Timeline for How to take product shots on a green screen background?
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| Dec 27, 2013 at 23:10 | vote | accept | connersz | ||
| Dec 27, 2013 at 3:49 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @angelrojas - if you place the camera even with the floor such that the floor isn't visible in the shot, then you don't have to worry about shadows on the bottom of the soft box. Granted, it does limit the angle you can take a photo of the object from unless you can prop it up at the angle you desire while shooting from that position. | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 2:30 | comment | added | angel rojas | @MichaelClark Your last comment is very enlightening. There is a part of it I did not completely understand: "as well as placing the camera just above the plane of the floor of the light box." Can you explain the quoted paragraph? Thanks | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 22:57 | comment | added | connersz | @AJHenderson OK I see it now in the magic wand. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 22:55 | comment | added | connersz | @AJHenderson I don't see that option, I am using the select colour range followed by refine edge. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 22:43 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @connersz - use the contiguous option. It will not find anything within the object then unless there is a constant chain of the color from the outside to the inside. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 22:35 | comment | added | connersz | The problem is that I'm picking the grey colour in the background and it's also found within the products. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 22:15 | comment | added | connersz | @AJHenderson I just tried to do it with the white background but in photoshop when I try to remove the background It is selecting anything with colour so removing text from the items as well. I am struggling to find the edge. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 21:48 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @MichaelClark - that's a good point, though the principal that you still need to have the background over-exposed holds true since the color isn't going to be exactly uniform, but the idea of suspending it or lighting from the bottom so that the shadows go out of frame is a good point. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 21:46 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @connersz - ah, then a neutral grey background would probably be ideal. It will require a little more manual work, but will still avoid the fringing issues associated with colored backdrops. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 21:44 | comment | added | Michael C | @AJ Henderson - Which should make the usefulness of a translucent light box that allows a light placed below it rather obvious, as well as placing the camera just above the plane of the floor of the light box. (Or even supporting the product with a pedestal that is smaller than the product itself, so that only a thin support is below the product. Or using clear monofilament lines to hang the product from above.) | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 21:41 | comment | added | connersz | The problem I have is that the products are white (well a sort of off-white) and it is hard to get a good outline. I have to take one shot of a small white jar with it's cap leaning against the side of it and I'm finding it hard to get a good outline in the gap between the two because of the shadow. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 20:52 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @MichaelClark - right, but if the object is sitting on something, you are still going to have a shadow on the ground under it unless you put the lights directly even with the floor level. I got the impression we were talking about shadows under the object, not behind it. You can erase those if you are over-exposing the background by clipping it out, but getting exactly even lighting with no shadows anywhere is a near impossibility. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 20:42 | comment | added | Michael C | The keys to eliminating shadows are to separate the product/subject and the background by enough distance and then place a light that makes the background brighter than the subject. | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 20:02 | history | answered | AJ Henderson♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |