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Can't believe I just found your site. Great tutorials. I have a small space to work from. Just ordered your disc plate & acrylic squares. Best part of your videos is how you show the method to find the best positions and the effects.
There's a certain level of depth and knowledge in your videos which come at us through your sentences and efficiency, you are very educative, easy to understand, soft on ears, and to the point. Thank you for producing these videos, sharing them with the world and being good at what you do, it's a learning experience for everyone.
Fantastic tutorials dude! Crisp image, non-intrusive short intro, super informative and always straight to the point. I don't even photograph much except with my phone, but I always take a few minutes to watch the videos you upload! Keep it up!
A great tutorial! I like that you move right along, without repeating yourself -- since the left arrow key does that just fine! Very detailed, and a high degree of certainty. Your promotional mention was smooth, and you jumped right back to the point. I'm also impressed by how you asked so nicely for comments and thumbs up. The first of your video's I've watched; I'm very impressed, and happy to take the time to comment. Thank you for all the time you put into this excellent instruction!
I appreciate the comment, really -- thanks! Love your point about the left arrow, I certainly prefer concise teaching as well. Stay tuned, I'm sure you'll like some upcoming episodes in the works. Take care, Blair!
I've been working on my bottle renders a lot lately and I really love the soft highlights on the left of the bottle. I've been able to emulate the soft box look by aiming an area light at a polygon with the roughness turned up a bit to make the edges softer
Wow this was a really good explanation and a beautiful rendition of the wine bottle and grapes. I took a lot from this, thank you. What a shoot, bravo!
You could "erase" the banding. Just apply some blur filter. I know some of the pixels from the background are going to contaminate the bottle, but you already have a good selection of the bottle: Just make it active, invert the selection and mask it! Try it! That's what I do, and it works for me. Thanks for your tutorials. I have enjoyed this one, and the one you made of the apple beverage with just ONE light. Very rarely I do commercial shots like these, but it is always good to learn something new.
Dustin, another great video, I like the Gradiation. I learn so much just watching you. I love your Lightroom tips and shortcuts, that is where I am weak. Thank you for showing your workflow, I have not seen anyone else on youtube who goes through this type of workflow. Keep the video's coming.
It is just ASKING for a Spritz! You can almost taste the Dollarama. Thanks for watching the videos Neil, I hope you like our next video this week on glassware!
Thanks your methods are very informative. I always use a front diffuse flashed label layer as well, so I have the option to mask in or strengthen the label text or any label features.
Try 16bit or 32bit color mode to reduce banding, save BG then bring it back in @ 8bit if your comp can't handle it. 30 to 40 layers and 25 gig files are killers on CPU.
Another stunning shot nicely taken through - thank you! I love how you use light to make your selections it's really opened my eyes to being able to make far more detailed and difficult selections of things I might not have attempted before. I'd love to see more photoshop techniques explained you have a great way of putting them across 👍
Enigma Vapes Thanks! I got the idea for the light selection while slaving away with the pen tool. I hope you enjoy our future episodes, thanks for engaging we appreciate it bigly!
Thanks for sharing this! If you want to add flexibility to your background workflow, I recommend using fill and gradient layers, instead of using the fill and gradient tools. This way you can adjust color, shape and location easily without having to use the separate tools. Also, about your gradient question; once you convert your image from 16-bit to 8-bit (per channel), photoshop will automatically smooth out the gradients, so it doesn't really matter what they look like while still editing.
Wondering if you could create a subtle pool of light around the base of the bottle and grapes by shining a low output diffused light, perhaps a constant color corrected LED, from below and through the plexiglass…may need to create a circular or oval pattern of the right size using black wrap or some other sort of modifier though not many are available for LEDs. I’m going to try this with both constant and a low power speed lite or small strobe. Normally pools of light created shooting down from above but shooting up from below may be a cool effect. Thoughts ?
with the BIG freeze coming our way (as per the weatherman) thought i'd try a it of still life and product photography and i must say it's consumed me totally. i'm totally loving it cos i can take photos any time despite the lousy weather. luckily, i stumbled upon your channel and i must say i'm really enjoying the way you construct the shot step by step and explain everything so clearly. you make everything look so easy. i've learnt some good concepts from your videos. the only thing i'm struggling with is the compositing and masks. no reflection on you. photoshop is my weak point. you're doing a great job. i was wondering if you could make some videos on compositing, masks and other essential techniques for beginners like me. keep up the good work :)
Dustin, Great Videos! Could you share some of the technical sides of this photography, What shutter speed you use most of the time, and if you change, why? What aperture, if change, why? Are you shooting in a dark room? Thanks.
