When I could get it easily, I used fully exposed and developed roll film...... sixty inch wide roll film that is. It could be used like any roll background either base up for a reflective surface or emusion up for a beatiful satin surface. Double reflections were unheard of.
Lithographic film was the blackest and had the glossiest base, but was prone to pinholes. Continuous tone film, while it didn't develop out as intensely black, was more dependably flawless. I don't know if the graphic arts industry even uses film anymore, but it should be available for making contact printing internegatives for platinum / palladium printing. regards, Anthony Farr On 16/11/2007, Brendan MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone do product shots on dark (black) > reflective material that produces good, even > reflections? > > I'm currently stumped working on a shoot for a local > company. I have to shoot some video components on > black (easy enough) but I'd like some good natural > reflection from the surface they rest on. > > I've already tried tempered glass over black cloth > (velour) but the reflections double up and look > god-awful. There's a PS trick for reflections but it's > simply too much work for anything but straight on > views. All of my shots are oblique angles. > > This guy had a really good idea: > > http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-assignment-shoot-your-shiny-new.html > > But, there's no way I'm going to find a piece of > granite as big as I need it (30" x 48" roughly) and it > would be way too expensive in any event. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks ahead of time. > > -Brendan > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
