Meltdown

It's an arty silver coloured aluminium trivet set on a black floor tile. All other colour is from the lights used.

 

Lighting stuff:

Four hotshoe flashes fired by radio triggers.

 

The trivet is not polished mirror-smooth but has a fine texture which catches/reflects light well. And rather usefully. :-) If it had been made of stainless steel, for example, it would have needed lighting rather differently. ;-)

 

* Vivitar 285 (Purple, Lee 180 + 002) lighting only a grey wall behind the setup (out of shot). The purplish base & background - and the purple seen on the upper surfaces of the trivet - is a reflection of the wall behind the whole setup.

The other three flashes were all snooted Vivitar 283s and lighting the trivet only.

* Red (Lee 026 or 164 - can't remember) from left, low. This lit and coloured the (more or less) left-facing surfaces.

* Blue-green (Lee 116) from right, slightly higher. This lit and coloured the (more or less) right-facing surfaces.

* White from almost directly above to reflect light back at the camera from the 'shoulders' (a bit like lighting the wheelarches of an old car from above?).

 

Hope that makes sense - it looks far more complicated witten down than it actually was, honestly!

 

EDIT: If anyone wants more info on how the background/base was coloured

this setup diagram for this photo should help. :-)

 

* Learn how to light at Strobist *

Done