On 10/22/2010 8:12 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> I just looked at that sample photograph, with the notations on it ...
>
> I'm reminded of one of my favorite setups for photographing glassware is to
> use a sweep table, but place a large sheet of vellum (using roll vellum is
> very handy for this) suspended over the object in question.
> the vellum can be extremely close to the object, but just barely outside the
> camera frame. Actually, it doesn't matter if it is in the frame or not if it
> goes pure white anyway. Suspend a flash almost
> directly above the object above the vellum, but slightly closer to the
> camera. The higher the flash, the more spread out the light (cloudy day
> lighting). The closer the light to the vellum, the more 3D modelling you get
> on the subject but the highlights have a sweet roll off without any harsh
> shadow.
Ah, thanks. I was thinking of suggesting something like that, but knew neither
what material to use nor whether it would
work as imagined.
Moose
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