Shoot RAW with auto white balance and set the color temperature during conversion. That's the way I work in the studio and just about everywhere else. Paul On May 3, 2007, at 5:39 AM, Feroze wrote:
> Hi Don, > > Shiny gold and silver are even harder :) My main problems at the > moment > are eliminating the reflections of the light stands, the camera, me on > very shiny gold bands, hence the light tent. Please explain how you > set > the WB from the fabric. WB is my bug bear at the moment. Its > driving me > nuts. As for composition, I have a pair of 150W studio lights and just > use the modeling lights to check for shadows. However I am not > carrying > around all this equipment, I have to look at these florescent lights > > Feroze > > Don Sanderson wrote: >> Hi Feroze. >> I too use the EZ-Cube with 3 cheap compact florescents in white >> reflectors. >> These bulbs were $15.00 US for the 3 and last a very long time. >> I set manual WB once from the white material of the cube and >> haven't had >> to reset it in well over 2 years. I shoot strictly jpegs for >> eekBay stuff. >> Daylight balanced bulbs are a bit more money but would allow you >> to shoot >> with a preset, rather than manual, WB. Auto WB has never worked >> well for >> me in this application. >> The biggest advantage to this (vs flash) is being able to see, and >> eliminate, >> shadows before exposure. Since my items are all different colors, >> shapes and >> sizes, this saves me a LOT of time. >> >> The results are consistently very good, here's an example of a >> difficult >> 'subject': >> http://www.donsauction.com/PDML/Super-A.jpg >> Shiny, all black cameras with just a bit of chrome are very hard >> to shoot. >> >> Don >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Behalf Of >>> Feroze >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:17 PM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: Light Tent / Box >>> >>> >>> I've bought this : http://www.ezcube.com/. I'm trying to build a >>> little >>> portable kit where I can go to the customer and shoot his jewellery, >>> some of their insurance dose not apply off the premises and some are >>> just to valuable to move around (I don't want to take the risk). >>> Would a >>> normal flash (I have one fgz360 so far) be suitable as a light >>> source >>> for this? Daylight bulbs are very hard to get here, and I'm really >>> struggling to get a proper WB on my K10D so I'm trying to avoid >>> florescent or other light sources. >>> >>> I can't test it as its still in transit, tought I get the rest of >>> the >>> stuff together.... >>> >>> Your advice and past experiences is highly appreciated. >>> >>> Feroze >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
