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Its been a while since I've been here but its good to be here.
Me and the missus have inherited a clothing business and at the moment this is retail only but we are looking to move online. We've started up an eBay store and its doing good.
The clothing is ready made garments aswell as open/loose cloth where the customer gets them sewn to their requirements.
At the moment we have torso mannequins which are good but I feel a body or torso+arms mannequin would be better. I've seen those ghost Mannequins with removable necks etc and would love one of them but for the time being i'm just going to start off with a basic one.
its the open cloth I'm having trouble gauging how best to display it. At the moment its folded to a decent size to show the pattern etc lying flat and me taking an overhead picture. sometimes these have a full body design which if i keep it folded doesnt show up as good. i have to have a separate picture for the top half and separate for the bottom half. the only thing i could possibly do is purchase a rail and hang it from there?
I have a full white vinyl background and use a flash to take the pictures however i do want to move to a strobe set up. i have two sets which i purchased a long time ago and the largest size lastolite too. I purchased them a while back not for any real purpose just to play around with and theyve been in storage since. I've taken them out and they're all working perfectly fine. With the lights i have the softboxes and the umbrellas. So i know i can have a great set up - i have a spare room where i can take these pictures and have the set up.
i have a canon t4i, two canon flashes, 2 x bowens lights 2 x interfit ex150, white vinyl background and a lastolite background
the only thing i think i need to purchase is some new triggers for the lights - the ones i have dont see to fire the strobes. its been a while so they may have just stopped working.
since it has been a while since i've had a studio set up and taken pics i was wondering if anyone on TP had any experience in doing this and any advice?
edit: also with regards to lenses i want to get a better lens for shooting close on some of the detail any recommendations on that too?
Me and the missus have inherited a clothing business and at the moment this is retail only but we are looking to move online. We've started up an eBay store and its doing good.
The clothing is ready made garments aswell as open/loose cloth where the customer gets them sewn to their requirements.
At the moment we have torso mannequins which are good but I feel a body or torso+arms mannequin would be better. I've seen those ghost Mannequins with removable necks etc and would love one of them but for the time being i'm just going to start off with a basic one.
its the open cloth I'm having trouble gauging how best to display it. At the moment its folded to a decent size to show the pattern etc lying flat and me taking an overhead picture. sometimes these have a full body design which if i keep it folded doesnt show up as good. i have to have a separate picture for the top half and separate for the bottom half. the only thing i could possibly do is purchase a rail and hang it from there?
I have a full white vinyl background and use a flash to take the pictures however i do want to move to a strobe set up. i have two sets which i purchased a long time ago and the largest size lastolite too. I purchased them a while back not for any real purpose just to play around with and theyve been in storage since. I've taken them out and they're all working perfectly fine. With the lights i have the softboxes and the umbrellas. So i know i can have a great set up - i have a spare room where i can take these pictures and have the set up.
i have a canon t4i, two canon flashes, 2 x bowens lights 2 x interfit ex150, white vinyl background and a lastolite background
the only thing i think i need to purchase is some new triggers for the lights - the ones i have dont see to fire the strobes. its been a while so they may have just stopped working.
since it has been a while since i've had a studio set up and taken pics i was wondering if anyone on TP had any experience in doing this and any advice?
edit: also with regards to lenses i want to get a better lens for shooting close on some of the detail any recommendations on that too?
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