I am a largly self-taught Photographer. I have got to local clothing brands as customers. I shoot Packshots for their webshops, som images for instagram, and occacianally image-style photoshoots.
Usually when we do packshots, I shoot them on a model, but I would really like to supplement that with shots that are like these from APCs Webshop:
https://www.apc.fr/wwuk/men.html
That being the shots of the clothes, that is not on a model. At first I thought that these images were don by having the clothes lying flat on a white bag ground, with the camera above. However I tried this, and no matter how much time I used attempting to make the clothes lie nice an straight, I was not able to make it look as good as on the APC webshop.
Now I just realisede that the clothes is actually not lying flat on a surface, but rather hanging on something. It becomes clear when looking at a jacket like this:
If you notice, the strings are not laying against the chest of the jacket as you would expect, if the jacket was horizontal. Rather the strings are hanging straight down revealing that the jacket is actually in a vertical position.
Now I figured that they are properly using som kind of ghost mannequin. However non of the ghost mannequins that I have found on the internet seem to give this illusion of a piece of clothing lying flat on a surface. They all seem way more three dimensional.
I was hopeing someone here, has got experience shooting these kinds of packs or knows how it is don. I would really appreciate som pointers, or info on what kind of mannequin to bye.
Thanks in advance
Usually when we do packshots, I shoot them on a model, but I would really like to supplement that with shots that are like these from APCs Webshop:
https://www.apc.fr/wwuk/men.html
That being the shots of the clothes, that is not on a model. At first I thought that these images were don by having the clothes lying flat on a white bag ground, with the camera above. However I tried this, and no matter how much time I used attempting to make the clothes lie nice an straight, I was not able to make it look as good as on the APC webshop.
Now I just realisede that the clothes is actually not lying flat on a surface, but rather hanging on something. It becomes clear when looking at a jacket like this:
If you notice, the strings are not laying against the chest of the jacket as you would expect, if the jacket was horizontal. Rather the strings are hanging straight down revealing that the jacket is actually in a vertical position.
Now I figured that they are properly using som kind of ghost mannequin. However non of the ghost mannequins that I have found on the internet seem to give this illusion of a piece of clothing lying flat on a surface. They all seem way more three dimensional.
I was hopeing someone here, has got experience shooting these kinds of packs or knows how it is don. I would really appreciate som pointers, or info on what kind of mannequin to bye.
Thanks in advance
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