution. That said, the one wild card is the Art Director who asks us to violate physics to get what they want so it looks “more natural” when in reality, it isn’t. Oy! For example, they don’t want the overhead light over head but instead from the side. If I understand correctly, it’s still just a matter of keeping the product light from spilling over to the background, no matter what direction it comes from correct?

]]> By: rinat halon https://blog.depuhl.com/how-to-turn-a-white-set-for-a-product-photograph-black-in-3-seconds/#comments/9818 Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:16:36 +0000 http://blog.depuhl.com/?p=509#comment-9818 Love it! KISS principle

]]> By: admin https://blog.depuhl.com/how-to-turn-a-white-set-for-a-product-photograph-black-in-3-seconds/#comments/3858 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:09:43 +0000 http://blog.depuhl.com/?p=509#comment-3858 Dear Athos,

You actually don’t need to have the wall painted green – you’re main concerns are going to be the reflections in the actual product them itself, so my suggestions would be to have them take the photos in the dessert, where the only thing that reflects in the trailer is the sky and the sand (plus that may be some great photos you can use on the website.

You can send the new images to me, we actually physically draw a path around the trailer, which gives you a much cleaner edge than an alpha channel. Creating this path takes a pretty short time and I am happy to do this for you at no cost, since I believe in the mission of this trailer company.

As per the second items, that’s a little trickier, since if you shoot glass against white, it will look white (a good photographer can light it in a way to get the detail of the surface), but you can’t easily change the color. I would shoot this against the true color that you will be using this on the website, if I understand this correctly.

Thanks for the questions, hope this helps and I need to get one of those trailers – they are awesome!

Pascal

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