[Leica] Help with studio lighting: PAW 7

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

I bet if you google it, there are tons of advice on how to photograph 
jewelry to minimize reflections.

I like ALT1 better. When I saw the first one, my first thought is that you 
need a more contrasting background to show the pearls off, and ALT1 does 
that. May be instead of a light colored Chinese silk, try a darker colored 
one?

At 12:24 AM 2/13/2005, Alastair Firkin wrote:

>My sister asked me to display some of her pearls, with a Japanese flavour. 
>Lighting pearls was harder than I had expected. Those shiny surfaces 
>bounce light everywhere, focusing the digilux 1 on a string of pearls was 
>a nightmare, and keeping shadows down to a minimum was tricky: so how 
>should I have done it, and any suggestions for the "set-up".
>
>So this week's PAW:
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/Alastairs-PAW-2005/Week7
>
>and alternative:
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/Alastairs-PAW-2005/W7alt1
>
>comments would be very helpful
>
>Cheers
>
>Alastair

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