Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/13

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Subject: [Leica] Help with studio lighting: PAW 7
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sun Feb 13 04:49:07 2005
References: <BE344217.12A68%vintagepedaler@comcast.net> <b39b8cfaa21a1604370705d7e5a2a9ee@ncable.net.au> <6.1.0.6.2.20050213002843.057ca510@192.168.100.42>

Limited range at home, but I'll get Helen to search out some. Thanks
On 13/02/2005, at 7:30 PM, Richard wrote:

> 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
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
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