Critique the Community
Product Photography
Submit your best Product Photo
Congratulations to the winners!
After a 6 month delay, critique the community is finally back. Here are the results of our product photography contest.
Submit your favorite image taken in 2022 so far for the next critique here.
Rules & Prizes
Alright everyone, it's time for a new Critique the Community! This time around we are exploring product photography. Recently our good friend and Fstoppers educator Brian Rodgers Jr posted a brand new image to the Fstoppers Community and it absolutely rocks! In honor of his amazing photography and composite work, we thought this could be a fun way to showcase your own hero shots!
All images must be submitted by Nov 30th and hopefully we will critique them live the first week in December. I say hopefully because both Lee and I are moving homes in Puerto Rico and aren't sure where we will be in the next few weeks.
As always, the highest rated image and one random winner will get their choice of any tutorial in the Fstoppers Store (I'd suggest checking out Brian's The Hero Shot if you haven't already). Good luck and we are excited to see what you guys have been up to in the world of product photography.
Featured Image: Brian Rodgers Jr.
Tue, 11/30/2021 - 12:00
This contest has ended.
95 people have cast a total of 3,627 votes on 111 entries from 60 participants
Contest Submissions
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23 Comments
Who's the random winner?
I find your comment a bit strange, because all you mention as some sort of deviation from the brief are exactly what we do as product photographers. I am confused by what you mean by "just photos of products" as some sign of purity of this type of photography.
Ads for products, have product photography, I don't see any fundamental distinction between then.
But even if you check Brian's work, that served as inspiration for this contest, is edited and of finished, polished products.
I understand that is you opinion, but I'm curious as to why you think that is.
I'm sorry if that was the tone that passed, but I am just curious on how you see this type of photography, for you to have those feelings about it, that's all.
I get what you say about images being polished, but that's what is expected from high end product photography. Of course there's space for more simple, raw shots, but that's usually for e-commerce or quick on-a-budget kind of photography.
As far as I see in my career, photo manipulation and composites are the mainstay for product, be it, focus stacking, making plates, light painting, background replacements, all this is part of it.
These days more and more products shots actually are made in 3D programs, for example cars almost always. That's how things are these days and it's not going to go any different direction in future either, to make great product photographs (or whatever you call them) some serious editing skills are required! If not edited, they usually look more or less like snapshots, or at least have many visible flaws in them and get rated low. However, it's true that over-editing or over-simplifying a 3D model also look too plasticky and perhaps should get lower ratings. However it's a fine balance there and it's subjective.