Optional tasks: if you are satisfied with the results of your work, why not take a nice picture of it? And if you do, be sure to share it in the Dremelsaurus build group! There’s a photos section; and if you have a lot of shots, you can create an album for them.
1. Project photography
Product photography is really fun and interesting. We are planning a skills tutorial for this topic in the future, if you are interested, please check out the preview and upvote it! For the moment though, I’ll just briefly outline how I took shots of my completed dino tool holder.
Note: if you don’t have the time or inclination for this type of setup, just use your phone to take a shot of your project, and share in the Dremelsaurus build group!
This is a clean and tidy project photography kit
Collapsible light box
Often I’ll just grab an in-situ snap with my phone, which can sometimes be cropped and touched up to be good enough. But when I want a nice shot, I set up my Foldio3 collapsible lightbox. It has LED light strips built in, and magnetic assembly, and a nice carrying box. It can be set up in literally two mins or less, and takes about two feet of desk space. The Foldio3 lightbox comes with two backdrops, a black and a white one. The white one is good for Amazon-style product shots, and the black one is nice for fine-art style shots.
Light fill bars
For good illumination, I also fill in the lighting with Foldio light bars, which is an add-on you can buy for the lightbox. They plug into the same dimmer controller and can be controlled separately, for different lighting effects.
Colored backdrops
If you buy the small Foldio box, which is super convenient but tricky for larger projects, it also comes with grey and green backdrops. The green backdrop is particularly interesting, because then you can do chromakey, meaning drop out the background and sub in an image, for fancy effects. Although, for still photography, a neutral background is better, as in the shot below you can see that the green background shows in the highlights on the subject, which is ugly. For Photoshopping, try gray background instead.
Smooth panning mini tripod
Canon M50 camera
I like my Canon M50 camera because it comes with a decent lens. And, if we buy a long USB cable, we can use their PC software to set up, preview, focus and shoot remotely, on a big screen! So we can make sure everything’s perfect every time: no more frustrating reshoots.
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Project photography
This tutorial will cover a complete compact professional project/product photography station, for stellar documentation of your creative work!
2. Sharing
Why take a nice shot of a nice build, if you don’t share it? At the very minimum, head on over to this build’s support group and post your shot in the feed, where it will automatically end up also in the group’s photo collection.
Make your own photo album
If you end up with a bunch of shots you like, you can make yourself an album. Head over to the Dremelsaurus build group, click on the Albums tab, then click Create Album. Give it a nice title, and drop in photos. The only tricky part is, you can only upload ten images at a time. For more images, just do multiple uploads of ten at a time or less. Also tricky: don’t click away till all photos are confirmed uploaded, or you will have to do it all over again and be more patent the second time 🙂
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