1/13/2016

Guidelines For A Clothing Photographer

By Shirley Williams


Photography is not as easy as most people think. For a person to emerge as a skilled clothing photographer, they need to pay key attention to some basic tips. Working out, to come up with the best, exquisite and superb images is the main objective of any photographer. To make this accomplishment, the photographer needs to equip themselves with tips and knowledge on how to undertake such a course. The following are some of these essential tips.

In this case, you need to make sure that the environment in which the photograph capturing session is taking place, has suitable and enough lighting. This determines the quality of images captured. Sufficient lighting will make it possible to capture photos without noise or grain as termed in the field. Such images will have appropriate sharpness. To achieve ample lighting you can either rent lighting equipment or use the natural light in a setting whereby you have a large window and a reflective panel.

On the same, you have to make sure that the camera settings are properly done. Even with the best quality of the camera and excellent expertise of the professional, it calls for the right settings on your equipment to get impeccable images. In this case, ensure that the camera is configured correctly by investing in some knowledge about ISO, aperture and white balance. The ISO settings should not be higher than 600-640 otherwise; the images quality will be compromised.

Additionally, the aperture settings must be higher. This is because, the higher the aperture the more facets of images are captured. The camera aperture should be set at f-11 or more to capture excellent images. In the same vein, the white balance must be set in regard of the lighting; however, you can set it to be auto.

Moreover, as seasoned photographer you need to convert your images in web-ready color space profile. The color space profile include; adobe RGB, CMYK and SRGB. In the event that your images are not edited to appropriate color space profile, they will not appear consistently in various screens, browsers and sites used to view them. This conversion should be done after working through the images to make them appealing and awesome. It is advisable to convert them to SRGB which can be used across all the platforms without distorting and maintaining the value of your images.

The images must be edited meticulously. This can be achieved by making sure cropping, background, alignment and color improves the value of the image. For alignment, all the products of your images should be of the same size. Also, the angles, edges, and corners should be organized and arranged in relation to one another.

Cropping on the products of the image, should be done identically with the view of improving its quality. More importantly, you need to crop images in respect to the platform you are going to upload them. This way, you ensure proper dimensions that fit the specific platform.

Come up with a consistent background of the images. You want your image to have similar value no matter the platform the viewer is using to view it. To avoid discrepancies, you can opt for white or light grey background in all images. Since some shades of colors cannot be captured by the camera, it is advisable to use photoshop tool edit a few features and sustain the quality of color of the images.




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