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Photographing a silver tray How do I photograph a silver tray, without glare from the flash?
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John Wright |
I would think that you would want to diffuse the light. In fact, I would suggest a simple home made light tent (easy to make with PVC pipes and then covered with a white bed sheet would suffice). Essentially, the diffusion is what you are after. This will remove the glare.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
light angle. diffusion will prevent it from being too contrasty, but it's light angle.
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Wing Wong |
Hi Susan, Are you using the flash that is on your camera or a seperate flash unit? If you are using the flash on your camera, try playing around with the angle as Gregory suggests. However, if there is a particular angle you want the tray taken at, then what you can try is the following: Get a piece of translucent paper, thick vellum, and hold it a few inches in front of your camera's flash, but out of the field of view of your lens. This will help to diffuse the light and not have the flash create a hard reflected light glare against the silver. Depending on the angle, however, as Gregory pointed out, you may still get glare. If you are using an off-camera flash, then just reposition the flash so that the reflection of the flash unit isn't creating glare from the point of view of the camera. The other option would be to forego the use of the flash and go with some desk lamps on either side of the tray with the lights aimed at the tray, but about 2-3 feet away from the tray. Place a white sheet between the lamps and the tray at about 1 foot from the lamp and 1-2 feet from the tray. This will help to diffuse the light. Adjust your camera settings so that the shot will be properly exposed, with some shots over and underexpose. You should be able to get some shots with much less or no glare. Out of curiosity, are you using digital or film? (the answers would be the same regardless)
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