Today I spent another day in studio and wanted to try and push myself. I use mirror a lot when in studio and wanted to experiment with using different backgrounds and lighting that I was not overly familiar with.
Perspex, especially dark colours for example blue and black are not the easiest of backgrounds to shoot on, as it is highly reflective. It is not something that I have had a lot of practice and it took me a while to get the lighting just right. I also had to use a set of background poles with a role of Colorama at the back and hang it over the top of the set so that the ceiling and lights would not be reflected into both the product and the perspex. This can be seen in my illustration below of how the rig was set up.
I have kept the minimal yet dramatic lighting in order to enhance the product within the image. The capture was shot at 1/125 and at F20 on a Nikon D300 using Elinchrom lighting with the pack at 3.6. I have only used one key light from the right hand back corner of the shot. I tried several different configurations and some examples can be seen below.
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Upon reflection of this process, I feel like I have increased both my knowledge and skill level of how to shoot on perspex and it is something which I think I will be using again within the near future.
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