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Don Kondra
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Greetings,
I shot this for a client recently, she is writing a "how to" article to be published in a woodworking magazine.
The piece which is made of bubinga is 24" wide and 2" thick.
First the smaller circle is cut out of the blank and then the larger piece is turned on the lathe normally.
The smaller circle is then mounted seperately and turned off center, each fan requires a seperate set up. Pretty, uh, scary work, he, he..
If you can imagine, while turning the center dome, the rest of the wood is spinning around like a propeller
The camera was mounted on a four foot arm on my camera stand and about four feet up, I used a bubble level to square the lens to the world
Light gray seamless paper on the floor.
On the left at nine o'clock is a strip box with grid placed sideways, I had to turn a short rod out of wood to get the softbox low enough on a C stand.
My thinking is this arrangement would throw the light across the beads and leave a shadow in the bottom of the grooves.
Then from camera right at three o'clock is a 48" octobox.
These are the two images I will present to the client before a final edit.
For the magazine...
For her portfolio...
Cheers, Don
I shot this for a client recently, she is writing a "how to" article to be published in a woodworking magazine.
The piece which is made of bubinga is 24" wide and 2" thick.
First the smaller circle is cut out of the blank and then the larger piece is turned on the lathe normally.
The smaller circle is then mounted seperately and turned off center, each fan requires a seperate set up. Pretty, uh, scary work, he, he..
If you can imagine, while turning the center dome, the rest of the wood is spinning around like a propeller
The camera was mounted on a four foot arm on my camera stand and about four feet up, I used a bubble level to square the lens to the world
Light gray seamless paper on the floor.
On the left at nine o'clock is a strip box with grid placed sideways, I had to turn a short rod out of wood to get the softbox low enough on a C stand.
My thinking is this arrangement would throw the light across the beads and leave a shadow in the bottom of the grooves.
Then from camera right at three o'clock is a 48" octobox.
These are the two images I will present to the client before a final edit.
For the magazine...
For her portfolio...
Cheers, Don
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Generally speaking the magazine will prefer the white version while craft portfolio images usually include the shadows and/or a graduated background.
Cheers, Don
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