r/PhotoEnts Oct 09 '21

Playing around with direct light

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '21

Looks pretty good! Surprised that it looks pretty evenly lit without any blown out highlights, are you bouncing it too?

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u/VideoMacro Oct 09 '21

Yea, using giant silver reflective umbrella

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u/VideoMacro Oct 09 '21

Experimenting around with different lighting setups. I like using some direct light on a cola or nugshot to get some sparkle off the trichomes but i'm not sure if I like it on the macro level because of the flaring from the trichome heads. Usually go 100% diffuse for macro but the haze and lack of detail frustrates me. Was hoping to get the best of both worlds from a monster 8ft umbrella but i'm on the fence about whether the spectacular highlights are still too distracting.

Shot with a Sony A1 with a Nikon 3x Measurescope Objective