Great questions. I always shoot at 1/200s - because that is the darkest shutter speed I can use while my flash still syncs (research your own flashes max sync speed). I shoot in the darkest room possible, though my typical settings of f/11 ISO100 1/200 render a black frame when the flash is not firing - which is deal. Sometimes I stop-down to f/13-f/16 when it is vital the edges are really sharp on a deeper item. Thanks!
learning a lot from this thank you! Question @ 11:44 when you paste white you're retaining the shape of your black object. When I paste white it pastes in the shape of my "crude" lasso. Any help on how you get it to retain the bottle shape and not the lasso tool selection shape. Thank you!
Thanks for asking Jeff, I hope I understood what you mean. I simply inverted the selection (Ctrl+Shift+i) before pasting. The black shape was already cut out on perfect white, so the result is a seamless layer. Let me know if I misunderstood!
Dustin you rock! I'm learning so much with you.Thank you! Once you have the black bottle on perfect white how do you then get the clipping path? Are you manually tracing the black bottle or is there a quick way to make a selection path from the Bottle outline?
Jeff Shreiner Happy to help! So the perfect silhouette of the bottle IS all you need to mask it. You Can simply copy the whole layer and paste it into your 'layer mask' -- I just used the saved 'clipping path' to save the data in the interim. For more tips on masking my video 'Single Speedlight Product Compositing' will help lots! Cheers and thanks again for watching.
Color background gives a lot more drama, but completely black background givs more strogness. Its like the colord one is the sweet wine and the black one isn't, its can be a photographic way to tell about the nature of wine))) Kipp working hard my friend, and hope you will give a lot great ideas
How do you manage to get absolutely no shake/motion blur when using the manual shutter release on camera? In this episode, unlike others where you’ve used a wireless remote, the pics are steady and perfect. Always great tutorials!
Hi, I'm really enjoying your videos! I'm somewhat new to photography, and have never worked with lights before. Could you let me know why one would use speedlights over say, always on LED panels? If the lights were always on, you would be able to see how they light the subject no? Or do you just get more light out of a flash? Thanks!
Great question, a lot of my tutorials are interchangeable using constant lighting, I own an LED panel myself. The benefit of a flash is a brief flash duration, which can freeze motion (see my other classical wine episode). That and, the batteries are very efficient (-: Do you shoot with constant lighting?
Not yet, I'm beginning to build a shopping list though to start setting up a home 'studio' of sorts, tossing up between the two. Thanks for the insight!
you lost the sliver lines on the side of the wine label. Very interesting about the bit depth towards the end. Are you working in 8 or 16 bit? good job on your videos too!
@@workphlo thinking about the banding - I know my graphic designer friend had to buy a top pro monitor because he couldn't see banding in a gradient, and he was doing a 4 color run for a client :-(. I know PixImperfect did a video on 8bit vs 16 bit and banding. thanks! oh. wanted to ask, why you are still using speedlites instead of real studio strobes - just wondering. I can see it maybe with high speed sync, but... I was wondering if you've ever compared switching out with regular studio strobes & if there is any difference lighting wise visually. I am amazed what you and others are doing with speedlites. again, thank you so much
Well done Dustin, I just need to improve my PS skills. The only thing didn't convince me was the silver square around the grape, but is just personal observation, keep posting, here we still learning. :D
Great tutorial Dustin! Have you tried to use a remote for your camera before? I noticed you often walk to your camera and some shots are a little bit offset from each other from you physically pressing the button, and was wondering if a cable release or an IR remote would be beneficial.
Thank you for this video, going fast and need to come back and practice to really catch everything but as I like photographing wine, it is not a problem :-)
So I use 2 kinds, a bag of 10 black clamps which are heavy duty and produced by Neewer (sorry can't get the link at the moment, order on Canada amazon though) and a pack of 2 -- same clamps but with light stand attachments for the large diffusion material I use. Best of luck!
Hello Dustin, thanks for your superb tutos! :-) I want to ask how you did it with the black plexy surface from amazon, because you have linked us a transparency glass instead of black? Did you use this or a black? Did you have another link or a hint how you make it shine black? Thanks and regards Guido
Hey there! I used transparent plexiglass here, and linked the black plexiglass I use 95% of the time, in the description. You can also get small sheets of clear plexiglas -- which I use in our white wine tutorial, give it a look as well! (-:
Hey Dustin, sorry but you did it in the other way, for German Amazon you linked the transparency Version and i cannot find the black one that you use all the time! Did you have a correct link for me? Thanks so much! :-)
Well done! You might be able to save a bit of walking if you use the 560TX to adjust the power on the 560IV remotely, rather than walking around to the flash.
good video. I wonder if you could not just use pen tool for making selection of bottle and grapes much faster than taking extra pictures and messing with layers masks and combining them all together only to make final selection.
Usually one shot back-lit suffices, though even when some tweaking is needed I seriously prefer letting light determine my selection when possible! Thanks for watching, Milan.
