Kens Photography Blog

I’ve tried a number of techniques for getting perfect seamless 100% “blown” backgrounds. Most people use seamless paper, a roll of paper hanging so it curves, before comming up with a better way, this was what I used, but often it doesn’t get the results I wanted. Here’s what you need to create perfect white [...]

I have been having an annoying problem with my product shots lacking good contrast so I had to do it in post. I just got a set of bardoors for my setup, a very cool set with a honeycomb grid and 4 gels from the danish photography and studio lighting shop Flash og Fotobutikken I [...]

If you don’t know, barndoors are a set of 4 flaps on hinges that you can pull up in front of your flash heads to control your light with great presicion.

It’s important to remember that specular highlight is basically a mirror of your lightsource. If you put up a mirror so it reflects your light the inverse square law is not in effect for the mirror (The speculars become smaller, but does not lose intensity). No matter if the light is close to the mirror, [...]

Here’s a couple tips I use when doing product and tabletop photography to get the maximum image quality.

I’m currently gnawing my way though the amazing book Light Science and Magic and finally learned how to light glass and glass objects using a technique called Bright Field and Dark Field Lighting.

Don’t have an expensive Sekonic Flash incident meter? Not to worry, here’s a super tip to get your lighting ratios set quickly. Tie a string to the flash head somewhere, important, we want it so it moves with the flash head up and down. Every time you shoot something, take the string and roll it [...]

I been wanting to get into product and stock photography for a while and yesterday I pulled the trigger on a Bowens strobe kit.