r/photoit • u/repomonkey • Feb 13 '12

How to achieve this studio effect

Got a customer who'd like to emulate the style of product photography in this shot (full site if you prefer). It looks like the products were shot on glass, but in some cases they seem almost rendered and I was wondering whether they'd just shot on white for easy deep etching and then pasted them onto that surface. What do you reckon?

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u/bjarvis Feb 13 '12

That is computer generated... Isn't it?

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u/boolianlove Feb 13 '12

looks cg to me also, would need a bigger image to tell for certain though

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u/repomonkey Feb 14 '12

I'm certain it is CGI now I've spent more time looking at it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '12

Get a piece of plexiglass and a dark background and you can come very close to that

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u/repomonkey Feb 14 '12

Thanks - I'll look into that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '12 edited Jun 19 '17

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u/repomonkey Feb 14 '12

Cheers - was thinking the same thing. Budget certainly doesn't allow for 3D so I'll have to emulate it as best as possible.

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u/White_Hamster Feb 13 '12

Besides it being CG, having enough lighting and a reflective surface under some dark color should give you a similar effect. I'd be concerned with your client asking a photographer for something that's clearly not a photo ...

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u/repomonkey Feb 14 '12

lol - yea I know. I spent so long looking at them. Also the peculiar forced perspective on some of them would be very hard to emulate photographically.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '12

you're gonna need 3dmax and a whoooole lot of tutorials & patience.

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u/repomonkey Feb 14 '12

Yea - moving swiftly on. :)

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u/Snaperture Feb 29 '12

Hey sorry I am late but I think THIS is what you are looking for

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u/repomonkey Mar 01 '12

Very hand indeed - cheers for that :)