Well, not tin foil but it looks a bit like it...
I've made a 3D sculpture in aluminium and want to get some good pics of it.
I'm finding it tricky to do as the light makes a massive difference to how it looks..
Any tips?
I'm assuming its tricky because its shiny and reflects a lot of light and does not diffuse it?
Try searching for tips of photographing water and glass objects.
I’m assuming its tricky because its shiny and reflects a lot of light and does not diffuse it?
Exactly that..
Will have a look 🙂
I'd have thought some controlled lighting with diffusers is what you will need.
I've seen ebay adverts for mirrors: Make sure you have your kit on in case of reflections.
Manual camera would help. Shoot low iso, small aperture you want to try and not let too much light in. Get some big sheets of thin white paper and get them over the piece, then I would light it from the back depending on how big it is. Lighting really needs to be on a clamp or tripod and same for the camera. If you have a timer on the camera you can hold the sheet if you haven’t got a clamp setup that would work. Just got to play with it really.
Did some photography of glass objects recently and ended up using three lights from different directions, 2 from front diagonally and one from behind and a dark background/room to get something I was happy with, surprisingly tricky
Would a polarising filter help?
Back in a previous lifetime when I photographed things for a living I'd of rigged up a light tent for something like that.
The trick with photographing shiny things is simple - don’t light the object, light the things it reflects. Embrace the reflections, you need to create them so you control them.
so say you have a shiny thing on a table in the corner of a room - light the walls and ceiling, as that’s what you “see”, and you don’t get other reflections.
Alternatively if you can diffuse the light lots do something like:
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/pretty-shiny-things.html
Get a cheap pop up light tent and put it next to a big window.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/photo-light-box
Dont light the subject directly. Bounce light off other surfaces. Use a black background and then set the exposure for the metal and make sure there is a decent gap between the subject and the background
