Ok, so this isn’t as smooth as it could be. I think my table might be lop-sided. This is a looping .gif of 24 images. It looks like there might be a frame missing, or maybe two transposed frames in there somewhere…mmm. I’m ok with it for now. This is my first one and I’ve learned a few things. Much of the work is done in photoshop although it did take some time to get the turn-table set up for the first time.
For the turn-table I used some cabinet hardware normally used for a pull-out swiveling tv shelf. I just mounted a white board to it. Part of the problem with the shaky horizon is due to the board being too small and therefore not perfectly round. I marked off the board in 24 15-degree increments and shot an image at each mark.
This next one was done by setting the camera on the platform so that the bulb and camera positions never changed in relation to one another. I took another 24 shots, one each at the marked positions. The movement of the platform is reflected from the fluorescent bulbs above.
I shot several more sequences and I’ll work on those here in the next day or so. Right now all this is just experimentation as I try to figure out the best way to capture a product that can be rotated for a possible online shopper. For me at least buying online is difficult because I need to see more detail than any one photograph can give. A sequence of still shots is much better, but this linked sequence of shots really brings it to life. Hopefully I’ll be able to refine the process to make it cost effective.
