Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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) > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair