3 DIY Lighting Setups For Shooting Reflective Products

Ring lights are a big love-hate thing in the world of photography. What they mean by that is that the viewer is presented with the subject without being distracted by the complicated lighting. In the case of ring lights, checking the price of its replaceable bulbs would be a smart thing to do. Moreover, check the durability and quality of the product and don't just buy a cheap product with inferior quality.

Thomas Kragelund is the CEO and founder of Pixelz, a leading product image solutions partner for internet retailers, bloggers, designers, photographers and webmasters worldwide. Softbox lights enable you to direct light to the exact spot in the shot, and they make lighting subjects and particular parts of a scene much easier.

We suggest using a ring light to obtain well-lit photographs without loss of detail, with any type of cameras. Being able to confidently light a set in different ways, will help you pick the best look for the type of food you're shooting and the mood you're going for.

When used in photography, it creates an attractive catch light on a subject's eyes while emitting even, diffused lighting that helps eliminate shadows. The lamp of this LED ring light includes 300 small LED bulbs - half of them emit yellow color light and another half - white color light.

With strobes, one can dial the intensity of the light down or up in minute increments, and since shutter speed doesn't matter (below a certain threshold - shutters can be too fast” for strobes and that will get discussed more later), aperture can be adjusted to control the Rmit Sharma look” of the product in concert with moving the lights around the object (close or distant).

You can mount everything together using the flash bracket and can lock in the settings you need to get perfect results every time. Just point the lens in the direction of the sun and move your camera around slightly to change the shooting angle until you capture the amount of flare that you want.

The insects don't stay in a flower very long, but a high-magnification lens and versatile macro lighting make it possible to get the image in a flash, so to speak. Share your best Macro Photographs with us on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #MacroPhotoWeek for a chance to win a new macro lens and other prizes.

Viewers are captivated by larger-than-life images of very small things, especially when the photographs reveal fascinating details in commonplace subjects. The first step in improving your product images is to nail the photoshoot. A photographer might even add a background light, pointed at the backdrop, to draw (shape) light or texture on the background in order to make the subject stand out better, if the background is a part of the desired result.

As we've talked about in previous discussions on macro photography, one of the main issues with this genre of photography the problem of light fall off. These spectacular highlights instantly make the portrait more attractive and engaging, as they instantly draw the viewer's attention to the subject's eyes.

The first thing you notice when you dive with the Athena ring-flash without an external strobe is how much more streamlined your system is. This is particularly true for photographers shooting advanced point and shoot systems where the strobe arms are often 3 times as long as the entire housing.