Creative product photography of waterproof storage boxes
This post is about a recent creative product photography shoot for a client who I normally complete clearcut product work for of his storage boxes. He called and asked if I was able to create some interesting product photography, initially I was kind of insulted! What did he mean?, didn’t he find the work I did for him interesting? But after talking for a while I was able to work out that he needed an image which had attention grabbing potential, and that illustrated the fact his new storage box range was waterproof.
We talked for a while and afterwards I had a good idea of what he had in his mind image wise, I ran an idea which I had past him, and gave him a price estimate on the work in an email later that day.
He was initially a little shocked by the costing I gave him as he is used to standard clearcut product images and not more time intensive creative product imagery such as this image. After explaining the process that would be involved he could see the reasoning and pressed go on the project.
The final image is above, and below is an explanation on what went into creating the image.
The process involved in creating the image
To create the image I captured 151 images and then combined 11 of those images together to create the one final image. A fair chunk of the 151 images involved experimenting different ways of capturing a variety of shaped splashes. The rest of the images were to light the brand name on the handles so they popped out of the image nicely and drew the viewers attention.
Heres a few of the outtake images captured while creating splashes of water for the final image composite, none of these were used in the final image
The final images used to create the composite creative product image
Heres the images which were used for the final composite image. Can you spot which parts of these were used in the final product photograph?
I composited select parts of the images above into one final image using layer masks in photoshop, creating the feeling of the the box being dropped into the water and sending splashes flying all around it. The client was thrilled with the final image of the new range, and I really enjoyed the process of making it for him.
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I’d love to help you create some creative product photography for your business. If you need to get some attention then images with something a little different could be the answer. Even if you don’t have the idea in place get in touch and I can help you brainstorm and suggest some potential image ideas. Get in touch below to get the ball rolling