Last week I made my own lightbox frame out of plumbing overflow pipe. Wasn't a bad set up and last night I purchased a long piece (A1) of watercolour paper in brilliant white and a piece of glass A2 size for the base. I only have one flash and a reflector and this is one of the shots I came up with.
105mm
f/8
1/40th
Flash was 1/64th power and 24mm zoom. I tried to get the light to bounce around in the white surfaces. Sounded right in my head lol
The harsh shadow I presumed could be corrected with a secondary light, however, both lights would need to be softened either with a softbox or other? I heard the larger the light source the softer the shadow. Also the further the subject is away from the BG the softer the shadow. I would like to eliminate the shadow all together and retain the reflection so it doesn't look like it's floating in mid air.
I was going to get another flash, and put them on the light stands at 45 degree angles and with either shoot through umbrellas or reflection types.
Do you reckon my way of thinking it correct or am I way off? I don't want to throw a lot of money down the pan with this.
I then went back later and tried this one.
(© put in because my last HTC phone shot was stolen so many times that I lost track)
From the two I think the DOF is way off, and that cane be corrected with some focus stacking if needed. I plan to have the laptop sitting with live feeds coming in from the camera.
Cheers,
Paul
105mm
f/8
1/40th
Flash was 1/64th power and 24mm zoom. I tried to get the light to bounce around in the white surfaces. Sounded right in my head lol
The harsh shadow I presumed could be corrected with a secondary light, however, both lights would need to be softened either with a softbox or other? I heard the larger the light source the softer the shadow. Also the further the subject is away from the BG the softer the shadow. I would like to eliminate the shadow all together and retain the reflection so it doesn't look like it's floating in mid air.
I was going to get another flash, and put them on the light stands at 45 degree angles and with either shoot through umbrellas or reflection types.
Do you reckon my way of thinking it correct or am I way off? I don't want to throw a lot of money down the pan with this.
I then went back later and tried this one.
(© put in because my last HTC phone shot was stolen so many times that I lost track)
From the two I think the DOF is way off, and that cane be corrected with some focus stacking if needed. I plan to have the laptop sitting with live feeds coming in from the camera.
Cheers,
Paul
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