Hey guys
I need some advice/info on doing product shots in 3d. Basically its about a 1000 packshots for a web catalog that has the option to view the product in a rotating 3d.(It will probably just be a gif sequence)
Anyone ever done this or know how the quickest way is to do such shots?
Try some searches for stereoscopy rather than 3d.
Here might be a start if nobody at 12 has done it: http://www.stereoscopy.com/
That's strange, cuz I _know _I responded to this.
I don't think there's any way around taking the pictures.
Turntable?
It might actually be easier/cheaper to do them all in 3D rather than photograph them, depending on the shapes, whether you have the artwork, etc.
I had a discussion awhile back with someone from the San Jose, CA area who had contracts to do such product photography for regional auto dealers who used these type of ads for their dealership websites....
of course, they were doing cars... all sorts of scale issues along with absolute control of reflection and lighting, but much the same issues regarding concept
from my own perspective—as someone who does product photography and masking as a very large part of my work—1000 products is going to be quite an undertaking... even for straight-on or single-view images.
if I were to imaging doing such a thing—well, perhaps I cannot even imagine true 3D—as a multi-view gif sequence as you implied... one would surely need to know the range of the product line, size and reflectivity of the surface are questions which come to mind...
anyhow, I would consider setting up a booth with multiple cameras, lighting and a jig for holding product uniformly shoot teahered so you can view the shots on a computer as they are taken... with a thousand products and multiple shots, you certainly don't want to save anyhting other than 'keepers'
lemme know if you need someone to work on masking images
It's been possible to do with flash for many years. I saw a demo 3D product display that used flash5 back then. The bloke who created it was a regular participant of the local FUG (flash users group) and a lecturer. Sometime after that I saw a magazine article on how to create something similar. It involved taking photo's of the item on all 3 planes and then "stitching them together with an app but I have no idea what it was called anymore. It would probably be similar to Walt's examples.
I've figured it out. ITs a kind of turn table that "clicks" every 5 degrees or so, then you just have one camera that takes the shots (need a fixed light of course). Pretty easy actually, just lots of work.
Originally posted by: n-gen.dk Pretty easy actually, just lots of work.
one could say that about lots of things. hm?
and you are the one who knows your products
unfortunately, I've never yet had more than just a couple of products that would fit onto the same turntable or jig... recently, I had 13 CCTV lenses in the same photoshoot with the same setup—for me, that was a record for most similar products in one shoot.
of the thousand[s] of product shots I have taken, 98% or more required their own individually McGuyver'd setup. that and lighting changes are where 90% of the work has always been for me
in comparasin, I can only imagine how wonderful it would be to do one lighting setup with one jig and turntable to shoot 1000 pair of shoes
Dude - that's _72,000 _photos. I mean, I'm sure you know that, but still ...
72,000. At 5 seconds per shot, that's 100 hours.
Just sayin'...
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Originally posted by: mclarkson Dude - that's _72,000 _photos. I mean, I'm sure you know that, but still ...
72,000. At 5 seconds per shot, that's 100 hours.
Just sayin'...
Well it's not me thats going to do it. I've got uhh... relations with a pack shot company.
just shoot it with a pair of cameras similar to the distances of your own pair of eyes. then composite it and see how 3d it gets.