Kens Photography Blog

This is a followup post to Product protography – white seamless backgrounds. When creating isolated product photos, you end up with a photo that isn’t connected to its environment via a shadow, but a reflection can look very cool. The problem in keeping the reflection when using the technique shown in the previous article is [...]

If you have taken a look at some of the backgrounds you can purchase you will have noticed that they are realy expensive. You can make your own studio backgrounds with painters canvas for cheap and they will be extremely durable and tough.

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.

The ExpoDisc is a device that you put in front of your lense, snap a shot directy at your lightsource from the view of the subject, then you just select that shot in your camera as the custom white balance and voila, perfect neutral colors and no need to fiddle in post or RAW converter. [...]

The Zone System, developed by Ansel Adams is the most important thing I ever learned in photograhy, and I urge any new photographer to learn it to. Knowing how to use the Zone System means that you can look at any scene and expose the important parts just how you like them. No more over [...]

Here’s a cool trick to know if you can’t afford to buy 3-4 flashes to create elaborate lighting setups. It only works for scenes with no movement, like backgrounds.

This is a fun little trick. With a lens with low aparture, like 1.8 you can get realy blurred backgrounds. The blobby spots for lack of a better word, oh wait… it’s called bokeh, take shape from the lens blades. The more blades the smoother bokeh. What if you could take all those little spots [...]