I have to confess something: photographing our Bubble Gum lollipops and getting that hot, neon pink to show up? Is really, really HARD. This is the color of the lollipop: a fabulous neon pink that reminds you of the 80s and early Madonna videos. It gets used a lot in Etsy treasuries, because it's a trendy color right now.
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| photo by Kevin Keeker |
But when we moved to what we like to call the lollipile photography style, those pops looked red. So red, in fact, that it was hard to tell their color apart from Cherries Jubilee. There's one lollipop down in the bottom of the pile that looks more pink than red, but if I were looking at just this photo? I'd think they were red.
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| photo by Kevin Keeker |
We played around with the lighting and camera settings some to make the lollipops look pinker, but this was the best we could get: half the lollipops still look red, and the labels are NOT that blue, they're way closer to the aqua of the above picture.
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| photo by Kevin Keeker |
We played around for awhile, but eventually threw up our hands in frustration. Either the labels had too much pink in them or the candy looked too red. We're still using the top lollipop photo as the lead instead of the lollipile because we're (ok, *I'm*) too ashamed to advertise our neon pink lollipops as being red. Because they're not.
Anyone have any tips? Because product photography is hard, y'all.
This is a huge problem I've had when shooting red yarn (and roses), and just about anything red in general. I do two things:
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2.) I shoot in RAW so I can tweak it out further.