metalgrudge04
This is to illustrate how I make some of my photos, like the omniwheel chassis or Batman's tumbler.
Another picture like this: Ice9 multilayer.
The basic needs for this technique are a tripod, a dark room and some kind of light you can move around. It's absolutely vital that the camera DOES NOT MOVE.
I use a small desk light to get light from all kinds of directions. The bare minimum for me is about 30 pictures, because you never know how a picture might turn out. I try to light the model from every angle, sometimes reflecting it off a piece of paper or positioning it right behind the model.
Once you have plenty of pictures, it's off to the editing room. Using Photoshop*, I adjust the pictures. Most of the individual pictures get darkened a lot, so only the bright highlights show up. I also use Photoshop to add color to the lights where necessary. The pictures are placed on layers on top of eachother, most of the time using the 'screen' blending mode. This keeps all the light areas intact, and the dark areas transparent.
The end result is that you've got much more liberty tweaking and adjusting all kinds of different lights from different sources, without getting out of your seat.
*Or GIMP where necessary
metalgrudge04
This is to illustrate how I make some of my photos, like the omniwheel chassis or Batman's tumbler.
Another picture like this: Ice9 multilayer.
The basic needs for this technique are a tripod, a dark room and some kind of light you can move around. It's absolutely vital that the camera DOES NOT MOVE.
I use a small desk light to get light from all kinds of directions. The bare minimum for me is about 30 pictures, because you never know how a picture might turn out. I try to light the model from every angle, sometimes reflecting it off a piece of paper or positioning it right behind the model.
Once you have plenty of pictures, it's off to the editing room. Using Photoshop*, I adjust the pictures. Most of the individual pictures get darkened a lot, so only the bright highlights show up. I also use Photoshop to add color to the lights where necessary. The pictures are placed on layers on top of eachother, most of the time using the 'screen' blending mode. This keeps all the light areas intact, and the dark areas transparent.
The end result is that you've got much more liberty tweaking and adjusting all kinds of different lights from different sources, without getting out of your seat.
*Or GIMP where necessary