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07FEB2024 – Photo of the Day
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
I’ve done a LOT of studio type macro. If you want the easy to do macro shots its with a lighting setup. I’ll attach a shot of my light box setup below. BTW: Important that the lights be 5000 kelvin color temp (daylight). Speaking of cameras, I’m about to acquire another body. It’s been about 6, maybe more, years since I gave my ASPC Sony a6300 to my wife and went entirely to full frame, full sized cameras. When it comes to photographic quality, you can’t beat them, but they lack in one really important respect: full frame, full sized… Read more »
Tom I’m going to have to beg your indulgence with respect to the photos of the day for a while to come. I’ve reached the photos I took at a rock and mineral show. Unfortunately the lighting for this show was “intense.” Looking at the files, many of them have blown highlights and reflections of the area lighting. I am trying to select the less effected shots but it’s pretty general. Artificial lighting has always been one of my weaknesses. My apologies.
Congrats on the new camera and thanks for the detail on the lighting set up.
A Mexican coin shot using the light box. One reason straight on lighting alone won’t work is that it won’t create the shadowing that defines the shot.
Beautiful coin.