Backlit Glowing Seashell
This is one of my sister's shells that I borrowed and took home to exploit.
Lighting stuff: I wanted to show the translucent qualities of the shell and make it glow by backlighting it, so I placed a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind the shell at camera left. Lighting for the front came from a YN560-III in a 24 inch softbox at camera left and pointing towards the center at a 45 degree angle. Fill light came from a small mirror handheld at camera right. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I originally photographed it on both a mirror and a black card, but neither worked very well because the black edges of the shell blended in with the background. To separate the shell from the background I Photoshopped in a background that blended between two shades of gray. That was tedious.
I find sea shells to be beautiful objects from nature, and have photographed quite a few of them over the years. Other shells that I have photographed are in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290
Backlit Glowing Seashell
This is one of my sister's shells that I borrowed and took home to exploit.
Lighting stuff: I wanted to show the translucent qualities of the shell and make it glow by backlighting it, so I placed a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind the shell at camera left. Lighting for the front came from a YN560-III in a 24 inch softbox at camera left and pointing towards the center at a 45 degree angle. Fill light came from a small mirror handheld at camera right. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I originally photographed it on both a mirror and a black card, but neither worked very well because the black edges of the shell blended in with the background. To separate the shell from the background I Photoshopped in a background that blended between two shades of gray. That was tedious.
I find sea shells to be beautiful objects from nature, and have photographed quite a few of them over the years. Other shells that I have photographed are in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290