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Photographing Furniture on a Backdrop

By Gary Weeks
Posted Mar 25, 2013
Categories: The Business

trestle table photographed on a backdrop
trestle table showing photo flash baffle
Photographing Furniture 3 Wp

Changing to a wide-angle lens, I took a picture of the set-up.  You can see the parachute cloth to the right.  The main light is about 3 feet behind it and six feet high.

Notes:  The camera is a Canon Rebel xsi.  There is a ring flash on the camera at the tripod. The exposure is ISO100, F8 at 1/250.  The lens is a prime 50, 1:1.4.  It seems to me that zoom lenses distort furniture, and true lines are critical.  The lights are Alien Bees.  Seeing these results, we are going to build three sturdy, flat black panels (1/8” plywood laminated to a each side of a frame) that can support themselves in various ways.  I ordered another light to go behind the baffles.

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