HOPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!
What is you favorite Easter candy? One of mine has to be the Reese’s Milk Chocolate and Peanut Butter Eggs.
I had a few of these around the house so I decided why not do an Easter addition to my blog and show you all how I photographed these delicious treats.
The Packaging
Photographing the packaging on these can be a little tricking because of the shinny quality of it. You need enough light to be able to see the label well but not so much that all you're doing is creating hot spots. Hot spots is when an area of the photo is significantly brighter than other areas making the area look blown out.
Another issue that I was having with this type of packaging was that it was all wrinkled up. I wasn’t able to solve this problem completely but I was able to take some of the wrinkles out by giving each end of the package a little tug. I do not think that the wrinkles are the biggest problem though because it does add some texture to the image.
Lighting
Both images were lit by a strobe light on the right side and a piece of white poster-board on the left side to reflect light. This technic allows for lighting that exposes the product but doesn’t make the image flat and boring.
Staging the Final Image
As I have said in post before props are important but you don’t want to take away from the product. Since this is an Easter candy I thought it would be appropriate to use the fake grass like stuff that one finds in their baskets along with the red and white checkered cloth napkin. I kept one of the eggs still in the packaging because I did not feel that the cut egg gave the viewer enough insight into what the product was. Sometimes you have to give the viewer more information in order for them to know what you are selling.
Thanks for reading. I hope you all had a great Easter!