Don Kondra
12-20-2011, 10:04 PM
Greetings,
Made some time the other day to do a quick and dirty comparison of lighting modifiers using continuous lights.
The object is a hollow turned maple burl bowl by Michael Hosaluk, circa 1985.
Background is a graduated gray varitone (40x60 inches) purchased from DMK Photographic Accessories on ebay. $30 plus shipping. I feel a seamless paper and/or graduated background can make the biggest improvement in photo's.
The lights are 85w CF bulbs in ten inch reflectors, the bulbs were ~ $20 @ from Alzo Digital. Umbrellas are ~ $15 @ from B&H.
The main object of this exercise was to show the variation in shadows and highlights using different light modifiers, there is very minimal processing from the raw file.
First shot is bare bulbs.
Notice I need to lower the backdrop to take advantage of the darker graduant and I didn't turn off the shop lights, duh..
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Barebulbs.jpg
Next is bounced umbrellas...
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Bdstepback.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Reflectedumbrella.jpg
Shoot through umbrellas, backdrop lowered and shop lights off :)
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Shootthroughumbrellasetup.jpg
Pretty sure I changed the color on this shot while playing around in Elements....
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Shootthroughumbrella.jpg
Next up is a light tent. Solid light gray seamless paper backdrop.
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Lighttent.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Lighttentshot.jpg
And for some drama, single strobe/softbox with styrofoam reflectors
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Softboxsetup.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Strobeandreflectors.jpg
Cheers, Don
Made some time the other day to do a quick and dirty comparison of lighting modifiers using continuous lights.
The object is a hollow turned maple burl bowl by Michael Hosaluk, circa 1985.
Background is a graduated gray varitone (40x60 inches) purchased from DMK Photographic Accessories on ebay. $30 plus shipping. I feel a seamless paper and/or graduated background can make the biggest improvement in photo's.
The lights are 85w CF bulbs in ten inch reflectors, the bulbs were ~ $20 @ from Alzo Digital. Umbrellas are ~ $15 @ from B&H.
The main object of this exercise was to show the variation in shadows and highlights using different light modifiers, there is very minimal processing from the raw file.
First shot is bare bulbs.
Notice I need to lower the backdrop to take advantage of the darker graduant and I didn't turn off the shop lights, duh..
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Barebulbs.jpg
Next is bounced umbrellas...
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Bdstepback.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Reflectedumbrella.jpg
Shoot through umbrellas, backdrop lowered and shop lights off :)
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Shootthroughumbrellasetup.jpg
Pretty sure I changed the color on this shot while playing around in Elements....
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Shootthroughumbrella.jpg
Next up is a light tent. Solid light gray seamless paper backdrop.
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Lighttent.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Lighttentshot.jpg
And for some drama, single strobe/softbox with styrofoam reflectors
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Softboxsetup.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/donkondra/Strobeandreflectors.jpg
Cheers, Don