I want the edge of the glass vase to have that white line, no reflection in the front surface of the vase. I would like the color of the pink flowers to pop over the dark solid black background.
Can someone help me on how I can achieve this? I know I have seen others create this sort of image. Just not sure on how they set up lights and settings.
This can be accomplished in a couple of different ways. You can use a black cloth background set behind your subject (further back the better). Or, what I do is to use a speedlight with fast shutter speed on my camera (my D70s has a 1/500th top sync speed). By using the fast shutter speed & a small aperture, you effectively block all ambient light from the illuminating the background (it still helps to have some distance from your subject to the background)...While I had no vase in this shot below, it was taken in bright sunshine
Mah and PaH wrote: I want the edge of the glass vase to have that white line, no reflection in the front surface of the vase. I would like the color of the pink flowers to pop over the dark solid black background.
Can someone help me on how I can achieve this? I know I have seen others create this sort of image. Just not sure on how they set up lights and settings.
Thank you
You really haven't told us much about the set up. Will this be 'studio' shot or 'on the fly'?
If it's staged, keep your background 1-1/2 to 2 stops below the foreground. Then put a small amount of vasoline or some other translucent material in the inside of the rim.
Show us your results.
No matter how fast I go, there's always someone slower in front of me.
Screamin Scott wrote: This can be accomplished in a couple of different ways. You can use a black cloth background set behind your subject (further back the better). Or, what I do is to use a speedlight with fast shutter speed on my camera (my D70s has a 1/500th top sync speed). By using the fast shutter speed & a small aperture, you effectively block all ambient light from the illuminating the background (it still helps to have some distance from your subject to the background)...While I had no vase in this shot below, it was taken in bright sunshine
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