Hello everyone, so over the weekend I had the opportunity to shoot with a friend of mine who was shooting product images for a newer adventure brands social media. I also took some shots.
Since I love hiking, exploring and photography I thought it would be cool to take some product shots of mine own since I have never done any before.
Just looking for some advice.
Photos and editing was all me.
I like the last two the best but the last one is out of focus. In the others the background is too busy the products get lost. They are too dark too.
I do like the vision you're going for. Keep at it. Go online and look at other photos similar to what you are looking for. Check out some videos on YT on product photography in the same vein and see how they do it. But definitely keep at it! Nobody learns everything overnight. I'll be looking for more from you.
Just my take. ;-)
Personally my first thought was why was this stuff left in the woods. Of the images, I prefer the first, but feel the product closest to the camera should be center of attention. Like you would naturally see them. That said, I feel like you need to connect these products with their use and people. For example you can have something similar to the first images with a backdrop of hikers using the product. Keep depth of field (or lack there of) in mind.
Hi Chris,
I'm not sure if you want critiques on the photography aspect or on the marketing potential of those. I'm no expert in publicity but based on what I see I wouldn't personally be tempted to look some more on those items by your choice of compositions. Product photography by itself is not easy at all, good work for trying it!
As for the photography aspect of it, better results could be achieved with focus and also combine multi exposures to achieve a proper exposure of the whole scene and do a realistic post HDR unless you can control the light with flashes, reflectors, flags etc.
In other words you have to shoot about 20 shots or so of the same scene on a tripod with different focus points, exposures and after you have some editing to do.
I hope this helps,
Mark
Thank you all for the feedback! Definitely going to work on everything that you shared. And will continue to work on the product photography as i really enjoyed it and would love to maybe work with outdoor companies that I actually use on a daily basis one day!