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| Lighting
Demo: 2/26/08. The subject is a A pair
of old harmonicas to demonstrate lighting of highly reflective objects.
Backdrop is black velvet. The shot was taken with a Canon 5D using an 85mm F1.8 EF lens at F20 with Norman Studio Strobes as the lighting. One softbox through a diffusion light panel was used 1. This is the original shot as it came from the camera plus minor levels and curves adjustments
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| 2. For this exposure a scrim made of folded plastic screening was laid on the diffusion panel to create the dark area on the plate of the top harmonica. |
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| 3. As an experiment, the scrim roll was widened and made thinner to cover more of the plate and make the dark area a little lighter. |
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| 4. An orange gel was added to the scrim roll to show the effect of adding color to the shot. |
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| 5.
Here is a detail of how the light brings out the
engraving on the nickle silver cover plates. We ran out of time but the next steps would have been to: a. Add some color to the bottom harmonica, and, |
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