Tabletop Photography: Using Compact Flashes and Low-Cost Tricks to Create Professional-Looking Studio Shots

Imagine capturing stunning, professional-looking product shots without needing a studio filled with expensive equipment and large flash units. This book teaches all the steps for creating your own tabletop photography studio.

Affordable compact flashes offer a number of creative lighting options within your tabletop studio; and the appropriate lighting and backdrop, and the creative use of your camera's features are key to a perfect image.

Author Cyrill Harnischmacher guides you through a variety of exposure and lighting techniques, and covers how to achieve excellent results using compact flash units. Whether you wish to capture product images for use in print or on the web, or you want to improve your photos for personal use, this book will provide you with everything you need to know to get great results.

Topics include:

Lighting Setups; Reflectors, Diffusors, and Accessories; Soft Boxes and Umbrellas; Strobe Flashes; Combining Long Exposures with Flashlights; Multi-Flash Exposures; Composition and Arrangements; Creating Backdrops; Product Photography; Smoke, Fog, and Special Effects; Food Photography and much more...

• The New Lighting for Product Photography: The Digital Photographer's Step-by-Step Guide to Sculpting with Light
• The Art and Style of Product Photography
• Still Life and Special Effects Photography: A Guide to Professional Lighting Techniques, Second Edition
• Digital Still Life Photography: Art, Business & Style
• The Flash Book: How to fall hopelessly in love with your flash, and finally start taking the type of images you bought it for in the first place
• The Headshot: The Secrets to Creating Amazing Headshot Portraits (Voices That Matter)
• Light Science & Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
• The Photographer's Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas
• The Food Stylist's Handbook: Hundreds of Media Styling Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for Chefs, Artists, Bloggers, and Food Lovers
• The Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow