Still-life

[massimo]

I'm doing some experiments on still-life photography's setups and techniques.
Of course the most challenging part is finding the correct distance and position between the lighting, the subject and the camera in order to control as you want the reflections and the "brushstrokes" of light.
Sketchup + Thea and almost no post pro: only a very slight desaturation.

[Krisidious]

beautiful...

[massimo]

Thank you Kris.

[neets]

Love this! Well done

[Rich O Brien]

Woot!

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Nice!

[massimo]

Thanks everybody.

[Mike Amos]

minimalist but seriously cool piece of work.

[olishea]

This is one of your future classics. Reminds me of a similar composition you made a while back, care to refresh my memory?

[massimo]

Thanks guys.
@oli: perhaps you are referring to an old one with glass, spoon&diamonds made in kerkythea? That one was lit with a HDRI though. Totally different set-up this time. You got no real control with HDRI.

[olishea]

@massimo said:

Thanks guys.
@oli: perhaps you are referring to an old one with glass, spoon&diamonds made in kerkythea? That one was lit with a HDRI though. Totally different set-up this time. You got no real control with HDRI.

I agree, you always need lots of gamma and exposure correction in post with HDRI too. They're quick and easy but, yeah, no control. Yes that was the image I was referring to, it stuck in my mind. Did you illuminate the new scene with the emitters quite a long distance away? Or is it a secret?

[massimo]

@unknownuser said:

Did you illuminate the new scene with the emitters quite a long distance away? Or is it a secret?

Emitters? Not really, just a single 120x70 cm emitter panel to around forty cm away from the subject.

[olishea]

nice, i thought there was one on each side.

[massimo]

Well, it's almost that. Just that I have a single emitter panel placed on the back of the subject with another a bit smaller opaque black panel in front of it leaving two little emitter stripes at the extremities. In this way you can slightly move the opaque panel to obtain different effects with lighting.

[olishea]

@massimo said:

Well, it's almost that. Just that I have a single emitter panel placed on the back of the subject with another a bit smaller opaque black panel in front of it leaving two little emitter stripes at the extremities. In this way you can slightly move the opaque panel to obtain different effects with lighting.

Great idea.

[pilou]

Half-full or half-empty ?

[hellnbak]

[massimo]

Thanks.
Well Pilou, give me some minutes and the glass will be empty and the bottle as well.

[Bryan K]

@mike amos said:

minimalist but seriously cool piece of work.

^ This.

[massimo]

Thank you Bryan.