Blankets: The New Product Photography Backdrops

add pizzaze, a touch of class

Posted by michelle G.

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with this bad economy, I am finding it hard to justify buying the high end photographic muslims needed to do my clients product displays, so I have been using blankets

cotton, wools, fleece and flannel.

they add texture, movement, gloss...

its simple to set up too

I recreated some to show you

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You Will Need (3 things)

  • Camera
  • Table
  • Blanket

Steps (3 steps, 10 minutes)

  1. 1

    first, set up your display

    for a sample I am using books

    I set up my lighting and pulled the dark blue cotton blanket over a table

    I placed the books down

    and snapped them from above

  2. 2

    to create a more dramatic, sweeping look

    photograph your object on the floor

    pull a chair over and drape the blanket over the chair and pull it a bit over the floor

    place your product down and shoot it

    don't be afraid to mess the blankets up a bit, create little folds for a sculpting effect

    [i used a flannel blanket to create this look]

  3. 3

    the super shadow look

    photograph from above, pull the blanket as tight as you can,

    angle one light directly onto the object to create shadow