Re: How would you take this shot?

Rob <robertpoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

Amazon has 82 reviews with a composite 5 stars, which is pretty
exceptional.  I just ordered it -- thx for the pointer!

Your description sounds like it makes sense too.  I have looked at some
of these and there does seem to be a nice black edge defining the glass.
My guess is that you have it right here.

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- Burt Johnson
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