Digital Light Kits

[Heidi Maiers]

Originally Posted by Garth Herrick

In truth I shot over 600 images the one evening, and each conveyed a distinctly individual expressive message about the sculpture.

Good gracious Garth,

I admire your attention to detail and quest for perfectionism, but isn't that overkill? I have a hard enough time with just a couple of dozen deciding which ones to use as my display photos. Do you actually download and keep all of those (on a zip drive or CD), or do you just look through them and keep a handful? Storing those on your drive would would eat up your available space in no time.

[Garth Herrick]

Originally Posted by Heidi Maiers

Good gracious Garth,
Storing those on your drive would would eat up your available space in no time.

Well Heidi, yes, I have almost managed to eat up my available hard drive space in no time, and will need another hard drive soooon! I have added 200 gigs to my existing 200gigs, and need 200 more.

Garth

[Mike McCarty]

Moderators note:

The discussion regarding the management of photos has been split into it's own thread and can be found under:

Photography General Discussion, Photo Management - organizing your images:

http://forum.portraitartist.com/show...32692post32692

[Heidi Maiers]

I am finally getting around to experimenting with my light kit since I just have a finished piece back from the foundry. This is the photoflex soft box and has a filtering screen across the 500 watt bulb. Seems no matter where I place it, there is still quite a dark shadow cast behind the piece. Is it best to try to place the light directly overhead?

Anyway, I found these great background supports and paper at B&H Photo . The background support plus three rolls of paper (white, suede, and brown) were under $100 total.

[Marvin Mattelson]

The background curves up immediately behind your sculpture, becoming basically an angled wall. The table top needs to extend further back so that the shadow is cast on a horizontal plane. This will foreshorten the shadow and render it less obtrusive.