I used the technique and it worked fine, but I had difficulty showing the black color of a bottle. The bottle reflected everything in the room. How can a bottle become black or the color of wine as it is in reality? I used white dispersion, or what is called transparencies, and its reflection appeared to me in a blurry white color. I really want you to help me. How is it possible to show the color of the bottle if it tends to be black without any reflection on it?
Hi! ThE best solution to banding in this case is to apply noise to the gradient layer. Please have a try and let me know ;) BTW i uploaded my first product photo to the facebook group! Thank you for all you teach us!!!
To fix the gradient banding, change the image to 16 bits/channel before you start editing and when you've finished all of your edits, revert back to 8 bits/channel and save the PSD then :) This will give you super smooth gradient transition, but not make the file size too big.
Would be great if you could do a video on just how to create the layer mask & put this onto a backgound, keeping it real simple and slow, using menus rather than keyboard shortcuts. Your method looks so powerful, but far to complex for some of us to follow. Thanks.
Thank-you, I will consider doing a long-form of this method. Watch slowly and re-watch when you have time, it's really just a handful of shortcuts I use and name them all outloud!
Hi Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. Love your channel as it gives ideas for things we can do at home without the need for a studio. Have re-watched but your photoshop knowledge is way to advanced for me to follow, looks like some of the other viewers struggle also. Would love some simpler vids to follow or maybe something like this vid broken down into separate units, setup, lighting, layer mask, final editing etc, but no keyboard shortcuts please, they are only shortcuts if you know what they mean :o) Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, will keep liking & watching to help bump you up the youtube list.
Hi Dustin, What size is the softbox that you placed behind the bottle to get the selection outline. I see a link for a 120x30 but the one you used appeared to be bigger than that. Can you please confirm the size?
Hey Chris! The Canadian link is the exact model I used -- by a brand called LA Softbox (only choice pretty much in Canada). I will have to get back to you with a confirmation of the width, I just picked up a smaller softbox as well -- I usually take whatever one is prime certified with a "often bought with" speedlight adapter.
workphlo Thanks Dustin, I will take a look at the Canadian link but if you confirm the size for definite that would be great. Also could you confirm the size of the Octabox in the Clinique Lipstick video that would be great. Just having a rewatch of all your videos for the third time 😍
Sorry I let you down on the release date yesterday, new video will be up shortly! The octabox is 100% a 120cm octabox -- again I bought the inexpensive brand umbrella style, prime certified. Actually got it for $39.99 though haven't seen it for that good of price. Newwer and other 3rd party brands will have one for a decent price -- I highly recommend getting this... great piece of equipment for portraits and products. I also got a tri-mount umbrella adapter that allows me to place multiple Speedlights for more "juice".
Hi, thanks for the reply. No worries about the upload, I'm sure it will be worth waiting for. With regards to the stripbox, if it is the 18 x 48 inch one that works out at 45cm x 122cm in the UK. The closest we have over here is 30cm x 120cm of which I already have 2 of and the next closest is 40cm x 200cm which is very tall. A 40cm or 50cm x 120cm would have been perfect. I may have to get a 40cm x 200cm just to give me the extra width although I will play with the 30cm ones first. The ones I have are made by a company called Phot-R.com and seem really good alsol.
Loved the tutorial, but the selection part it's too much work for nothing. Could have used channel mode and levels to speed up the process. Anyways thank you for this tutorial, helped A LOT, in particular the shooting process
If your brush is set to overlay mode, painting black on anything 100% white won't modify it, and it will blacken every other pixel values. Of course the reverse is true, painting white will only affect non 100% black pixels.
Dustin, what's a "specular highlight?" I notice you use that term often, and the highlights it describes sometimes seem to have nothing in common for me to wrap my brain around.
man... have you ever shot for an ad agency? you've got some serious learning to do )) without discussing mistakes with the lighting the product, I just want to make sure that everyone watching this understands that creating this shot without photoshop literally takes 10 minutes, including the background gradient. if using real studio lights and a grid is not an option, it is still doable with speedlights.
The applications of having a bottle selection go farther than this example, we just put a quick gradient in the back. Would love to see your shots, Irakly -- mind linking your portfolio?
