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Yes - usual high standard.
Very lustrous to me.
? is this part of a series/ triptych?
Personally, I think I would find the mouth pieces of more interest than the ?keys/buttons? as they are more 'intimate' and the variety of mouth piece shapes could form a really attractive/interesting set.
Eg trumpet, clarinet, flute are all different and would present different challenges/opportunities of lighting and texture.
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A marvellous edit Ian, never quite sure how you achieve this degree of sharpness and resolution. Almost touchable.
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This was the first study of the subject and trying to get a composition I like is not that easy.
I am still studying the objects form and wondering how to present it next.
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quote: eternumviti wrote:
A marvellous edit Ian, never quite sure how you achieve this degree of sharpness and resolution. Almost touchable.
I knew depth of field was important so i closed the aperture down to f/16. With such a small aperture, I had to increase the flash power of the light but not to much that it over powered the chrome keys.
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Nice edit Ian and you are right when you say that that getting the right composition is not easy as it is a busy instrument.
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A quality image in all departments.
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I think that when you get into still life style - product shoot terrotory , which this seems to be in, then you have to also get all that fancy lighting equipment like soft boxes etc and tilt shift lenses to overcome the very problems you describe.
Jeff Schewe (of Adobe and Luminous Landscape fame) talks about this sort of thing a fair bit as he was in advertising
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quote: Digital Finger wrote:
I think that when you get into still life style - product shoot terrotory , which this seems to be in, then you have to also get all that fancy lighting equipment like soft boxes etc and tilt shift lenses to overcome the very problems you describe.
Jeff Schewe (of Adobe and Luminous Landscape fame) talks about this sort of thing a fair bit as he was in advertising
I don't think this is 100% true, it all depends what you are going for. A simple bedside or desk lamp is sufficient to light your still life but by default will give you hard shadows.
Regardless of the light source you use, what you need to do is decide how to modify that light for your particular setup.
Placing a sheet of grease proof paper of the desk lamp and then moving then lamp closer to the subject will give you much softer light. Shining the desktop light through a white bed sheet will give you even softer light simply because the bigger the light source, the softer the light.
I only use one light and one soft box which i bought off ebay for £15. Everything else is home made like small pieces of white matte board for reflectors and small mirrors etc.
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quote: IanBarber wrote:
............ it all depends what you are going for. A simple bedside or desk lamp is sufficient to light your still life but by default will give you hard shadows.
Regardless of the light source you use, what you need to do is decide how to modify that light for your particular setup.
Placing a sheet of grease proof paper of the desk lamp and then moving then lamp closer to the subject will give you much softer light. Shining the desktop light through a white bed sheet will give you even softer light simply because the bigger the light source, the softer the light.
I only use one light and one soft box which i bought off ebay for £15. Everything else is home made like small pieces of white matte board for reflectors and small mirrors etc.
This was the sort of kit I used when I was concentrating on still life - I didn't even have an off camera flash (I've not gone off still life - just trying out other things). Needless to say I didn't get the quaity that Ian has achieved
But it does remind me that I've been meaning to post one of my favourite photos from my still life stuff, as it is almost B&W
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