Comments on: New year, new photos. http://www.design-realized.com/2008/01/06/new-year-new-photos/ Adventures in Soda Firing and Ceramics Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:24:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: dominic http://www.design-realized.com/2008/01/06/new-year-new-photos/#comment-5264 dominic Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:41:30 +0000 http://www.design-realized.com/2008/01/06/new-year-new-photos/#comment-5264 Nice pictures, Julie. I'd recommend hanging a white sheet/cheesecloth/softbox over the light in the back to soften the shadows in the front - or eliminate the back light altogether. Maybe try the same trick on some of the side lights, to soften the shadows a little... some of them are rather harsh. You can adjust the size of your softbox to adjust the sharpness of the shadows - as it stands, the shadows are pretty harsh. I don't know the brightness of your light to the left in the above picture, but if it's weaker than the back/right-side lights, I'd probably switch so the bright lights were in front, with the weaker light in the back, to provide a little of the rim lighting. This would also reduce the forward-casting shadow a little. At some point you might want to start playing with the highlights section of lighting101/102. Anyway, you wanted comments on your lighting, and here it is. :) - d. Nice pictures, Julie. I’d recommend hanging a white sheet/cheesecloth/softbox over the light in the back to soften the shadows in the front - or eliminate the back light altogether. Maybe try the same trick on some of the side lights, to soften the shadows a little… some of them are rather harsh.

You can adjust the size of your softbox to adjust the sharpness of the shadows - as it stands, the shadows are pretty harsh.

I don’t know the brightness of your light to the left in the above picture, but if it’s weaker than the back/right-side lights, I’d probably switch so the bright lights were in front, with the weaker light in the back, to provide a little of the rim lighting. This would also reduce the forward-casting shadow a little.

At some point you might want to start playing with the highlights section of lighting101/102.

Anyway, you wanted comments on your lighting, and here it is. :)

- d.

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