Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks: I presume that with a light tent the studio will have to be dark, so it sounds like an after hour job. Should I use flash guns behind some diffusing material to create such an artificial "sun"? Any simple light tent solutions? Cheers On 14/02/2005, at 3:29 AM, Eric wrote: > Alastair: > >> Lighting pearls was harder than I had expected. Those shiny >> surfaces bounce light everywhere > > I'd look at using a light tent or something similar to help control the > lighting. You're not really photographing the pearls as much as you > are > photographing what they reflect. A tent might help control some of the > specular highlights. And make them more neutral, too. > > Something to play with would be to add some kind of object that would > show > up in the reflections. That can be fun, too. > > > -- > Eric > http://canid.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair