Taking pic's of hairdressing scissors?? Help??

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James Curd

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James Curd
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Hello All,

I am fairly new to photography and am struggling with taking images of my website products, mainly hairdressing scissors. I am using daylight photography lamps x 2 (3200) white matt foam card on the bottom and sides and tripod my D60 directly above the scissor which is flat on the white foam card but the image always comes out rather dull with reflection and shading? I can rectify in Photoshop 7 but its very time consuming.

Please, any help and advice on directing the light maybe???

Regards

A frustrated James:)
 
James Curd said:
Hello All,

I am fairly new to photography and am struggling with taking images of my website products, mainly hairdressing scissors. I am using daylight photography lamps x 2 (3200) white matt foam card on the bottom and sides and tripod my D60 directly above the scissor which is flat on the white foam card but the image always comes out rather dull with reflection and shading? I can rectify in Photoshop 7 but its very time consuming.

Please, any help and advice on directing the light maybe???

Regards

A frustrated James:)
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You need a light tent LINK like this, or make something similar with a cardboard box and thin white paper.

Product inside, lights outside.
 
I have one of those but it didnt seem to work, mybe its the position of my lights? Also the camera pics up the detail in the white material which makes it difficult to edit in Photoshop. I prefer the white foam card. Do you think if i make a cube out of the foam card then direct to light into the cube this will work?
 
Do you have some pics you can post to show where you are and what you hope to achieve?
 
James Curd said:
I have one of those but it didnt seem to work, mybe its the position of my lights? Also the camera pics up the detail in the white material which makes it difficult to edit in Photoshop. I prefer the white foam card. Do you think if i make a cube out of the foam card then direct to light into the cube this will work?
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Here is a link to a How To Make your own LINK

I thought that I had a link to a page on how to set up the lighting, if I can find it I shall post it up a bit later
 
James it may help to have a black card to one side to give some depth to the scissors.
 
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