Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Help on lighting
From: George Lottermoser <imagist@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:43:49 -0500

Aram Langhanslanghans@yakima-wa.com (Aram Langhans)10/2/025:46 PM

>I thought of using a white umbrella over them
>and lighting them through the umbrella with flash or natural lighting.  I
>have heard that using polarizers on the light source and the lens also might
>be a way, but I think this is only for flat objects.

If you really wish to achieve top shelf lighting on small objects, jewelry, etc. You need to use very small sources. The finest jewelry photographers use fiber-optic systems which essentially allow the same size softbox (or spot) : subject size relationship that one would use for larger objects. You can achieve similar effects by controling the size of soft sources with small holes cut into larger black boards (and diffusion material set in the hole). The point is to get the highlight and fill source reflections in proportion to the object.
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