Taking good product photos will greatly enhance your catalog. However, photographing black items can make it more difficult, as black is always black.

So the author tells you about his experience in photographing some media equipment, and how he set up to make sure he got the specular highlights and reflections the way he wanted.  The author also points out potential issues you may run into with the background, if you are wanting a white background, which is fairly common.

Link to the Article – via Strobist

Taking Good Product Photos – When the Product is Black was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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