Hi Don, Shiny gold and silver are even harder :) My main problems at the moment are eliminating the reflections of the light stands, the camera, me on very shiny gold bands, hence the light tent. Please explain how you set the WB from the fabric. WB is my bug bear at the moment. Its driving me nuts. As for composition, I have a pair of 150W studio lights and just use the modeling lights to check for shadows. However I am not carrying around all this equipment, I have to look at these florescent lights
Feroze Don Sanderson wrote: > Hi Feroze. > I too use the EZ-Cube with 3 cheap compact florescents in white reflectors. > These bulbs were $15.00 US for the 3 and last a very long time. > I set manual WB once from the white material of the cube and haven't had > to reset it in well over 2 years. I shoot strictly jpegs for eekBay stuff. > Daylight balanced bulbs are a bit more money but would allow you to shoot > with a preset, rather than manual, WB. Auto WB has never worked well for > me in this application. > The biggest advantage to this (vs flash) is being able to see, and > eliminate, > shadows before exposure. Since my items are all different colors, shapes and > sizes, this saves me a LOT of time. > > The results are consistently very good, here's an example of a difficult > 'subject': > http://www.donsauction.com/PDML/Super-A.jpg > Shiny, all black cameras with just a bit of chrome are very hard to shoot. > > Don > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of >> Feroze >> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:17 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Light Tent / Box >> >> >> I've bought this : http://www.ezcube.com/. I'm trying to build a little >> portable kit where I can go to the customer and shoot his jewellery, >> some of their insurance dose not apply off the premises and some are >> just to valuable to move around (I don't want to take the risk). Would a >> normal flash (I have one fgz360 so far) be suitable as a light source >> for this? Daylight bulbs are very hard to get here, and I'm really >> struggling to get a proper WB on my K10D so I'm trying to avoid >> florescent or other light sources. >> >> I can't test it as its still in transit, tought I get the rest of the >> stuff together.... >> >> Your advice and past experiences is highly appreciated. >> >> Feroze >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
