http://www.modernbook.com/flowersandleaves/images.htm
Pick any of them along the bottom. I am impressed with the whole batch.
This person was part of a photo display at a local camera store
recently. I was wow'd enough that I thought I would try it... and got
junk... :-(
Turns out to be harder than I thought to shoot transparent glass against
white and knock out the background...
My shots have the vase looking grey and dull, and I have a heck of a
time properly knocking the background out because there are places the
vase just disappears (it _is_ transparent, after all).
This person has somehow mastered this technique. Nicely illuminated
images. Great transparent glass, yet with well defined edges.
Background cleanly knocked out -- I saw the 20X24 prints and up close
they were immaculate.
The plants in my vases look fine. If I could get the glass to look like
this, I would consider it a personal success.
I have tried a light tent, and no tent. Lights on sides, top, back in
various combinations. I have tried tungsten, but not yet flash (I don't
have enough of them for a good multi-flash setup), but can't see how
that would make any difference for a still object like this.
My Photoshop skills are "early intermediate" I guess. I can do the
basics, and periodically wow the family with fixing bad snapshots, or
taking that tree out of the niece's head (or salvaging a terrible Board
of Directors shoot my wife did last year where she did not notice the
streak of light from the window going right over their faces...). I
barely understand masks, smart objects, or the other more advanced
tricks of CS3 (which I own) though.
Any suggestions? Hints? Tutorials (!) ?
--
- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
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