JohnGreco
Member
Hi folks- It's been a while since I posted but I wanted to share a recent picture and see if anybody else has a better way to handle this.
As many of you know, I've been turning solid marble. What I didn't realize is just how much the stone likes to glow when light hits it! But worse than that, if the cap is upright and the body is horizontal, they glow differently. Ugh! I believe it's because the upper finial is blocking light from passing through the upright cap the same way as it passes through the body.
My typical photo set-up has the pen in a lightbox with a canister flash mounted on a tripod bouncing off the ceiling. Generally speaking, this has served me very well. But in this case, I could never get the cap and body to look similar in post production.
I wound up lighting the cap from the side with one of the small lights that came with the light tent + the flash. This filled everything nicely, except then I had some WB issues from 2 different types of light. I removed the yellows and blues from the picture (it is a gray cloth, silver hardware, and white marble, so removing those colors shouldn't be a problem).
In the end I wound up with the best picture of this that I've taken, but I'm left wondering...is there a better way to handle this? Thanks in advance.
As many of you know, I've been turning solid marble. What I didn't realize is just how much the stone likes to glow when light hits it! But worse than that, if the cap is upright and the body is horizontal, they glow differently. Ugh! I believe it's because the upper finial is blocking light from passing through the upright cap the same way as it passes through the body.
My typical photo set-up has the pen in a lightbox with a canister flash mounted on a tripod bouncing off the ceiling. Generally speaking, this has served me very well. But in this case, I could never get the cap and body to look similar in post production.
I wound up lighting the cap from the side with one of the small lights that came with the light tent + the flash. This filled everything nicely, except then I had some WB issues from 2 different types of light. I removed the yellows and blues from the picture (it is a gray cloth, silver hardware, and white marble, so removing those colors shouldn't be a problem).
In the end I wound up with the best picture of this that I've taken, but I'm left wondering...is there a better way to handle this? Thanks in advance.