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If you want to bring an extra level of dynamism to your still life or product photos why not try playing with gravity and motion like this? With a combination of shooting skills, precise placement and a little Photoshop magic, images like this are within the reach of anyone with a camera. As for the lighting, we used three flashes to light our scene here, but if you want to keep things simple you could forego the flash altogether and use the ambient light from a window. Over the next few pages, we'll go behind the scenes to see how a gravity-defying still life can be achieved. From the lighting setup to the careful posing to the simple post-processing, we'll look at each stage in the workflow, and explain key photography skills that can prove invaluable for all kinds of creative projects.
Our budget here didn't stretch to 21 watering cans plus five assistants to pour the water, so instead we shot our set of just three watering cans in stages over several frames, using a tripod to keep the frames in alignment.
This is one of the advantages of having control over the lighting, the positioning of the subjects and the framing: it gives us the freedom to shoot our image in several stages making sure one part of the frame is perfect before moving on to the next.
Once the set of images are captured it's a fairly simple task to bring everything together in Photoshop.
HOW TO SET UP THE STUDIO
Get set up for creative still-life photographs lit with flash
1 CAMERA SETTINGS
When using off-camera flash it's usually best to set your exposure to Manual mode with ISO100. First, set the shutter speed to 1/200 sec and aperture to f/8, then take a test shot and either adjust the power of the lights or the aperture until the exposure looks right. Here we had our camera set to 1/200 sec, f/5.6, ISO100.
2 TRIPOD
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