Tuesday 11 March 2008

When the ring doesn't work



So I showed in the last post how the ring flash suited macro subjects there the detail was was more tonal rather than textural. This is what strobist calls the "3-D-yet-flat look" and it worked pretty well for some subjects I tried. however some things just didn't work at all. The best example being an orange. To properly capture the detail of the pitted, shiney, surface of this fruit I needed to use hard light at raking angles.

Setup

One strobe camera left with a black straw grid another left with the pop-out diffuser






Post Process

Nothing major - just a few tonal adjustments in lightroom.

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