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OK, I have spent the last 6 months faffing about with various stuff and people have asked all sorts of questions via PM and in threads.
I have just finished processing a set of print orders for a client and I have 30 minutes before I bunk off for the weekend. So I thought I would take a few snaps of my setup and attempt to summarise it all here in the hope that someone might find it useful.
None of the following images have had any exposure tweaking only a resize/sharpen.
So here goes - pic 1 - general setup:
General description. There is a big hilite lit by two Lencarta 300 strobes each fitted with a standard reflector and aimed slightly backwards.
The floor is two 2.4m x 1.2m sheets of white multipanel sheeting joined with the hydralock tongue and grove.
The main light is a lencarta 600 strobe in a 1.2m softbox.
None of the strobes were fired in the image below.
The walls and ceiling are just black cotton curtains to control spill in what is a smaller space than I would ideally like.
Right, how do I get rid of the join between the floor and the hilite. Well I use a couple of sheets of perspex painted gloss white on the back tucked under the floor like this:
Once the strobes start firing it becomes all but invisible as you'll see later.
So what happens when I start firing the hilite strobes:
There are a sequence of shots at different F stops showing what happens:
F22
F16
F11
F8
As you can see by F11 the hilite is a 'white out' and by F8 most of the floor is as well. Out of interest my light meter reads F16 +/- about 0.5stops over the whole area of the hilite (measured about 3" away from the surface of the hilite).
I have just finished processing a set of print orders for a client and I have 30 minutes before I bunk off for the weekend. So I thought I would take a few snaps of my setup and attempt to summarise it all here in the hope that someone might find it useful.
None of the following images have had any exposure tweaking only a resize/sharpen.
So here goes - pic 1 - general setup:
General description. There is a big hilite lit by two Lencarta 300 strobes each fitted with a standard reflector and aimed slightly backwards.
The floor is two 2.4m x 1.2m sheets of white multipanel sheeting joined with the hydralock tongue and grove.
The main light is a lencarta 600 strobe in a 1.2m softbox.
None of the strobes were fired in the image below.
The walls and ceiling are just black cotton curtains to control spill in what is a smaller space than I would ideally like.
Right, how do I get rid of the join between the floor and the hilite. Well I use a couple of sheets of perspex painted gloss white on the back tucked under the floor like this:
Once the strobes start firing it becomes all but invisible as you'll see later.
So what happens when I start firing the hilite strobes:
There are a sequence of shots at different F stops showing what happens:
F22
F16
F11
F8
As you can see by F11 the hilite is a 'white out' and by F8 most of the floor is as well. Out of interest my light meter reads F16 +/- about 0.5stops over the whole area of the hilite (measured about 3" away from the surface of the hilite).
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