Horn Candy

[highsierra]

[iiipopes]

If I were a rich man....

[highsierra]

....not that I am aware of..

[The Jackson]

Is this all, or is it just a preview and I can get more for just $1.29 a day?

[Matt G]

Is this shot on a backdrop and then you photoshopped the new background in?

Also, are you using softboxes for the lighting? EXIF info?

/camera nerd

[highsierra]

Here is the camera room layout I use to photograph brass instruments.....




Go for it!

Russ Dickman

[highsierra]

The post process in Photoshop.....



Drop out background to transparent, make tuba shadow, select new background,
composite.....

Just like a E major scale..

Russ

[Rick Denney]

The post process in Photoshop.....

I knew you had dropped in a background, because of the shadow. I figured you were using large through-light scrims with the camera in between, which is a standard studio setup for photographing a tuba because it lights it evenly, minimizes specular highlights, and hides the reflection of the camera in the dark slot between the scrims. Good show on your use of the walls as reflectors. I'll need to think of how to make easy reflectors like that--my house has no such walls.

But that sort of flat front lighting is, well, incompatible with a hard shadow. A more diffuse shadow might have carried the effect a bit better. It's easy to arm-chair that sort of thing, of course.

When I'm shooting in my living room, I just bounce a flash off the ceiling, or off the underside of a 48" shoot-through umbrella. That works well enough and setting up the Speedolite stuff is such a pain.



Rick "one-time professional photographer with lights but no studio" Denney

[highsierra]

Since all of the above elements are on "layers", adjustments can be made, the shadow can be blurred more and the opacity can be reduced to make it perfect ?. Sometimes I'm a little "sharp".

Russ

[highsierra]

...$3.99 (includes sound)

http://www.bassclefbrass.com/sounds/paduert4.mp3

Russ