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

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...

想像一下，不需要擁有一個充滿昂貴設備和大型閃光燈的攝影棚，就能夠拍攝出令人驚艷、專業的產品照片。這本書教授如何建立自己的桌面攝影棚的所有步驟。

在桌面攝影棚中，價格合理的小型閃光燈提供了多種創意照明選項；適當的照明和背景，以及對相機功能的巧妙運用是獲得完美影像的關鍵。

作者Cyrill Harnischmacher引導讀者探索各種曝光和照明技巧，並介紹如何使用小型閃光燈獲得出色的效果。無論您希望拍攝用於印刷或網絡的產品圖像，還是想改善個人照片，本書將為您提供一切所需的知識，以獲得出色的成果。

主題包括：
- 照明設置；
- 反射板、擴散器和配件；
- 軟箱和雨傘；
- 閃光燈；
- 結合長曝光和手電筒；
- 多閃光燈曝光；
- 構圖和佈置；
- 創建背景；
- 產品攝影；
- 煙霧、霧氣和特殊效果；
- 食物攝影等等...