Someone asked me that where I take product photos and where I buy those little accessories for the decorators.
So, I was wondering how I do that? (thank you for your challenging questions!)
Here are the answers and would like to provide a small tip for your creating process of decoration goods.
First of all,
1. I don't have the studio, unfortunately. Take product photos at home with natural lights.
2. I don't buy accessories or small goods for the decoration of photos. But I make them by myself.
Today, I am going to talk about #2. (I have some ideas of instructing how to take photos at home for your food or any objects you would like to take. It will be covered sometime if there is a request for it.)
Let's get started.
So, I would say that my creating process of decorations comes from those three concepts.
Concept 1: 'Keep them alive.'
Concept 2: 'Make it re-born.'
Concept 3: 'De-Construct and construct.'
Too subjective? Let me make the concepts objective.
Concept 1: 'Keep them alive.'
I've been a big fan of flowers and plants at such a young age. So I buy flowers, but also I have them in planters. If they are blooming 110%, I take them out and leave them under the AC and make it dried flowers. So then, I keep them in a jar or a box. Or sometimes I pick them up on the street. (I seriously do.) and take them home.
Yes, that simple.... so not sure if this could be a tip. But what I want to roll out here is that all small goods you can buy at a rustic antique shop or boutiques can be created merely by your self without efforts.
Because of its disposition of natures, they die if they live 120%. So before it happens, keep them alive as dried flowers.
However, if you have a voice in your mind now, "well, can I just buy a bunch of flowers from the store? " Yes, you can. If your flowers nicely dressed up by a florist, keep it in shape and make it dried flowers as the same process above. You can use it as the home decorator.
Those dried flowers are going to be antique rusty colors when you shoot. It is going to be perfectly matching with the trendy object or something lively appearance.
As I wrote in the previous post, those decoration goods drastically change your photo look and give essence to the scene right away.
Please try them out for your next shooting!
In the next post, I will cover the concept 2: 'Make it re-born.'
Thank you so much for reading, and if you have any questions, please email me. : )