Re: Flowers in the studio


"Richard H." <rh86@xxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
news:441Ve.14297$ct5.10618@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> G. Hoppenbrouwers wrote:
>> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/index.html
>>
>> Your comments are highly appreciated.
>
> Awesome! I look forward to having the time (and lighting gear) to do
> studio work. Care to share what your lighting setup is - gear, angles,
> and power ratios? Did you vary it much for the different shots?
>

Thank you Richard.

I 'll try to explain in my best English.
I mostly use 2 studioflashlights (150Ws) with a white umbrella.
The flash goes through the umbrella in order to get soft light and to avoid
hard shadows.
The flash on the leftside (sometimes on the rightside) of the subject is
placed a bit behind the flower in order to get a nice little light-edge
around the flower and the leafs. Look f.e.:
http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/9.html
In this way you can also see the stucture of the leafs. The light goes
through the flower.
The other flash is placed right in the opposit direction in order to
lighten-up the the dark areas.


> I particularly like this one:
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/19.html
> Is it naturally fringed, or did you use lighting to get that effect?

I used the flashlight as described above.

>
> I noticed subtle artifacts in many of the black backgrounds (I initially
> thought they were a smudge on my screen). Are they a side-effect of a
> Photoshop tool, from manual retouching, or resizing for the web?
>
> Circular patterns:
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/1.html
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/2.html

I use always a natural background of black material. There are always some
white specks of dust on it.
This flowerpics I made two years ago. In that time I sarted to use PS that I
did not control at that moment.
The circular patterns are from the klone-tool to get rid of the specks of
dust.
It is not nicely done, but one can only see the patterns when the monitor is
(too) light adjusted.
On my monitor I see no patterns. Only when I open a pic. in PS and give more
brightness.

>
> Lined pattern (like mini-blinds):
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/3.html
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/6.html
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/7.html
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/9.html
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/12.html
> http://www.fotogregoir.dds.nl/bloemen/origineel/13.html
>

I do not know what you mean by this lined patterns at all. I do'nt see them.
Also not in PS.



> Cheers,
> Richard



Kind Regards,

Gregoir (NL)


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