A three bottle problem

rob marshall

I spent several days last week trying to work out a way to get rim lighting like this. I gave up. Then a photo mag dropped through my door and told me how to do it!

My intention here was just to get the merest outline of the bottle shapes with everything else either very dark or pure black.

Does it work? Or is it too minimalist?

I used a Canon 50D with Sigma 105mm macro, single studio light with diffuser and black art-board partially obscuring the diffuser, which allowed the light to wrap around the bottles.

Dogdots

I think it works great -- Maybe show some edging of the first bottle to look similar to the other two.

Good work

rwells

Nice

puzzledpaul

I came across a good book in the local library dealing with this sort of stuff.

'Light science & magic - An Introduction to Photographic Lighting'
by Fil Hunter + Paul Fuqua

Might be worth a shufties if you can find a copy.

pp

Sam

I think it's a great minimalistic abstract. This would be really cool, sophisticated hanging on a wall.

Of course I wouldn't want to print it with my printer.........huge amount of black ink!

Sam

NeilL

Interesting. Reminds me of the way city horizons are drawn in cartoons. What if you were to join up the outlines similarly? Also what if you were to use gels somehow to get some colour in the line?

Neil

NeilL

puzzledpaul wrote: »

I came across a good book in the local library dealing with this sort of stuff.

'Light science & magic - An Introduction to Photographic Lighting'
by Fil Hunter + Paul Fuqua

Might be worth a shufties if you can find a copy.

pp

Thanks for mentioning this! What an intriguing title!

Neil

Angelo

works for me. very nice


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Wicked_Dark

I think getting twin highlights on the left hand bottle would make this even better. Nice work.

rob marshall

puzzledpaul wrote: »

I came across a good book in the local library dealing with this sort of stuff.

'Light science & magic - An Introduction to Photographic Lighting'
by Fil Hunter + Paul Fuqua

Might be worth a shufties if you can find a copy.

pp

Thanks, PP. I just ordered a used copy from Amazon. There is an updated version dated 2007. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Science-Introduction-Photographic-Lighting/dp/0240808193/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291655912&sr=8-1

rob marshall

Sam wrote: »

I think it's a great minimalistic abstract. This would be really cool, sophisticated hanging on a wall.

Of course I wouldn't want to print it with my printer.........huge amount of black ink!

Sam

Perhaps you could print it on black paper, that way it would take very little ink.

Foques

very cool!
picture of the set up?

puzzledpaul

<< I just ordered a used copy from Amazon >>


Hope you find it as useful as I did.
I kept renewing the library loan period and then a few yrs ago started dropping hints to offspring about this time of year. One of them got the message

Simple but effective diagrams showing setups and photos showing the results etc - all done (imo) in such a way that you didn't feel the book had been written / produced as an excuse for the authors to show off their portfolios.

pp

rob marshall

Wicked_Dark wrote: »

I think getting twin highlights on the left hand bottle would make this even better. Nice work.

Yes, I think so. It's tricky getting the items in just the right distance from the light - too far out and you get too much light, too far in and you lose the rim light.

Here's the setup (doen't look very sophisticated, I'm afraid). It's just some black card ion front of a diffuser. Actually you can use any colour as the light doesn't shine on it and it comes out black anyway. Here's the EXIF, but it all depends on the power output from the light box. http://www.flickr.com/photos/carregwenimages/5229772644/meta/

rob marshall

And here's another from the same session... One for the road This one is very minimalist.

NeilL

The stuff of eye catching advertising!

Neil