Tabletop Photography Fundamentals
You don’t need a studio to take professional-grade product and still life photographs! All you need is a simple tabletop lighting setup. In this course, award-winning food photographer Andrew Scrivani will show you how to create and tailor your own table top lighting setup — on any budget. Whether you’re a beginning photographer looking to master lighting or a professional photographer eager to expand your services, this course will give you a candid, comprehensive playbook for tabletop lighting.
Tabletop photography transforms a single surface into a small-scale studio. Andrew, a regular contributor to The New York Times, will show you how to create and then optimize your lighting setup for your needs — using everything from the latest gear to household items. Andrew will cover metering and bounce cards, working with strobes and soft boxes, LED lighting, and tips for shooting glassware and other tricky products.
By the end of this course, you will know how to set up and adjust your very own tabletop studio — and how to use that small-scale studio to expand your services, improve your photography, and market your business.
Lessons
Course OverviewDaylight for Product Photography
Daylight Examples
Shoot: Daylight Lighting - Tote Bag
Shoot: Daylight Lighting - Tea Towel
Shoot: Daylight and Augmented Daylight
Free Preview: No Budget DIY Tools
Shoot: No Budget Set-up
Shoot: Black Plexi - Headphone Experiments
Shoot: Experiments Continued
Shoot: Light Tent - Jewelry
Shoot: Light Tent - Creative Backdrops
Shoot: Jewelry Experiments
Equipment Overview
Shoot: Art Work Basics
Shoot: Single Strobe - Cheese Grater
Shoot: Single Strobe - Round Grater
Shoot: 2 Lights - Round Grater
Shoot: Hot Lights - Glass Vase
Shoot: Hot Lights - Crystal Glasses
Shoot: Single Light - Clear Objects
Shoot: Camera Bag - Stills
Shoot: Camera Bag - Video
Shoot: Knife - Stills and Video
Shoot: Styling a Cookbook
Shoot: Styling a Cookbook Continued
Shoot: Low End Set-up for Jewelry
Shoot: Low End Set-up for Jewelry Continued
Shoot: Textiles - Baby Clothes
Shoot: Textiles - Hankies
Shoot: Hankies - Vertical
Shoot: Group One
Shoot: Group Two
Reviews
- I was pleased to see real life situations and set ups, their work arounds and the little fiddly things all commercial/product photographers go through to produce a viable shot. Unlike some of the other reviews, the "oops, it didn't work, let's try this instead" was totally real world and believable. So many times on other teaching venues, the shot is already set up and perfected before the instruction begins. It was extremely helpful to watch the processes that were involved in producing the correct captures. I was impressed with the humor and teaching style as well, especially for the time constraints in a classroom setting. The student set-ups and critiques were valuable and spot on without being negative in any way. All-in-all this was one of the best classes I've viewed at Creative Live. I just wish I could have had three more days and to have been there in person for the one-on-one instruction.
- I really liked how things were experimented. Instead of just giving do x, y, z. It shows you how to correct issues as they come up, and how to enhance your photography This gives you a guided idea of all the things you can play with to perfect your product photography image. You really learn how to fix the image problems as they appear in front of you. A very realistic way to create your own personal lighting setup for your product photos for your own studio space. Excellent fundamentals class for new photographers or small businesses attempting to do their own product photography. Thank you!
- very nice table top