Tabletop Photography Fundamentals

You don’t need a studio to take professional-grade product and still life photographs! All you need is a simple tabletop lighting setup. In this course, award-winning food photographer Andrew Scrivani will show you how to create and tailor your own table top lighting setup — on any budget. Whether you’re a beginning photographer looking to master lighting or a professional photographer eager to expand your services, this course will give you a candid, comprehensive playbook for tabletop lighting.

Tabletop photography transforms a single surface into a small-scale studio. Andrew, a regular contributor to The New York Times, will show you how to create and then optimize your lighting setup for your needs — using everything from the latest gear to household items. Andrew will cover metering and bounce cards, working with strobes and soft boxes, LED lighting, and tips for shooting glassware and other tricky products.

By the end of this course, you will know how to set up and adjust your very own tabletop studio — and how to use that small-scale studio to expand your services, improve your photography, and market your business.

• Course Overview
• Daylight for Product Photography
• Daylight Examples
• Shoot: Daylight Lighting - Tote Bag
• Shoot: Daylight Lighting - Tea Towel
• Shoot: Daylight and Augmented Daylight
• Free Preview: No Budget DIY Tools
• Shoot: No Budget Set-up
• Shoot: Black Plexi - Headphone Experiments
• Shoot: Experiments Continued
• Shoot: Light Tent - Jewelry
• Shoot: Light Tent - Creative Backdrops
• Shoot: Jewelry Experiments
• Equipment Overview
• Shoot: Art Work Basics
• Shoot: Single Strobe - Cheese Grater
• Shoot: Single Strobe - Round Grater
• Shoot: 2 Lights - Round Grater
• Shoot: Hot Lights - Glass Vase
• Shoot: Hot Lights - Crystal Glasses
• Shoot: Single Light - Clear Objects
• Shoot: Camera Bag - Stills
• Shoot: Camera Bag - Video
• Shoot: Knife - Stills and Video
• Shoot: Styling a Cookbook
• Shoot: Styling a Cookbook Continued
• Shoot: Low End Set-up for Jewelry
• Shoot: Low End Set-up for Jewelry Continued
• Shoot: Textiles - Baby Clothes
• Shoot: Textiles - Hankies
• Shoot: Hankies - Vertical
• Shoot: Group One
• Shoot: Group Two