Crystal Flower Photography

(Photo's colour turned by Adobe Lightroom.)

The light is mainly concentrated in the center of the screen. Using the whiteboard, reflect the golden leaves. If there is no whiteboard reflection, the golden leaves will only appear dark black.

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Pour Whisky into the Glass Photography

(Photo have some retouching)

I got a bottle of whisky from my friend. He got the selling agent of this bottle of whisky in hong kong. This whisky is brewing in Japan. My friend renamed this whisky. I want to take a photo of this whisky. I researched some references photo on the Internet. According to the reference photos. I chose a pour whisky into the wine glass photo shooting method. This method has some difficult points. 1) The distance between the background and the wine glass, arrange the orange background light area. 2) The proportion of the wine glass and the bottle of whiskey in the frame. 3) Whisky flows down into the wine glass position, whisky needs to overlap on a highlight. 4) Pressing the shutter and pouring the whisky is all handled by myself. So it’s very difficult. I tried many times. One of many many photos met my expectations. 5) Background and surface texture have photo retouching. Which is shown below. I hope you like my artwork.

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Focal length: 60, F-number: 3.5, Exposure time: 1/180

Important points: Flash light's highlights need to overlap the whisky.

Halloween Cookies Photography

Youtube link:

https://youtu.be/LudHD6N0u4M

(All photo No retouching)

One day my friend gave me a box of hand-made Halloweens cookies. The packaging is very beautiful. The box made of a hard card paper. The box middle area is a transparent plastic card, so we can see cookie inside of the box. Halloweens cookie shape is very cute. The shape has a Spider, Skeletons, Bats, Ghosts, Mummy, Pumpkin Heads, Black Cats, etc... So I decided to open the photography project, with these Halloweens cookies. In the first stage of shooting. Some related themed shooting effects were researched on the Internet. As a reference, the shooting direction was determined through reference data. I purchased some props on Taobao's website. Let the screen can enhance the Halloween atmosphere. I do not want the Halloween props to take away the main objects of the Halloweens cookies. So, I also spent careless thinking on the purchase of Halloween props and tried my best purchase of props good for shooting. I can not choose has too many colors and details on the props. In the end, I chose a building made of black hard card paper, simple structure, and capable of expressing Halloween. The props are needed hand makes processing, and it needs one week times. When finished preparing the props. I enter the next shooting stage. First: Determine the main object cookies location and numbers of Halloween cookies. Second: Add Halloween props to the shooting screen. Try different positions and choose the best positions. Third: decorative lighting and main light source cooperate with each other. Fourth: Try different aperture shutters and shooting angles. Finally, complete the shooting.

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Prepare Halloween Props 

My friend hand-makes Halloween cookies

Light Position Setting

Wine Bottle Photography

Wine Bottle Photography Review

Wine Bottle Photography. At this time, The object is a small wine bottle. The bottle shape is very special. The wine bottle's shape is a violin. I need to plan how to shoot the photo of a violin wine bottle. In this process, I need to think about what shooting effect needs to be used. The effect needs to be suitable for this violin wine bottle. I need to think about what equipment, resources, and accessories I have to use in this shooting. I research shooting wine bottle information on the Internet. The Internet has many of the wine bottle's shooting effects. Finally, I decided to use the backlight shooting effect, and add my own idea to this shooting method. Such as continuous light plus orange gel. The continuous light through to the orange gel, this method can make an orange color's light show on the black color's board. That color with the small wine bottle's color very matches. Violin wine bottle's bottom with dark blue gel. This method brings out the water wave effect under this shooting. In the small violin wine bottle, the bright part is 1/3 of the whole frame, and the dark background composition is 2/3.  The light and dark areas can make a golden ratio. The small violin wine bottle setting in the right position and angle in the shooting lens screen. The above part of the processing is completed. Next is the light setting. On the left-hand side is a 90-degree speed light. This angle's light can highlight the left-hand side violin wine bottle shape. On the right-hand side have a whiteboard. The whiteboard can reflect the left-hand side speed light to the violin wine bottle's right surface. Due to the right-hand side's light is reflected lighting, so the power of the right-hand side's lighting is weaker than the left-hand side's lighting. It can create different lighting power levels on the bottle. Reflected lighting can highlight the shape of the right-hand side's violin wine bottle. Finally, I use the speed light with a flash beam tube to light up the front of the violin wine bottle and step by step to complete this project.