Thank you for your explanation on utilities of bottle selections. I started with Photoshop 2.0. I haven't done product photography since 2011. So, nothing new here. www.clients.shanidze.com/home-2/galleries/gallery/product-photography/
My OCD kicked in hard watching this. Lol! I keep wanting to rotate the bottle to cheat the label to the right. Your lighting causes the label to look off center to my eyes.
u need extra money for that "pen tool" probably Wacom Tablet starts at $100-$500 so for the starter; that's a big Amount. U must be a RICH BOY Pogolas, see? the guys just used Speedlight for the lighting setup, meaning this kind of video encouraging those BEGINNERS?, He just trying to show how POWERFUL PHOTOSHOP is?, not what his equipment; common sense DUDE???...U MUST BE WATCHING A DIFFERENT CHANNEL. . . U MUST BE WATCHING "WHAT IS UR GADGETS", tell you what?, even Popular and well-known Photographers in the US and Europe can't afford to buy a HASSELBLAD CAMERA..........I own Canon 5DM4 and 1DxM2 body, and EF 16-35mm f/2.8L Ver3, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L Ver2, and EF 70-200mm f/2.8L Ver3, and Sony A73, A7R3, A7R4, and A7S2 and Solid FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS,, FE 50mm f/2.8 Macro, FE 16-35GM, FE 24-70GM, FE 70-200GM, but still I can't afford to buy HasselBlad Camera for no reason at all
The method you use for creating masks is very slow and convoluted when compared to proper lighting methods. You are making a lot of work for yourself when the simple use of black cards and control of lighting rations will do all the work for you.
Im not talking about the pen tool, Im talking about correct lighting techniques. Firstly you need to make the difference between your front light source and your back light source 1 1/2 stops. Secondly you use black cards to help create a perfect silhouette around the subject. This all takes less than 1 minute. Once done correctly no need for the pen tool.
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Can't believe I just found your site. Great tutorials. I have a small space to work from. Just ordered your disc plate & acrylic squares.
Best part of your videos is how you show the method to find the best positions and the effects.
There's a certain level of depth and knowledge in your videos which come at us through your sentences and efficiency, you are very educative, easy to understand, soft on ears, and to the point. Thank you for producing these videos, sharing them with the world and being good at what you do, it's a learning experience for everyone.
Tanay Pathak That just made my day, thank you!
You're an artist, not only technically but also in explaining things, especially for a starter in this domain like me.
Fantastic tutorials dude! Crisp image, non-intrusive short intro, super informative and always straight to the point. I don't even photograph much except with my phone, but I always take a few minutes to watch the videos you upload! Keep it up!
Thx, much appreciated! Just filmed a new one, stay tuned.
By far, the best tutorial I've found on product photography! THANK YOU!
Strong words, thanks brother!
Can't wait for jewelry tutorial! Working for a jewelry store and UA-cam is really lacking quality Jewelry photography tutorials.
A great tutorial! I like that you move right along, without repeating yourself -- since the left arrow key does that just fine! Very detailed, and a high degree of certainty. Your promotional mention was smooth, and you jumped right back to the point. I'm also impressed by how you asked so nicely for comments and thumbs up. The first of your video's I've watched; I'm very impressed, and happy to take the time to comment. Thank you for all the time you put into this excellent instruction!
I appreciate the comment, really -- thanks! Love your point about the left arrow, I certainly prefer concise teaching as well. Stay tuned, I'm sure you'll like some upcoming episodes in the works. Take care, Blair!
I've been working on my bottle renders a lot lately and I really love the soft highlights on the left of the bottle.
I've been able to emulate the soft box look by aiming an area light at a polygon with the roughness turned up a bit to make the edges softer
dude you are amazing. Its a shame theres only few vids on your channel. please create more
We have a couple dozen episodes! But I agree it's time to make a bunch more! Stay tuned
Wow this was a really good explanation and a beautiful rendition of the wine bottle and grapes. I took a lot from this, thank you. What a shoot, bravo!
Thank you Darron
I really really enjoy your techniques. Please create more videos. It’s really a pleasure following your content.
Thanks Dave. I've got a few in the works at the moment, I appreciate you viewing!
You could "erase" the banding. Just apply some blur filter. I know some of the pixels from the background are going to contaminate the bottle, but you already have a good selection of the bottle: Just make it active, invert the selection and mask it!
Try it! That's what I do, and it works for me.
Thanks for your tutorials. I have enjoyed this one, and the one you made of the apple beverage with just ONE light. Very rarely I do commercial shots like these, but it is always good to learn something new.
Thanks for taking us through the Photoshop side!
No problem, I will record Photoshop when possible (-:
Dustin, another great video, I like the Gradiation. I learn so much just watching you. I love your Lightroom tips and shortcuts, that is where I am weak. Thank you for showing your workflow, I have not seen anyone else on youtube who goes through this type of workflow. Keep the video's coming.
Christopher Hand Thanks I really appreciate your insight. 🍇🍷
really informative and done at a nice pace, easy to follow and great workflow tips - fabulous stuff
Cheers!
Really great tutorials with minimum requirements ..👍👍
Thank you
Great tutorials even years after you made them. Thanks for the info. Learned a lot!
Glad you like them! Stay tuned for our episode on 360 product photos
Really great technique... Love the way how u deconstruct all the lighting methods... Great job, helped me a lot in my photography works.
