Chocolates
Just playing around with the scrim I made a while back. It's roughly 1.5x2m with a frame made from 21mm plastic waste pipe (B&Q sell this along with all the corners, T pieces, 45 degree corners etc to make any kind of frame you want). The surface is Translum plastic which is made by Savage. You can buy it on a roll 1.5m wide. The idea is to project light onto the scrim so that it drops to nothing before it reaches the edge of the scrim - and so there's no edge visible.
The trick here is that we see the blue ball reflected in the shiny black perspex surface. It's being generated by a Lencarta SF600 with a 30 degree grid and blue gel. Now, of course this blue light also shines on the chocolates; and I don't want blue chocolates. So they are lit from the side by a 50x90cm soft-box on another SF600. This is turned up enough to wash out the blue on the chocolates. It doesn't show up in the black perspex surface as it's an almost perfect mirror, and that light is not visible in it.
I also have a low angled snoot on a 3rd SF600 from the front/left to eliminate shadows caused by the leftmost chocolates on the ones to the right. This light doesn't show up in the black mirror surface either - so that remains blue as only the blue light from above is seen by the camera reflected in the perspex.
Note: I saved these chocolates from last Xmas - and we've moved house since then. I've been meaning to shoot them for 10 months as I thought they looked good and tbh, they don't look too good now. I'll try this again with some new ones soon :)
Chocolates
Just playing around with the scrim I made a while back. It's roughly 1.5x2m with a frame made from 21mm plastic waste pipe (B&Q sell this along with all the corners, T pieces, 45 degree corners etc to make any kind of frame you want). The surface is Translum plastic which is made by Savage. You can buy it on a roll 1.5m wide. The idea is to project light onto the scrim so that it drops to nothing before it reaches the edge of the scrim - and so there's no edge visible.
The trick here is that we see the blue ball reflected in the shiny black perspex surface. It's being generated by a Lencarta SF600 with a 30 degree grid and blue gel. Now, of course this blue light also shines on the chocolates; and I don't want blue chocolates. So they are lit from the side by a 50x90cm soft-box on another SF600. This is turned up enough to wash out the blue on the chocolates. It doesn't show up in the black perspex surface as it's an almost perfect mirror, and that light is not visible in it.
I also have a low angled snoot on a 3rd SF600 from the front/left to eliminate shadows caused by the leftmost chocolates on the ones to the right. This light doesn't show up in the black mirror surface either - so that remains blue as only the blue light from above is seen by the camera reflected in the perspex.
Note: I saved these chocolates from last Xmas - and we've moved house since then. I've been meaning to shoot them for 10 months as I thought they looked good and tbh, they don't look too good now. I'll try this again with some new ones soon :)