In this post. All images no photo retouching.

All Angle's Flash Light is ON.

The Backlight and Speed Light with Flash Bean Tube is ON.

The Backlight and Left-hand side Flash Light is ON.

Only the Backlight is ON.

Light setting reference image.

Jewelry Photography with Color Lighting Background - photo by ken

Jewelry Photography with Color Lighting Background Photography Review

This time jewelry photography, make a color lighting background picture, suitable for a fancy mood, a little girl feels of the ring. If this background effect is to shoot the mature style of the ring. Then will be out of place. So when you use the relevant background. You must be careful to consider. Background style and object style. Is it suitable? Being able to match or near both styles with each other is very important.

Jewelry Photography with Color Lighting Background Difficult Point:

How to set the flash power to control color lighting background bright level.

If you set the power is too high the small light bulb color will not be displayed or go to white, on the other side if set too low the small light bulb color background may be too prominent.

You need to try few times the small bulb, object, and camera distance.

This photo only turns white balance, brightness, de dust, and crop image no too much retouching.

Below in this photo, the ring surface is turned brighter. More retouching.

Jewelry Photography Review

Many Jewelry Photography methods for shooting diamonds on the Internet, using continuous light sources and setting a longer time exposure. This method is also possible, but after shooting, you need to use software to enhance the contrast. In my experience, it is because use continuous light to take a diamond's ring photo, long time exposures will have contrast problems, not enough contrast. But you can soft this problem on the software. In these times I use flash to take a diamonds ring's photo.

Use flash to take jewelry photography difficult point: 

How to set the flash beam tube. Let the light reflect the diamond's texture. Need to try different height and angle many times. If you choose the wrong height and angle. You will see the diamond surface is all white or all black and has no diamond details.

Below photos only turn the white balance, brightness, de dust, and crop image no too much retouching.

Test Lightmeter Photography Review

Test Lightmeter Photography Step:

Lightmeter profile:

1st take JPG photo 1/30 ISO 400(I use 800) same setting at F8, F2.8, F22

2nd open SEKONIC software: Data Transfer Software

3rd Fine-tuning and make a profile according to 3 jpg photo and sent to the lightmeter.

Test Lightmeter

1st Lighting setup

2nd use lightmeter to calculation a light source

3rd take a photo with Gary card and set a white balance

4th take color checker passport, last to set a color management

Toys Photography

In this photography. I think the ground is not enough bright.

If left-hand side Flash set higher. The ground will be more bright.

SEKONIC Light meter profile and color checker passport profile setting ref:

https://youtu.be/foa_aEzGcUY

All photo ref only.

Cocktail - Poster - Easy roll stand - All Day Breakfast - Photogarphy - Mini Club

Poster, Easy roll stand - Mini Club 

Design and Photography Review

Poster Design and Photography. The shooting venue is in a Night Club. There the light is very weak. The shooting direction and conception. The front object is clear, the back area is hazy. Flash beam tube, the light setting is downwards from a high place. The difficulty point is in the setting angle of the light and the flash power level. The cocktail is the main object, near the cocktail is a candlestick. Both objects need the same clear.  Flash should not be too strong or too weak. What aperture should be used? and the aperture should not be too large. It is because the cocktail and the candlestick should also be clear. How to let the above idea be successful. We need to try several times. Setting right flash power, right aperture, right shutter speed. When success taking this photo. Then put the promotional contents requested by the customer on the artwork. The design techniques, photo and text proportions, light and dark processing, 1/3 2/3 golden proportions. These are all techniques that will be used.

This photo takes by DSLR Canon EOS 550D.

Artwork made by ai and photoshop.

