Which is more important, camera or lighting, for shooting products?

31 Jan Which is more important, camera or lighting, for shooting products?

Tie-dye DIY photography

Which is more important, camera or lighting, for shooting products?

What is more important than the camera is the light.

If you have a limited budget, it is recommended to focus on lighting rather than camera lenses (with lighting, you can take excellent product photos even with ordinary lenses).

Flash is now the mainstream equipment of product photography.

Originally photography in the internal training and planning of lighting programs, but also focus on the recommendation of flash. Compared with other types of light, the color temperature of the flash is more constant and accurate. Because the discharge time is very short (flash has been completed in a very short moment, providing enough light), it can not be disturbed by external light to ensure that all pictures will not be discolored.

If you are shooting in the living room at home, there are window lights, ceiling chandeliers, fluorescent lights, they all belong to stray light, each light has its own “color” (color temperature). At this time, if you shoot with a flash, most of the time, the parameter will be set to the aperture fmax 16, 1max 125 seconds. With such an exposure combination, these stray lights are hardly recorded in the picture.

Flash is divided into ordinary flash and high-speed flash, high-speed flash can easily capture the splash picture. Of course, the price is also more expensive.