Biju Gopal Awesome, so glad we could assist.
great tutorials, many thanks for sharing, learning a lot
Love to hear this.
Thank You for very clear instructions to achieve this kind of image.
The catalogue for selection mask - genius. Spritz that garnish, my dude!
It is just ASKING for a Spritz! You can almost taste the Dollarama. Thanks for watching the videos Neil, I hope you like our next video this week on glassware!
Man, i'm from Russia. You video is so good for me. Thx for good work!
Keep 'em coming!! Awesome!
More coming! Just dropped a new vid.
Great tutorial Dustin. keep up the good work!
Thanks your methods are very informative. I always use a front diffuse flashed label layer as well, so I have the option to mask in or strengthen the label text or any label features.
Nice work, Dustin. Keep going.
Joshua Blaylock Thx 🐸
Try 16bit or 32bit color mode to reduce banding, save BG then bring it back in @ 8bit if your comp can't handle it. 30 to 40 layers and 25 gig files are killers on CPU.
Mechtasy Appreciated!
Another stunning shot nicely taken through - thank you! I love how you use light to make your selections it's really opened my eyes to being able to make far more detailed and difficult selections of things I might not have attempted before. I'd love to see more photoshop techniques explained you have a great way of putting them across 👍
Enigma Vapes Thanks! I got the idea for the light selection while slaving away with the pen tool. I hope you enjoy our future episodes, thanks for engaging we appreciate it bigly!
I love your tutorials, thanks for taking the time to share your excellent work!
Thanks Brian!
Just great from beginning to end
So glad you enjoyed it, thanks
I'm really enjoying this. I have to shoot some macrons and hope to use some of this for it. I just don't have a strip box or a large defuse panel
Right on John! They are really useful items, although you can substitute them with creative workarounds -- btw I love macarons.
this is a great Job Dude
Thank you I appreciate that
Thanks for sharing this! If you want to add flexibility to your background workflow, I recommend using fill and gradient layers, instead of using the fill and gradient tools. This way you can adjust color, shape and location easily without having to use the separate tools. Also, about your gradient question; once you convert your image from 16-bit to 8-bit (per channel), photoshop will automatically smooth out the gradients, so it doesn't really matter what they look like while still editing.
nice videos, but i would love a little more explanation about the setup and what kind of shoots do you need for blendem them in photoshop?
Ok thanks I will go more in depth next time
I LOVED IT!
Alejandra Reznicek too kind! Thanks so much
Thank you for sharing this
I really like your work :)
Wondering if you could create a subtle pool of light around the base of the bottle and grapes by shining a low output diffused light, perhaps a constant color corrected LED, from below and through the plexiglass…may need to create a circular or oval pattern of the right size using black wrap or some other sort of modifier though not many are available for LEDs. I’m going to try this with both constant and a low power speed lite or small strobe. Normally pools of light created shooting down from above but shooting up from below may be a cool effect. Thoughts ?
That's a really interesting ideas. I like the idea of using organic lighting to create a spot glow.
with the BIG freeze coming our way (as per the weatherman) thought i'd try a it of still life and product photography and i must say it's consumed me totally. i'm totally loving it cos i can take photos any time despite the lousy weather. luckily, i stumbled upon your channel and i must say i'm really enjoying the way you construct the shot step by step and explain everything so clearly. you make everything look so easy. i've learnt some good concepts from your videos. the only thing i'm struggling with is the compositing and masks. no reflection on you. photoshop is my weak point. you're doing a great job. i was wondering if you could make some videos on compositing, masks and other essential techniques for beginners like me. keep up the good work :)
Cheers! I will most likely make a nice long form beginners video
Dustin, Great Videos! Could you share some of the technical sides of this photography, What shutter speed you use most of the time, and if you change, why? What aperture, if change, why?
Are you shooting in a dark room? Thanks.
Great questions. I always shoot at 1/200s - because that is the darkest shutter speed I can use while my flash still syncs (research your own flashes max sync speed). I shoot in the darkest room possible, though my typical settings of f/11 ISO100 1/200 render a black frame when the flash is not firing - which is deal. Sometimes I stop-down to f/13-f/16 when it is vital the edges are really sharp on a deeper item. Thanks!
Learning so much love it!
Awesome, keep going!
I like your work and I wonder if you can do something on chocolate photography
Chocolate, that's a great idea Amer! There is a great behind-the-scenes chocolate set up on our Facebook group: facebook.com/workphlo
learning a lot from this thank you! Question @ 11:44 when you paste white you're retaining the shape of your black object. When I paste white it pastes in the shape of my "crude" lasso. Any help on how you get it to retain the bottle shape and not the lasso tool selection shape.
Thank you!
