Featured Photos Weekly Challenge – Product Photography 2

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Instagram Challenge

This Week’s Challenge: #PRTV_product2

This week something you could do inside or go out and capture with product photography. A bit simpler with the holidays coming up but it's a fun challenge and you can hopefully learn from it to make a few bucks doing photos locally.Next Two Week Challenge: #PRTV_holiday2 Find out more about upcoming challenges and past winners at photorec.tv/prtv.You can follow Photorec.TV on Instagram at @Photorec.tv and the team:

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Toby’s Features:

Fully committed to the shot with the water- it’s a neat take that makes me think of summer and beer - perfect. I may suggest to dial back the water just a bit and the buried can looks a little dented but all around good shot!

@photorec.tv #prtv_product2

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Solid classic holiday chocolate shot though I would have liked to see one of them out of the wrapper.

The setting so nicely compliments the strap design - I’d expect her to have some solid product work, Heather sells these straps - see more at http://amzn.to/2BduEx8

Roy’s Features:

Really nice bokeh and it forces the focus on your bracelet with the charm that stands out.

A great pick by Heather with her own straps, which you can check out at http://amzn.to/2BduEx8. Using the concrete to lead the eye works for this and lets the strap pop against the muted colors.

You can’t beat shooting in Belize for some great product shots and having the tail loop over worked nicely.

Featured Photos Weekly Challenge – Complementary Colors

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Instagram Challenge

This Week’s Challenge: #PRTV_complementarycolors

This week was a bit more challenging in that you had to follow a color scheme. Using complementary colors in your photos can make for a strong image. We had some great photos this week, and some that didn’t quite get the colors right, but it’s great to see all the nice attempts at focusing on color. Learn more about the color wheel by trying it out at https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/Next Week’s Challenge: #PRTV_product2Find out more about upcoming challenges and past winners at photorec.tv/prtv.You can follow Photorec.TV on Instagram at @Photorec.tv and the team:

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Toby’s Features:

Orange and blue - love the abstract but bright details in the soap bubbles.

Love the framing with that red! 

It's an interesting color contrast between the subject and background

#prtv_complementarycolors

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Roy’s Features:

A great shot with these berries, the red really pops in front of the green background.

Blue hour makes for some really nice complementary color with the sunset fading off.

Using some gels for a self-portrait really works well for this challenge. 

Instagram Winners - Product

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Continuing on our last challenge of flash photography a product Instagram challenge this week really narrows the field. It was up to you which product to shoot but each presents their own challenges in getting a photo to look just right. Especially considering in a lot of tabletop setups you need lighting equipment to get the product lit how you’d like for the shot. There were some nice entries this week from traditional tabletop setups to larger outdoor shots that really showed off some great camera skills. One of the harder challenges to shoot for next week, you'll be shooting white as a color challenge. White can be tricky as any exposure to high and you’ll blow out a photo. Going too low as well ends up with dull colors and a gray photo. Just like in the shooting red article you will have to keep a keen eye on your histogram. To enter post your photos on Instagram before noon next Friday with the tags #PRTV and #PRTV_white.

You can follow Photorec.TV on Instagram at @Photorec.tv

And the team!Toby – @Photorectoby Roy – @RoyMcKeeIII Rose -  @Randomcreativeart

Toby’s Winner:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPo-yEVD1oO/Frame filling perfectly lit goodness.  Only critique - the fried fish in the bottom is just ever so slightly out of focus and now I am hungry!!

Toby’s Honorable Mentions:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPqbndhBDWc/The lighting here is superb and showcases the guitar beautifully.https://www.instagram.com/p/BPtl_ecA_36/Nice location and the converging clouds really help to lead the viewer to the snowmobile.   I would crop in a little tighter and remove the trail stakes in the background.

Roy’s Winner:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPo-yEVD1oO/Seemingly chaotic scenes can be some of the best for food. Having plates slightly cropped off help fill the frame nicely and give the photo depth. As Toby said the fish is a bit soft but considering the angle and depth of field it still worked out nicely.

Roy’s Honorable Mentions:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPwREZQlvFt/This works great as a food shot using brightly colored spices. Considering they are reflective going with a smaller depth of field played nicely with the highlights. Guessing these are copper but you’ve got an off orange reflection to your left I’d try to tone down with a hue/saturation layer in photoshop. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPtbSU8BqdN/Not a big surprise to see our entrepreneur of the group Heather putting up her nice camera straps. A more traditional product shot you used a reflective surface to get that great reflection working down the photo but also included a bit of fill light.

Lightroom Series - For Beginners

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Lightroom Episode 1 - 4Episodes  1 & 2 Get you started with Lightroom - explaining how Lightroom works, where to store your photos to stay organized and in episode 2 Christina Bernales, professional wedding photographer gives you the knowledge to master editing your photos. These two episodes provide 2+ hours of instruction and episode 2 includes 24 presets to make editing your photos painless.Reviews on Episodes 1 & 2Very good start to lightroom if you have never used it before. If you do use it the tips in this lesson will still help you keep your photo library organized. Most other lightroom videos are much more expensive. For the price of this complete series many other places would charge 10 tines as much. Michael Ricci – This video is PERFECT for the Lightroom novice such as me to help bring my pictures to the next level. I think Christina has done an excellent job explaining and demonstrating the numerous Lightroom features in this video !! I also definitely appreciate the added bonus of the presets and keyboard shortcut templates ! Thank you EXCELLENT video.Rich –  Would you like access to all of these videos for just $3/mo?[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][product sku="lightroomEP1Setup"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][product sku="lightroomEP2EditingBasics"][/vc_column][/vc_row]Episodes  3 & 4 take your editing to the next level and provide the tool to be a power user of Lightroom - make the program do the work for you, producing beautifully edited photos on import and make use of collections and other tools in Lightroom to work smarter, not harder.Reviews on Episodes 3 & 4If you are a seasoned professional or a beginner you can take something useful away from this course. I highly recommend this series.William Stone  – Mar 5, 2015Would you like access to all of these videos for just $3/mo?[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][product sku="lightroomEP3IntBasics"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][product sku="lightroomEP4PwrTools"][/vc_column][/vc_row]