Re: How would you take this shot?

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:13:58 GMT, burt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Burt
Johnson) wrote:

>          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... :-(

Check out a book called (something like) Light Science and Magic - it
covers this situation exactly. One of the other posters pretty much
got it saying that the edges of the glass are picking up a black
object. The simplest way to do this is to have the white backlit
surface be just large enough to fill the frame, then the area just
outside is black. You can play around with the subject to backlight
and camera to subject distance to vary the degree of black you get.
It's worth a try as it's quite satisfying when you get it right.