Thanks for asking Jeff, I hope I understood what you mean. I simply inverted the selection (Ctrl+Shift+i) before pasting. The black shape was already cut out on perfect white, so the result is a seamless layer. Let me know if I misunderstood!
Dustin you rock! I'm learning so much with you.Thank you! Once you have the black bottle on perfect white how do you then get the clipping path? Are you manually tracing the black bottle or is there a quick way to make a selection path from the Bottle outline?
Jeff Shreiner Happy to help! So the perfect silhouette of the bottle IS all you need to mask it. You Can simply copy the whole layer and paste it into your 'layer mask' -- I just used the saved 'clipping path' to save the data in the interim. For more tips on masking my video 'Single Speedlight Product Compositing' will help lots! Cheers and thanks again for watching.
workphlo total mind blow! Thanks for getting back to me. Can't wait to try this technique!!
Color background gives a lot more drama, but completely black background givs more strogness. Its like the colord one is the sweet wine and the black one isn't, its can be a photographic way to tell about the nature of wine)))
Kipp working hard my friend, and hope you will give a lot great ideas
Awesome points, cheers!
How do you manage to get absolutely no shake/motion blur when using the manual shutter release on camera? In this episode, unlike others where you’ve used a wireless remote, the pics are steady and perfect. Always great tutorials!
Perhaps I alligned the exposures digitally but I can not remember. Thanks for watching.
Kart Taylor is one of my favorite product photographers too :)
Great guy!
Definitely the edgy light is great but the soft graded look has more selling value I feel
i havent finished watching it, but i said i was gonna like and comment even if you didnt keep asking for it, so here i am
Thank-you kind sir, please do stay tuned.
thanks for responding to the feedback. it definitely makes your videos feel a bit more professional, at least for me. Great video as always man.
I'm learning a lot from audience feedback. keep it coming please! (-:
"And by bright I mean really dark" you're so funny 😹 I think I like the bold look better but who could resist a good gradation
Hi, I'm really enjoying your videos! I'm somewhat new to photography, and have never worked with lights before. Could you let me know why one would use speedlights over say, always on LED panels? If the lights were always on, you would be able to see how they light the subject no? Or do you just get more light out of a flash?
Thanks!
Great question, a lot of my tutorials are interchangeable using constant lighting, I own an LED panel myself. The benefit of a flash is a brief flash duration, which can freeze motion (see my other classical wine episode). That and, the batteries are very efficient (-: Do you shoot with constant lighting?
Not yet, I'm beginning to build a shopping list though to start setting up a home 'studio' of sorts, tossing up between the two. Thanks for the insight!
Anytime!
Thank you. very helpful.
Thanks! I was hoping this long form wine photography tutorial would help people such as yourself. Have a great day!
you lost the sliver lines on the side of the wine label. Very interesting about the bit depth towards the end. Are you working in 8 or 16 bit?
good job on your videos too!
Yes you are correct, and we are using 16 bit I believe! But I do not fully remember. Thanks for watching
@@workphlo thinking about the banding - I know my graphic designer friend had to buy a top pro monitor because he couldn't see banding in a gradient, and he was doing a 4 color run for a client :-(. I know PixImperfect did a video on 8bit vs 16 bit and banding. thanks! oh. wanted to ask, why you are still using speedlites instead of real studio strobes - just wondering. I can see it maybe with high speed sync, but... I was wondering if you've ever compared switching out with regular studio strobes & if there is any difference lighting wise visually. I am amazed what you and others are doing with speedlites. again, thank you so much
Well done Dustin, I just need to improve my PS skills. The only thing didn't convince me was the silver square around the grape, but is just personal observation, keep posting, here we still learning. :D
Thanks Nauhan (-: -- would you possibly elaborate?
Great tutorial Dustin! Have you tried to use a remote for your camera before? I noticed you often walk to your camera and some shots are a little bit offset from each other from you physically pressing the button, and was wondering if a cable release or an IR remote would be beneficial.
Almost always use a remote! Not sure why I didn't here, think it was MIA. Thanks for checking out the tutorial.
Nice work! Do you do anything to kill reflective content from your studio?
Thanks! The small white studio makes it very subject to showing up in reflections -- trying to control the spill as much as possible! (-:
Glad you enjoy!
Thank you for this video, going fast and need to come back and practice to really catch everything but as I like photographing wine, it is not a problem :-)
Hey man, do you have links to the clamps you are using?
So I use 2 kinds, a bag of 10 black clamps which are heavy duty and produced by Neewer (sorry can't get the link at the moment, order on Canada amazon though) and a pack of 2 -- same clamps but with light stand attachments for the large diffusion material I use. Best of luck!
Another excellent video. Thanks for making these. Have you considered maybe going back to the basics, doing a beginner's photoshop/lightroom tutorial?
