Arts and crafts have been on a meteoric rise in recent years, with online marketplaces such as Etsy and notonthehighstreet.com reporting exponential growth as more and more individuals and businesses get creative. Seen as a more personal counterpoint to the mass-produced, standardized wares we interact with on a daily basis, handmade items offer us a stab […]
Not far from our Sussex photography studios is a great little company called Chisel & Mouse. Brothers Robert and Gavin Paisley are architecture nuts and produce visually arresting, detailed plaster sculptures of iconic buildings and even whole cityscapes, combining traditional sculpting, moulding and casting with CAD and 3D printing. They’ve produced a huge array of recognisable artworks and bespoke pieces for private collectors, businesses […]
Thankfully, it’s not all 3D glasses, cybersex and hashtags galore these days – there’s been a remarkable resurgence over the last few years in traditional arts and crafts, textiles and needlework. In an increasingly disposable, virtually-skewed world, there’s obviously something satisfyingly therapeutic about sitting down and creating tangible and lasting objects, and we’ve been inundated with work of […]
We recently shot a large number of shoes for a client on a tight schedule. Whenever you’re shooting a big batch of items, it’s important to find a good all-around lighting solution, not just to present consistency across your edit, but to save yourself time and headaches in the studio. Our client wanted white backdrops and small, […]
Despite Amazon’s best efforts to copyright such a universal concept, the majority of the time, product photography involves shooting onto white backgrounds. Clients generally want their products to be presented cleanly, crisply and free of any potentially distracting elements. Frequently they’ll require cut-outs so their photographed wares can easily be combined or inserted into other images. Symmetry also tends to […]
We shoot a lot of invisible mannequin work here at Photography Firm and we’ve learned it’s best to cover your butt in the studio to save you and your client time and stress down the line. By “cover your butt” we mean ensure you get all the shots you might later need, although we also subscribe […]
Product photography is about presenting your subject in a flattering, commercially viable, occasionally hyper-real light. Garments need to be the right shape, products need to stand up or float in mid-air without the aid of a grubby set of digits clasping them. Whether you’re shooting 200 dresses on an invisible mannequin or one hero shot […]
Product and packshot photography is a necessity for anyone wishing to market their goods, whether online, in printed material or for advertising. There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to capturing product images, but here we’ll give you ten tips that will help you on your way to better product photography, no matter your […]
Flat lay has been all the rage on social media for some time now. You only need to search #flatlay on pinterest or instagram to yield tens of thousands of images. So, just what is a flat lay photography and why is it so popular? In simple terms it describes any photograph taken from above with objects […]
Like any profession, photography can ocassionally be a little stressful, but we love what we do, so if you hear about us checking for greys, it’s more likely to do with white balance than the hairs on our heads. Where fine art photography might allow various interpretations of a scene or aesthetic freedom on the […]
