Morning All, After a few days of practising and testing, I need to ask... Anyone has any comments/ideas/tricks to photograph shiny objects with no specular reflections or shiny bits?
I have to photograph quite a few items made of metal and different colours. Because of the technical use of the photos, they can't have any highlights (if at all possible) as this would fool the computer that is going to process the photos. I have tried cards of different colours to act as reflectors to bounce light or get rid of light, but the results are not perfect and soon I will have to photograph pretty big stuff (car sized), so it isn't really an efficient solution. Anyone knows of any light source that will produce something so diffuse that will not show the point of origin of the light? I am shooting with a Canon D60 and soon with a Kodak 14Npro and then PC with WinXP. I know I could get rid of most of the highlights in Photoshop, but ideally, we'd like to speed up the production time and do as little postproduction as possible. The second question, anyone knows of a studio in or around London capable of hosting cars that could be hired (the studio, not the car!). :) Thanks very much in advance for your help. All the best, Paco. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