That's a great idea, thanks Ben, stay tuned.
Thank you! This was really helpful!
No problemo
Yes boom-a-fi ,two thumps up!
Haha glad you liked that, take care my friend!
Hello Dustin, thanks for your superb tutos! :-)
I want to ask how you did it with the black plexy surface from amazon, because you have linked us a transparency glass instead of black? Did you use this or a black?
Did you have another link or a hint how you make it shine black?
Thanks and regards Guido
Hey there! I used transparent plexiglass here, and linked the black plexiglass I use 95% of the time, in the description. You can also get small sheets of clear plexiglas -- which I use in our white wine tutorial, give it a look as well! (-:
Hey Dustin, sorry but you did it in the other way, for German Amazon you linked the transparency Version and i cannot find the black one that you use all the time!
Did you have a correct link for me? Thanks so much! :-)
Do you have a link for that plate you attach to your lightstand?
Actually it is custom made! I want to sell them now. lol
awesome!
Thanks MIKE
Well done! You might be able to save a bit of walking if you use the 560TX to adjust the power on the 560IV remotely, rather than walking around to the flash.
I'm glad someone finally commented this, thanks Ryan!
good video. I wonder if you could not just use pen tool for making selection of bottle and grapes much faster than taking extra pictures and messing with layers masks and combining them all together only to make final selection.
Usually one shot back-lit suffices, though even when some tweaking is needed I seriously prefer letting light determine my selection when possible! Thanks for watching, Milan.
I used the technique and it worked fine, but I had difficulty showing the black color of a bottle. The bottle reflected everything in the room. How can a bottle become black or the color of wine as it is in reality? I used white dispersion, or what is called transparencies, and its reflection appeared to me in a blurry white color. I really want you to help me. How is it possible to show the color of the bottle if it tends to be black without any reflection on it?
Your videos are awesome! Here's a like, a comment and a subscribe!
Ryan Roarty thank you good sir!!
Thank you! I've recently become interested in wine and spirit photography due to the COVID situation as a way to generate income for my studio.
It's a great genre
Tip for your bending problem. Apply a bit of monogrammatic noise on there. Just a pinch. See what happens ;-)
David Provoost True that! Thank you good sir
Hi! ThE best solution to banding in this case is to apply noise to the gradient layer. Please have a try and let me know ;) BTW i uploaded my first product photo to the facebook group! Thank you for all you teach us!!!
Bless you Sergio! 🔥
To fix the gradient banding, change the image to 16 bits/channel before you start editing and when you've finished all of your edits, revert back to 8 bits/channel and save the PSD then :) This will give you super smooth gradient transition, but not make the file size too big.
Great point, thanks.
Would be great if you could do a video on just how to create the layer mask & put this onto a backgound, keeping it real simple and slow, using menus rather than keyboard shortcuts. Your method looks so powerful, but far to complex for some of us to follow. Thanks.
Thank-you, I will consider doing a long-form of this method. Watch slowly and re-watch when you have time, it's really just a handful of shortcuts I use and name them all outloud!
Hi Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. Love your channel as it gives ideas for things we can do at home without the need for a studio. Have re-watched but your photoshop knowledge is way to advanced for me to follow, looks like some of the other viewers struggle also. Would love some simpler vids to follow or maybe something like this vid broken down into separate units, setup, lighting, layer mask, final editing etc, but no keyboard shortcuts please, they are only shortcuts if you know what they mean :o) Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, will keep liking & watching to help bump you up the youtube list.
Nige T Thank you! I appreciate the feedback. :)
Hi Dustin, What size is the softbox that you placed behind the bottle to get the selection outline. I see a link for a 120x30 but the one you used appeared to be bigger than that. Can you please confirm the size?
Hey Chris! The Canadian link is the exact model I used -- by a brand called LA Softbox (only choice pretty much in Canada). I will have to get back to you with a confirmation of the width, I just picked up a smaller softbox as well -- I usually take whatever one is prime certified with a "often bought with" speedlight adapter.
workphlo Thanks Dustin, I will take a look at the Canadian link but if you confirm the size for definite that would be great. Also could you confirm the size of the Octabox in the Clinique Lipstick video that would be great. Just having a rewatch of all your videos for the third time 😍
Sorry I let you down on the release date yesterday, new video will be up shortly! The octabox is 100% a 120cm octabox -- again I bought the inexpensive brand umbrella style, prime certified. Actually got it for $39.99 though haven't seen it for that good of price. Newwer and other 3rd party brands will have one for a decent price -- I highly recommend getting this... great piece of equipment for portraits and products. I also got a tri-mount umbrella adapter that allows me to place multiple Speedlights for more "juice".
