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Lee0204
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maybe something like this?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-St...RTJU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333278479&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-St...RTJU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333278479&sr=8-2
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No, What's needed is a direction light, skimming across the surface of the item to reveal the texture. That link does the opposite.
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Below is an example of Garry's advice
It was taken as part of a collection for a Jeweller. It's an original early Victorian broach, and without the quite harsh direction lighting from camera right, you wouldn't be able to see the detail in the relief due to the wear on the figure.
You can see the shadowing along the outline of the face, and in the detail such as the eyes etc. Without the light skimming over the surface, you wouldn't get the apparent detail, and the figure on the broach would therefore appear extremely worn and featureless.
I used the Lencarta Safari Classic for this shoot, using one head firing through a boomed 120cm folding octa for the key light, and the second head through a gridded standard reflector to provide the accent lighting across the textures etc.
Of course, you needn't go to that sort of length, as you could easily manage this with a couple of speedlights and some thought. There are speedlight kits about that will give you softboxes and grids etc, you just end up working in much closer proximity. Very rewarding though
It was taken as part of a collection for a Jeweller. It's an original early Victorian broach, and without the quite harsh direction lighting from camera right, you wouldn't be able to see the detail in the relief due to the wear on the figure.
You can see the shadowing along the outline of the face, and in the detail such as the eyes etc. Without the light skimming over the surface, you wouldn't get the apparent detail, and the figure on the broach would therefore appear extremely worn and featureless.
I used the Lencarta Safari Classic for this shoot, using one head firing through a boomed 120cm folding octa for the key light, and the second head through a gridded standard reflector to provide the accent lighting across the textures etc.
Of course, you needn't go to that sort of length, as you could easily manage this with a couple of speedlights and some thought. There are speedlight kits about that will give you softboxes and grids etc, you just end up working in much closer proximity. Very rewarding though