Blaine Westropp | Practice makes perfect. @BlaineWestropp1 | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
For some reason I found myself capturing this shoe in my bathroom today. Using 2 tube lights, some dental floss, and past experiences from shooting products in studios, I saw some good potential. I then moved on to the living room, during the day, and found that the look wasn’t really there, but could be fixed up nicely in post. I used davinci resolve for the color grade where I went for more of a film look, with film emulation, grain, a little bit of halation, etc. dirtied it up a bit. I used after effects for the background removal, and wire removal. Lastly I went into a larger room, and blocked out all of the light and landed on the final look. Getting a nice cinematic look with products can be tricky, but with some finesse you can land on a nice look, even in your bathroom. A lot of the magic happens in post production. This is an at home test. For a real shoot I would light the background with 2 brighter lights, some HMIs, 10ks if we were shooting tungsten, or some sky panels or some aputure 1200ds. Anything big and bright. I would then use strip banks on the shoe, with a couple other lights to create some pings of light on the shoe. Having v flats and floppies is also important.
Music from Audiio, check them out they have a lot of cool new features: audiio.com/blainewestropp
My original plan was to show the post production process but this video took too long, so I gave up and shipped it. Let me know if you have any questions and join the discord: discord.gg/eTVkgyawxW
Footage shot on the Arri Alexa mini LF and a couple anamorphic lenses.
For some reason I found myself capturing this shoe in my bathroom today. Using 2 tube lights, some dental floss, and past experiences from shooting products in studios, I saw some good potential. I then moved on to the living room, during the day, and found that the look wasn’t really there, but could be fixed up nicely in post. I used davinci resolve for the color grade where I went for more of a film look, with film emulation, grain, a little bit of halation, etc. dirtied it up a bit. I used after effects for the background removal, and wire removal. Lastly I went into a larger room, and blocked out all of the light and landed on the final look. Getting a nice cinematic look with products can be tricky, but with some finesse you can land on a nice look, even in your bathroom. A lot of the magic happens in post production. This is an at home test. For a real shoot I would light the background with 2 brighter lights, some HMIs, 10ks if we were shooting tungsten, or some sky panels or some aputure 1200ds. Anything big and bright. I would then use strip banks on the shoe, with a couple other lights to create some pings of light on the shoe. Having v flats and floppies is also important.
Music from Audiio, check them out they have a lot of cool new features: audiio.com/blainewestropp
My original plan was to show the post production process but this video took too long, so I gave up and shipped it. Let me know if you have any questions and join the discord: discord.gg/eTVkgyawxW
Footage shot on the Arri Alexa mini LF and a couple anamorphic lenses.
