While reflective products take a lot of time to set-up the result is worth it. These very small hand tools have a beautiful brushed and reflective finish. Multiple soft boxes with controllable Aperture lights combined with light modifiers to bounce and direct the light retained the beauty of the finish minus the hotspots. Canon’s EF100mm f/2.8 Macro IS USM lens captures the detail and allows aperture to control the bokeh in the foreground and background.
This industrial photography project took two onsite sessions, and large acrylic products were also shot onsite using a white background, multiple soft boxes and light modifiers and shot with the Canon 24-70mm lens. The small precision hand tools were shot inhouse on white. The bokeh “hero shots” for the small tools were shot inhouse using a Canon EF100mm Macro IS USM Lens.
Reflective surfaces like acrylic and stainless steel require a lot of prep and set-up. Products must be thoroughly clean of fingers, dust and dirt.
The brushed stainless-steel finish had a beautiful warmth.
One cabinet’s interior (below) is stainless steel. The angle was the focal point for the customer, controlling the light made this shot beautiful.
The Hero Shots (ie bokeh) time for set-up is with both lighting due to the reflective surfaces and arranging the products for balance and visually attraction.
Once again, the brushed stainless steel required additional lighting. Due to the number of tools creating the depth of the bokeh needed extra time.
These micro tools are less than 3 inches each.
