A couple of camera related pictures

[Moschero]

Here's a couple of tries at "doing it on the cheap". Both pieces were set on a piece of glass from a junked scanner that was painted with black paint. The background was a black velvet strip that came with the "light tent" I picked up at Samy's last year. The background was lit with a red and blue Kodak Wratten filter gel taped to a 430 Ex flash (the gels were found in a desk at work, thats what got this started.) And the diffusion and bounce for the main light was from a FEDEX foam liner from a document mailer bouncing my 580 EX. Improvise baby! Give me feedback I want to hear it!

http://www.pbase.com/moschero/image/100679737.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/moschero/image/100679782.jpg

Keep in mind this was just a "on the fly" thing to show a couple people at work some basics about lighting.

[neumanns]

The first one ... The gelled background and the reflection is fantastic, shame about the light source showing up in the side of the lens. I'm not even sure how you would prevent it.

[Moschero]

Thanks for the comments, that second shot is going to be tricky to get rid of the reflection. It's probably going to take multiple shots then combine them in post processing. When I get the time I'm going to work with it some more to see if I can pull it off.