Who could have foreseen what happened this year?
Everything came to a halt overnight including weddings and with that, our photography business. Our couples started postponing weddings until later in the year or into next year leaving us with a lot of spare time.
Of course it wasn't just us, everyone was affected including our good friends in Irish Balloon Flights who had to cancel all their flights for the foreseeable future. Not ones to sit around doing nothing, Pauline & Malcolm decided to put their other skills to good use. Being in the hot air balloon business they also service and maintain their own balloons along with balloons from all over the country. To that end, they have a small industrial sewing operation and using their skills, decided to start making reusable face masks.
You can read all about them on their website Irish-Face-Masks.com
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Of course making a good quality mask is one thing, but displaying them properly on a website is another and this is where we came in.
Despite his best efforts, Malcolm just couldn't get a decent photo of the masks. It's never as easy as it looks so we offered to help.
We took on photographing the masks both individually and in groups to display on their website. We haven't done any product photography in quite a while so it was nice to get back to this kind of set up. The last products we shot were shiny plastic bags which themselves are a challenge - try making a plastic bag look sexy :-)
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The trick with product shots is getting the white balance correct, reproducing the colours faithfully and being able to repeat the process consistently. We had to be able to reproduce a consistent set of images each time they had a new design of mask.
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Have to say it was great fun doing these and it gave us a chance to refresh our product photography skills which took a back seat over the last while as we've been very busy with weddings and hopefully we'll be back at them fairly soon.
Speaking of weddings, Irish Face Masks did come up with a few designs specifically for bride and grooms. More of a fun item, they are ideal for a few quirky photos for anyone getting married during this period.
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