On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 at 19:45:41 -0700 (PDT), Kelvin Ang
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm in the process of building some sort of "studio"
> whereby I can place my subject (currently, my
> 12-inch-tall soldiers toys) in and be well lighted via
> some sort of controlled lighting. It should work much
> like a typical studio for portrait photography, I
> hope.
See if you can scare up a copy of the same Kodak book on close-up and
macro photography that I recommended to another pdmler (in India,
iirc) a week or so ago. It includes lots of suggestions on how and
why to light macro subjects.
One nifty strategy is to make a large cone of translucent material
with the camera poking in through the tip: this can result in a very
even, shadowless illumination. Other issues include grazing
illumination instead of straight on, point sources vs. diffuse
sources, and other such matters.
The exact choice depends on the final effect you are trying to
achieve. If you are trying to photograph your toy soldiers as
artifacts, then a sort of "documentary" illumination is appropriate.
If, on the other hand, you are trying to photograph them "in action",
as if they were real soldiers, then a completely different strategy
depending more on chiaroscuro might be appropriate.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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