I know this thread is about flash, and there have been some lovely examples, but I thought it would be worth mentioning another technique. Being a cheapskate at heart, I thought I could use Quartz Halogen lights to take photographs of items I wanted to sell. Each light cost a mere £5 from Asda so an experiment would not break the bank. Attached are two example images of a lens I subsequently sold on ebay. I used a couple of Lastolite diffusers to soften the light from the lamps and some reflectors to lighten shadows. The main problem I had was the background, as I only had A4 sheets of white paper. Of course the great advantage is that you can see the modelling, and adjust to suit. The disadvantage is that you have to do the work in a room shielded from all other sources of light.
Leif
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