Pixelwave

Another recent session, I was pleased to shoot the beautiful woodturnings of Brian Newton. It is tricky stuff to photograph, he uses some very glossy finishing. The blue-green bowl is a composite of three separate images in order to control glare from the studio lights (5 lights in all).

You're all set up and the shoot is cancelled... what to do? I've been wanting to get into photographing custom made knives so a little lighting practice seemed appropriate before tearing down the gear.

This is a deceptively complicated shot with three strobes (two with grids and one with a strip softbox), a diffuser panel and two reflector cards. The monorail camera with tilting front helped to put everything into the plane of focus.

I think it was a good use of the time!