(4 Year Old Story - Moved from one of my other blogs..) I
have been doing some product shoots with few of the known Indian
Photographers who are more into commercial Photography. I can't share
more details about those shoots but recently one of my friend approached
me to click some photographs for his NGO. He runs an NGO which creates
green products out of wood and leaves. He wanted me to click photographs
of these products.
For
other shoots I normally go with my Camera gears and need not to worry
anbout studio n all. This time I had no studio and we had no budget to
get a studio on rent. So I had to proceed with something which can be
worked out locally. Here I am not going to share about the process I
followed to create a small studio setup with normal lights and other
stuff.
Other
unique thing about this shoot was time :) As we know, it's difficult
find a client who give you sufficient time. This time I shot
approximately 20 products in two shoots of 5 Hrs and I am sure who would
say how? I know :) Of-course, it impacts quaity of overall output ! In
recent past I have been a part of Photographer's team who shot a watch
in two days !!
Finally
when I was done with all the shoots, I had to share the clicks with
client to ask him for final selection. I thought of sharing most of the
shots with client, so that I can get the final list to send them for
final editing. Now question was "How to share these photographs". Since I
had no exposure of this thing, as my mentors used to take care of this
separately and I never got to know about this. I had no time to explore
the possibilities and thought to sharing all the samples in a PDF. How?
It was very easy !!!
I
use Adobe Photoshop Elements and it has wonderful component called
Organizer which gives an option to print as contact sheet. So I imported
all the product pics into Organizer and printed a contact-sheet as a
PDF. Here you see a screenshot of PDF I generated.
More suggestions around this are welcome !!!
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