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We’re remodeling two bathrooms, and as part of a barter deal with the contractor I am doing a series of before and after photos. I’ll post more about that later, but I just wanted to drop something in quickly about the lighting on the detail shots I was doing today.It’s a quick-and-dirty, two-light setup and the effect is almost like a charcoal drawing—sort of 2-D and 3-D at the same time. And try as I might, it’s pretty hard to mess this up.__________The two lights in this case are a gridded key and a ring fill. And while there aren’t many universal solutions in photography, if you are shooting detail shots this one comes pretty close.The key is in the way the two work together. The gridded key (in this case an Einstein e640 mono with an 8.5-inch standard reflector and a 30-degree grid) spotlights the object, creating an area of full exposure just where you want it and falling away where you don’t.The ring flash (in this case, an SB-800 in an Orbis ring flash adapter is the floor to the exposure. Remembering this is all flash (i.e., no ambient) I like to …
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