"Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@cape.com> wrote/replied to: >Among my concerns are: > >That the felt will suck up the light while the steel rings will >bounce it back to the film and burn hot spots in the images, >especially the cut edges of the rings. > >That polarizing the lights will eliminate the reflections off the >rings to such an extent that they won't look shiny like they are. > >That there is no slide film which can mediate between the highlights >from the steel rings and the relative dullness of the felt. > >That there is no slide film that will reproduce the colors of the >felt accurately without some distortion. > >Of course, photoshop is not an option here, since the artist needs >slides to submit to juries and she's not aware of what the real cost >could be of shooting these and photoshopping them and sending the >files out for duping to slides. > >Thanks for any advice. You could of course bounce your lights off of large white sheets. I used to use polystyrene sheets - cheap and very white, come in different thicknesses and sizes. Just hang them, put them on the wall whatever. You can easily cut a hole and shoot through that. I prefer hot lights and tungsten film. You can use a filter though on daylight film. Err to the warm side. Good luck. Jim Davis Nature Photography http://www.kjsl.com/~jbdavis/
