How to Photograph a Dress on a Ghost Mannequin

How to style and photograph and fitted dress on a ghost mannequin. Learn how to dress the mannequin and style the dress using pinning, clipping, and tape to shape the garment. Remove the mannequin’s arms. Then slip the dress on and reattach the arms by slipping them through the neck opening. Even up the neckline and remove the mannequin’s neck component. Use tape to prevent the garment from slipping off the shoulders. Extend the mannequin bottom slightly using double-sided tape. Fill the arms with tissue paper to get a nice shape. Take an Inside-out shot of the neck area for easy compositing in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we used the StyleShoots Vertical, caddy and mannequin. Perfectly suited for ghost mannequin photography to achieve the invisible man effect. Learn more about StyleShoots Vertical here: See more product photography tutorials here: Buy ghost mannequins: ------------------------------------ Credits Host: Matt Brasier Videographer: Alex Buhl Art Direction & Animation: Emmanouel Ioannidis Photo equipment: StyleShoots