Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alistair, A light tent is an easy thing to create. Find some white translucent material such as a white sheet, white shirt, you get the drift. Set up your shot with the intended background curving up so the tent will not show. Drape the tent so that you can shoot through an opening at the angle you want. The room does not need to be dark, but you will have to watch the color of the room light. If you have an R8, then use any old flash and use the flash meter. If you choose to use the Digilux, then you can use tungsten lights and do a custom white balance. If your sister and wife want you to do this on a long term basis then you can buy commercial tents for not that much. See: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=NavBar&A=search&Q=&ci= 1410 There are not really any rules, just tried and true methods for adding or removing reflections. For example, if you cut up some strips of Roscoe gels just off camera then you will add some diffuse bands of color that might enliven the scene. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Alastair Firkin Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:55 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Help with studio lighting: PAW 7 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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information