Behind the scenes of The Silver Dhow
I thought I would tackle a subject that would be a nightmare of reflections. This sort of subject would normally be considered ripe for a light tent to be used. Allways up for a challenge I thought I would photograph it on a bench, and would try adding the reflections.
This would have been easier in a light tent with the black reflections comming from small cut outs of craft card supported on wire stems. The same principle was used here to show it can be done without a light tent.
The reason for adding reflections to the sail is that it gives it some form. It is bowed and not flat.
In the set up pictures all the white surfaces are being used to provide the light reflections on the sail and not as light reflectors.
Although a flash is fired through the large Lastolite reflector, this is to project a diffused shadow of the tripod on the front part of the sail. Bolder blacks appearing from the mid point towards the back of the sail are reflections from black objects, flash stand,tripod legs and black card.
The first image is a straight shot to show the scale of the problem.
The two behind the scenes images show the relative positions.
The Reflection diagram shows where each reflection came from.
Altogether an interesting exercise. Next I will have to follow Harrys tip for making a light tent.
Don
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