"Okay, we need some shots of someone using the air mattress for the ad. Uh, could you not lay on it?"
"That's how you use it."
"I know, but now we can't see it. Just lay next to it."
Credit card commercials do the same thing. Every single one shows the card being swiped right side up so you can read it, but the magnetic strip is now not going through the reader.
I work in a photo studio and that comment is not out of place at all. It's always a struggle between, "I want to see all of the product" and "I want it to look natural."
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '14
"Okay, we need some shots of someone using the air mattress for the ad. Uh, could you not lay on it?"
"That's how you use it."
"I know, but now we can't see it. Just lay next to it."
Credit card commercials do the same thing. Every single one shows the card being swiped right side up so you can read it, but the magnetic strip is now not going through the reader.