Hi, thanks for the reply. No worries about the upload, I'm sure it will be worth waiting for. With regards to the stripbox, if it is the 18 x 48 inch one that works out at 45cm x 122cm in the UK. The closest we have over here is 30cm x 120cm of which I already have 2 of and the next closest is 40cm x 200cm which is very tall. A 40cm or 50cm x 120cm would have been perfect. I may have to get a 40cm x 200cm just to give me the extra width although I will play with the 30cm ones first. The ones I have are made by a company called Phot-R.com and seem really good alsol.
Amazing
The colour behind the bottle looks like Magenta to me or a colour called Amaranth Purple :)
Beautiful! I love colour names.
Loved the tutorial, but the selection part it's too much work for nothing. Could have used channel mode and levels to speed up the process. Anyways thank you for this tutorial, helped A LOT, in particular the shooting process
Agreed, thanks!
If your brush is set to overlay mode, painting black on anything 100% white won't modify it, and it will blacken every other pixel values. Of course the reverse is true, painting white will only affect non 100% black pixels.
your redish dark color is called "bordeau" :) like the City but also like the color of this old english red :)
Dustin, what's a "specular highlight?" I notice you use that term often, and the highlights it describes sometimes seem to have nothing in common for me to wrap my brain around.
Hi Lynda! I am referring to the direct highlights of the lighting on the bottle. Hope this video helped you! (-:
Nice work, Im not as skilled in PS as you are so you kind of lose me by going so fast in post processing. But I like what you do.
Hey fair enough! Thanks for the feedback.
u said when u apply the mask the world is ours. i didnt geta the apply pary.how did u isolate the bottle and grapes by a amask
Hey Dustin, can you use deodorant to spray one of your bottles and see how it works?😀Curious
That's a fun idea! We will do an episode on modifying products like this
16 bit will work too
Appreciated.
Spiceberry!
It's a mix between Spiceberry and Gooseberry, stay tuned for my next episode tackling glassware photography on white!
man... have you ever shot for an ad agency? you've got some serious learning to do ))
without discussing mistakes with the lighting the product, I just want to make sure that everyone watching this understands that creating this shot without photoshop literally takes 10 minutes, including the background gradient. if using real studio lights and a grid is not an option, it is still doable with speedlights.
The applications of having a bottle selection go farther than this example, we just put a quick gradient in the back. Would love to see your shots, Irakly -- mind linking your portfolio?
Thank you for your explanation on utilities of bottle selections. I started with Photoshop 2.0.
I haven't done product photography since 2011. So, nothing new here.
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My OCD kicked in hard watching this. Lol! I keep wanting to rotate the bottle to cheat the label to the right. Your lighting causes the label to look off center to my eyes.
Haha that is funny Johnny, you're right I see what you meant.
Edit in 32 bit and it will stop the banding
Thanks pal!
Pen tool, looks easier than your technique.
Nice tutorial.
Fair enough, I've got this thing for the polygonal lasso...
u need extra money for that "pen tool" probably Wacom Tablet starts at $100-$500 so for the starter; that's a big Amount. U must be a RICH BOY Pogolas, see? the guys just used Speedlight for the lighting setup, meaning this kind of video encouraging those BEGINNERS?, He just trying to show how POWERFUL PHOTOSHOP is?, not what his equipment; common sense DUDE???...U MUST BE WATCHING A DIFFERENT CHANNEL. . . U MUST BE WATCHING "WHAT IS UR GADGETS", tell you what?, even Popular and well-known Photographers in the US and Europe can't afford to buy a HASSELBLAD CAMERA..........I own Canon 5DM4 and 1DxM2 body, and EF 16-35mm f/2.8L Ver3, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L Ver2, and EF 70-200mm f/2.8L Ver3, and Sony A73, A7R3, A7R4, and A7S2 and Solid FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS,, FE 50mm f/2.8 Macro, FE 16-35GM, FE 24-70GM, FE 70-200GM, but still I can't afford to buy HasselBlad Camera for no reason at all
The method you use for creating masks is very slow and convoluted when compared to proper lighting methods. You are making a lot of work for yourself when the simple use of black cards and control of lighting rations will do all the work for you.
I'll race you, your pen tool vs. my back-lit mask? ;)
Im not talking about the pen tool, Im talking about correct lighting techniques. Firstly you need to make the difference between your front light source and your back light source 1 1/2 stops. Secondly you use black cards to help create a perfect silhouette around the subject. This all takes less than 1 minute. Once done correctly no need for the pen tool.
We cover all of that on our channel! Thank-you for stopping by.
WTF is that Windows 7 honk? Literally never heard that in my life. Is that a PS specific thing?
I think you should listen to your voice at 0.5, it sound like me after 2 grams of weed
Too funny
Obligatory ranking comment!
regarding bending check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/Y_zg2Nd333I/v-deo.html
Interesting find!
rank better