PHOTOSHOP or PHOTOSHOOT??
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- jharbort
my boss seems to think everyone in the furniture industry uses photoshop to place in their furniture instead of setting up an actual photoshoot.
I can tell some of these have been messed with (look whats out the window :0 ).. but some look like a photographer set up the furniture in a room and shot it.
http://www.bigtreebigsleep.com/c…
http://www.bigtreebigsleep.com/b…
http://www.bigtreebigsleep.com/H…
we already have our photos of our furniture with a white backdrop.. and i could probably place them in on a stock living room shot and make em' look ok ... but i refuse to believe a lot of the shit our there isn't actually set up in a showroom
any ideas, tips,?
ThAnks
- material-10
looks like PHOTOSHIT
- jharbort0
nicely done.. agreed
- OSFA0
#2 specially looks horrible. Photoshoots are great but pricey, but if they have the budget for it, convince them it looks a lot better and natural. There are some good PS samples too tho.
- Gucci0
most SERIOUS companies know you can't get the same feeling out of a photoshopped image. photoshoots make the product look/feel different.
photoshoots are really expensive, but they're the right way to do it.
- jharbort0
photoshoots are really expensive, but they're the right way to do it.
Gucci
(Apr 3 07, 10:02)---------
yeah thats what i said ... and it wouldn't be all that expensive considering i'm also the photographer ... /graphic designer/ web designer/developer/copywriter
.. and of course the "can you show me how to use my email/ internet" guygotta love small companies that make a ton of money ..but still act like small companies
grrr.
- mg330
#2 is bad for sure, and only a whore would buy a couch like that.
- jharbort0
anyone have in experience with the furniture industry or something related?
- jharbort0
*any
- mg330
My friend kevin in LA does. He made it a goal to have sex with more than 20 women on his roommate's couch once he moved out there last August, and he got there by November.
If that doesn't qualify as an industry, it's certainly something related.
- Sickman0
i don't think those shots have been messed with much if at all
i've assisted and done retouching on many furniate shoots - big and small
we would often come across people who would want a peice shot against white so that it could be placed into several different scenes\pre-existing enviroments. which is fine - but it takes alot of time to do and often doesn't look great. you end up spending tons of time trying to get the lighting to match
if your starting from scratch i recomend shooting it in the actuall enviroment
- Sickman0
wow my spelling sucks
- lvl_130
all the stuff here is photoshoot. it is a ton of time to prep/art direct and money...but you get what you pay for i guess.
couple examples
http://www.target.com/gp/homepag…
- OSFA0
uuhh I love that bedding set.
- lvl_130
uuhh I love that bedding set.
OSFA
(Apr 3 07, 10:54)bwahahaha. fuck sorry. the homepage was just updated...last week there were a whole lot of room shots.
ah well.
- tadcautious0
anyone have in experience with the furniture industry or something related?
jharbort
(Apr 3 07, 10:19)i had friends from college shoot furniture like this at thomasville, broyhill, etc in north carolina. most of it was done there since high point is the furniture capital of the world (or it used to be).
- material-10
ummm... I thought Milan was the furniture capital...
- tadcautious0
Material, haha, true, milan has way better designers and such. i meant to say in regards to high point's bi-annually furniture market.
- adamm0
I work in Grand Rapids MI, home of Steecase, Herman Miller, Hekman, etc... and work on many projects for them
Everything they shoot is done in a studio. Way nicer and less time than photoshopping everything. Very expensive though.
My suggestion, if you cannot afford a professional studio, would be create a mock setting with windows, shoot it, and place the perfect background in the windows. It can be done, I have done it.
- jharbort0
My friend kevin in LA does. He made it a goal to have sex with more than 20 women on his roommate's couch once he moved out there last August, and he got there by November.
If that doesn't qualify as an industry, it's certainly something related.
mg33
(Apr 3 07, 10:23)---------
maybe the women were photoshopped in ?
- jharbort0
seriously though.. thanks for all the feedback so far