Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So how would you try to suggest the Japan with out them? I did think of out of focus geishas and maple leaves, but the material seemed the best solution. On 13/02/2005, at 10:50 PM, Philippe Orlent wrote: > I find the backgrounds distracting. They don't help to focus oin the > pearls > IMO. > >> From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:24:57 +1100 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] Help with studio lighting: PAW 7 >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair