Photographing White Garments - Freelance UK Forums

Brad0301 · 05-14-2009, 09:33 AM

Hi

I am new to this forum so hoping for some help, we are currently having problems photographing white garments for our website and was hoping for some tips on how best to approach it. Seem to keep getting shadows over the garments or they are coming out really grey and dark.

Thanks

brendan_howard · 01-19-2010, 12:02 PM

Are you sure they are not just underexposed? Maybe you just need to increase your exposure compensation.

adamcoupe · 02-17-2010, 09:17 AM

Hi

In camera metering systems are often overwhelmed by situations such as this which is similar to the old 'snowman in a snow scene' chestnut. The metering system is designed to meter a mixture of mid tones rather than extreme white tones and therefore overcompensates by underexposing the images. Sounds like this has happened on your product images. A couple of suggestions, use a contrasting background colour or tone to help the garments stand out, use additional lighting to add definition to the garments and light the background separately so that the garment stands out from it and experiment with your exposure compensation settings on camera by adding exposure time so that your images have sufficient light and are correctly exposed.

Adam
Commercial Photography - Portfolio - Adam Coupe Photography

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Brad0301 New Poster Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 1	Photographing White Garments Hi I am new to this forum so hoping for some help, we are currently having problems photographing white garments for our website and was hoping for some tips on how best to approach it. Seem to keep getting shadows over the garments or they are coming out really grey and dark. Thanks

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01-19-2010, 12:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
brendan_howard New Poster Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 3	Are you sure they are not just underexposed? Maybe you just need to increase your exposure compensation.

02-17-2010, 09:17 AM	#3 (permalink)
adamcoupe New Poster Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 8	Hi In camera metering systems are often overwhelmed by situations such as this which is similar to the old 'snowman in a snow scene' chestnut. The metering system is designed to meter a mixture of mid tones rather than extreme white tones and therefore overcompensates by underexposing the images. Sounds like this has happened on your product images. A couple of suggestions, use a contrasting background colour or tone to help the garments stand out, use additional lighting to add definition to the garments and light the background separately so that the garment stands out from it and experiment with your exposure compensation settings on camera by adding exposure time so that your images have sufficient light and are correctly exposed. Adam Commercial Photography - Portfolio - Adam Coupe Photography