Behind the scenes of Black on Black Nikon F3HP
Following two previous gallery submissions I had a brief from Nikon Foxy Bob, to take a picture of the F3 against a black background.
There were two considerations for lighting this. I had to seperate the black camera from the black background, and put life into the lens.
To seperate the camera from the background I used a diffused flash top light. Reflectors were used to bounce light back into critical areas. A large lastolite reflector, with a flash fired from behind it provided light for the lens. The colour you see is from the lens coating.
The biggest single problem I had was manually focussing the 28-105 lens on the D100, as I wear glasses and the big softbox limited the light from the overhead striplights. I could not reach the main lightswitch through the tangle of light stands and tripods, as can be seen in the behind the scenes picture so had to rely on the two above my lathe which is behind the D100. Once again I used a laptop to control the camera and check the effect of adding each reflector in turn.
Pictures attached.
1) Behind the scenes view.
2) The areas affected by each reflector.
3) The final image.
Don
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