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The company I work for is looking for a fast way to shoot images of jewelry between our monthly photo shoots at the studio photographer we use.
They asked me to investigate this set-up: http://store.tabletopstudio-store.com/jephkit1.html
I really want to dissuade them from making this mistake. I already do a lot of retouching in post and don't want to even go here.
What I am asking is what equipment: cameras, lenses, ect. would we need to make this wonderful under $300 table top studio work and what are the associated costs (high end)? Nobody here at our corporate office, including myself, is a photographer so I also have the argument that even if they spent the $ to buy the equipment, they are going to have to hire someone who has some photography experience, as nobody here at corporate, including me, has any.
We also have this piece of equipment: http://www.ortery.com/
Management asked me why we are not using it and asked me to research the possibilities so we can have a conversation on why/why not we would be/not be able to utilize this equipment. The have a Sony Sure Shot 7 mega pixel camera to use with this box. I could not find any documentation in our studio so when I looked up the company and equipment tutorial, I started laughing when a picture of a floppy disk (do they still make them?) came up to show how to save images. My creative director, who has been here for 3 1/2 years has never used the box and thinks the last time it was used was 4 years ago. I can see where this is going as they are trying to cut the budget, and if this archaic piece of equipment finds its way into being used.... the next step would be for them to move our product shoots of 200 pieces from our photographer to this box.
Management's argument is this is the equipment they used prior to hiring a professional photographer (many moons ago) and they sold lots of jewelry using the images...
Of course this is when they were a much smaller company and didn't have the budget for a pro. I hate to see all of the advancements we have made in the quality of our images go back 10 years.
Ok I am done rambling. Any information anyone can supply to stop this madness would be appreciated.
~Nancy
They asked me to investigate this set-up: http://store.tabletopstudio-store.com/jephkit1.html
I really want to dissuade them from making this mistake. I already do a lot of retouching in post and don't want to even go here.
What I am asking is what equipment: cameras, lenses, ect. would we need to make this wonderful under $300 table top studio work and what are the associated costs (high end)? Nobody here at our corporate office, including myself, is a photographer so I also have the argument that even if they spent the $ to buy the equipment, they are going to have to hire someone who has some photography experience, as nobody here at corporate, including me, has any.
We also have this piece of equipment: http://www.ortery.com/
Management asked me why we are not using it and asked me to research the possibilities so we can have a conversation on why/why not we would be/not be able to utilize this equipment. The have a Sony Sure Shot 7 mega pixel camera to use with this box. I could not find any documentation in our studio so when I looked up the company and equipment tutorial, I started laughing when a picture of a floppy disk (do they still make them?) came up to show how to save images. My creative director, who has been here for 3 1/2 years has never used the box and thinks the last time it was used was 4 years ago. I can see where this is going as they are trying to cut the budget, and if this archaic piece of equipment finds its way into being used.... the next step would be for them to move our product shoots of 200 pieces from our photographer to this box.
Management's argument is this is the equipment they used prior to hiring a professional photographer (many moons ago) and they sold lots of jewelry using the images...
Of course this is when they were a much smaller company and didn't have the budget for a pro. I hate to see all of the advancements we have made in the quality of our images go back 10 years.
Ok I am done rambling. Any information anyone can supply to stop this madness would be appreciated.
~Nancy
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