challenging
I was sitting here the other night looking for things to photograph and I found this vase. Perfect! Then I started trying to light it.
Motherfucker!
The surface is really shiny so it would reflect the light very harshly. Other thing I have just turned a bit this way or that, or shifted the light a bit, but as it turns out round objects don’t care about these little adjustments…
So I sat down tonight with a clear head and went at it again. What i came up with was to put the light out in front and filter it through some fabric so that the bulb itself wasn’t visible in the reflection. This reduced the overall harshness and resulted in a decent pic. However…because the light is filtered to reduce the glare it isn’t providing a lot of light and therefore the exposure time is a little longer…in other words it would have been nice to have the camera on a tripod. And if my studio wasn’t sitting on the floor…I think I need a new gadget.
Purdy
Comment by Mustang Sally — June 22, 2007 @ 11:28 pm
Some tricks I have learned…
If you can spray a surface (Probably not the case with this vase) you can spay the surface with hairspray. It creates a surface that reduces the direct glare.
Also, wax paper can be used as a light difuser.
Comment by Mickey — June 24, 2007 @ 10:06 am