[geeks] Photography experimenting

[Erie Patsellis]

Bill,
Looks pretty decent for a first shot. I would find some black and white 
cards and use them for fill reflectors and flags. I often find a thin 
strip of black matt board does wonders to define shapes when using this 
style of lighting.

erie

Bill Bradford wrote:
> Yesterday, went and bought a couple of clamp lights and a couple of
> 60W-equivalent daylight-spectrum CFL bulbs.
>
> Today, made some ghetto diffusers out of tracing paper.
>
> Laid some more white paper on my desktop, put the lights on either side,
> and did some basic testing (camera is a Canon S3 IS, with lens adapter and
> a circular PL filter and a UV filter).
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/sets/72157614989543734/
>
> Thoughts?  Comments?
>
> I'm thinking of moving up to 75 or 100W-equivalent bulbs, and am going to
> rig some proper light stands.  I've also ordered this book:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Photography-9th-MyPhotographyKit-Barbara-London/dp/0131752
> +014
>
> Suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> Bill