Lighting set on the cocktail glass. The focal point on a cocktail. Blur shop dark area make a background. The lighting area and Dark area make a contrast.  Use handwriting fonts to make a welcome feeling.

All Day Breakfast - Photography and Colour Management Review

All Day Breakfast Photography. Below's photo has color management. Take photos to make a Color Management. This process is given a photo a color standard. Colorchecker Passport has a Grey color surface. 1. Use your camera to take a grey color surface. 2. Camera manual setting white balance, use grey color surface's photo. Colorchecker Passport has many color square surfaces. 3. Take this surface photo. 4. Take the main object's photo. 5. Open Adobe Lightroom import all photos inside from the camera. 6. Use Colorchecker passport many color square surface photos, to make the color profile. 7. Use this profile to apply to the main object's photo. Why do we need this process? It is because different devices show the color is different. They have their own individual color profile. So person A sees the photo color, which may be different from person B. But we need to make a standard in the photo. When A and B's device same to make color management, then A and B person see the same photo color's different will be small. If you still have an interest in this process. You can search on google or youtube. There has much information you need.

All Day Breakfast Photography.

This photo is taken by Canon EOS 550D

This photo has Colour management by Adobe Lightroom

I used a Colorchecker passport to color manage this photo.

Poster, Coupon, Easy roll stand - Food Photography - Mini Club - Design Review

Poster, Easy roll stand - Mini Club - Design Review

Mini Club Poster and Easy Roll Design. Customer this times request hotel design direction. The design feature of this time is the photo size, color, pattern, and Adobe Garamond fonts. In the upper part of the post, the slogan and the oyster photo are the protagonists, and in the lower part of the poster a smaller photo one big and three small. The overall vision is 1/3 2/3 golden proportion. From the blank position of the text until the ratio between the photo and the photo is quite good. Use light brown and dark brown colors to create contrast, dim patterns, and the following elements to achieve a hotel design direction.

Coupon - Mini - Design Review

Mini Club coupon Design. Customer this times request night club direction. The design feature of this time is the photo size, color, and pattern. On the right side of the coupon, the logo, and the promotion text, are in the 2/3 area, and on the left side part of the coupon is a photo 1/3 area of the coupon. The overall vision is 1/3 2/3 golden proportion. From the text area to the photo, the ratio is quite good. All coupons are used in a dark color and pattern to create a high-class nightclub direction. Following all about these elements to achieve a nightclub design direction.

Mini Club Coupon Design Review

Photo - Food 19F - Photography Review

Shooting purpose at creates sunshine atmosphere and delicious food.

Flash setup:

Two light sources.

1. The backlight softbox.

2. Left-hand side 90-degree softbox.

3. Right-hand side set a mirror to create a reflective fill of the light.

Poster - Photopraphy - Booklet - Packaging - Booth - cecedille

Poster - cecedille - Design and Photography Review

Poster - cecedille - Design and Photography Review

This Skincare product is making skin whitening and smoothing. Out concept is snow. Snow's feature is white and smooth. In this photo, we use a thick white cloth to make a background. The thick white cloth visual in the photo is very near the snow.

Booklet - cecedille - Design Review

Cecedille this series's main ingredient is OXYGEN. The main color tone is blue. The Blue circle is OXYGEN. You can see the square booklet center has a human face and hands shape. The bright area is on the face and hands shape area. It can be easy to understand this product is a skincare product. 

Packaging - cecedille - Design Review

New box structure ideas.

Merge: box structure and inner fixed product structure.

Purpose: Lower production costs.

Booth - cecedille - Design Review

Facial masks, skincare booth design.

Hong Kong's beauty industry exhibition is held at the Wan Chai "Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre". Many beauty companies attract business at this exhibition

We use a light yellow color, a wooden cabinet,  a comfortable sofa, Banners, stickers, etc accessories to build up the SPA feeling. Hope to bring customers a feeling of relaxation, comfort, freedom, and nature. Another side, we use two sidewalks to more increase the exposure of the exhibition. To attract more customers can watch our exhibition.