shooting products in a studio environment

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pulpwoody

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So here's what I'm doing.
Typing.

Aside from that, we have a laptop and a tablet that we're needing shots of. I want the computers to slowly rotate, and they need to floating in white space.

Question: how best to do this?

My idea, lazy susan, painted chroma green, attached to a light stand. Place computers on Susan, spin, key out susan.

Thoughts?
 
Several ways to do this depending on the product/angle of the shot. My turntable has a removable top so you can use a top smaller than a laptop size. You can also mount a dowl on a iphone power insert for example and remove in post. I found that using a non-powered lazy susan resulted in a rotation that was not smooth. Also if you can get a turntable with a remote it makes things so much easier for doing speed ramps or starting/stoping from a set position.
 
You might google for a turntable. I have a couple of them with 6" tables that I picked there. These can be hidden by the computer.
 
I have access to a turntable, but the speed isn't variable, so i wonder if hooking it up to a dimmer would slow it down?
 
So after some trial and error, I came up with a solution.
One, the spinner. I bought a rotating christmas tree stand from Lowes. Spins super slow, stable, nice.
Everything else we had in the studio, white background, lights, etc.
While shooting on the the Dell tablets, we noticed awful reflections, since iphones and tablets have that nice, glassy surface. To combat this, we put black drape in front of the camera to minimize the reflections, at least for a portion of the spin angle. It worked great.

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pulpwoody said:
So after some trial and error, I came up with a solution.
One, the spinner. I bought a rotating christmas tree stand from Lowes. Spins super slow, stable, nice.
Everything else we had in the studio, white background, lights, etc.
While shooting on the the Dell tablets, we noticed awful reflections, since iphones and tablets have that nice, glassy surface. To combat this, we put black drape in front of the camera to minimize the reflections, at least for a portion of the spin angle. It worked great.
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You could also do some stop motion photography, and get much higher resolutions. However you would need some sort of better 'calibrated' indication of how much the table has rotated. By using the still mode one could do a better key, as there is more 'color' info in the still than the motion video.
 
Problem with that is, it's way more complicated than we're budgeted for, and we had to grab and replace the computers from the white space, in real time. When the project is done, I'll post up some vids, but I was very, very happy with the results, all analog!!!

I love it when you go into an unknown situation and come out victorious.
 
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