In my continued pursuit of photography aimed at shooting food shots for my wife’s upcoming book, I got a new toy to make very sexy shots. It’s a photographing tent made of a shiny, translucent plastic. Very shui. It’s great for any kind of small item, table top work.
It’s similar to a tabletop, seamless photo cube I purchased late last year for photographing a sample of my father-in-law’s tastevin collection. A tastevin is a small, very shallow silver cup or saucer traditionally used by winemakers and sommeliers when judging the maturity and taste of a wine. After cleaning up the images and composing them in Photoshop and Apple Aperture, the final pages were brought into a program called BookMaker and then uploaded to MyPublisher.com. They then printed the book which we gave to my father-in-law as a Christmas present. As nice as the pages look on the computer it’s amazing how great it looks when it’s on the printed page. It’s real, it’s physical, it looks wonderfully professional. All this stuff is especially fun right now that there isn’t much work in town. It helps keep “my technical chops” up to snuff.
20:15, 2008/01/22Jay /
Very 2.0…