Special techniques

[Levina de Ruijter]

I like these a lot. How would this be done exactly with an iPad?

From what I understand, you just choose a nice colourful pattern on the iPad and put a spoon, a fork etc. on it and then photograph that. From a low angle of course. I did it the hard way and never tried it with an iPad.

 

[K9Kirk]

A flickr friend once posted images like these and when I asked how she got the reflections on both the subject and below it she challenged me to find out. What followed was a long evening of experimenting with a glass plate, a colourful piece of cloth and a couple of flashes placed strategically. After I posted these images my friend told me she had just used an ipad as background...


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Cool stuff, Levina!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Cool stuff, Levina!

Thanks very much, Kirk!

 

[PhotoNut]

From what I understand, you just choose a nice colourful pattern on the iPad and put a spoon, a fork etc. on it and then photograph that. From a low angle of course. I did it the hard way and never tried it with an iPad.

I'm going to try.

Do you have more of these? That you can post I mean.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I don't have a lot of these shots, but here are two more.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Funny, the EXIF says "no flash fired" but I most definitely used flash.

 

[Blackbird]

I don't have a lot of these shots, but here are two more.

They are beautiful.

 

[Jack Dawe]

These are great!

 

[PhotoNut]

I don't have a lot of these shots, but here are two more.

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So the spoons are positioned on a plate of glass, which rests on a piece of cloth. And then you shoot it with some flash going off. Do I have that right?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

So the spoons are positioned on a plate of glass, which rests on a piece of cloth. And then you shoot it with some flash going off. Do I have that right?

Yes, that's it. The difficult part is where and how to position the lights. That was a lot of trial and error.

I'd just use an iPad...