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How do I remove these shadows?
I'm testing my lighting. I have two speedlites with the same power: one at the top right corner, and one at the bottom left corner. The BL light is closer to the object, which has caused one side to have a shorter shadow. When I have both lights about the same distance the shadows are equally as long. How do I get rid of these shadows? Is it a height issue? Though, they're pretty much the same height....Should I go higher and angle the lights? (I'd test out the different possibilities but I have a fractured shoulder bone, so less moving equipment is easier ) Also, the lights aren't angled directly at the object. Mar 07 18 05:09 pm Link Do you have a low, white ceiling? Try bouncing one or both of the lights. Mar 08 18 12:17 am Link If You can, try moving the lights in closer Mar 08 18 02:27 am Link Don’t use two lights. Keep the top right one and just add a fill card (white or silver) on the oppisite side of whatever that is. USing two lights causes cross lighting AND the shadows that come with it. You may have to use a large one if your trying to keep the background the same tone all over but then again, you can fix that in post if need be. That bottom left light HAS TO be lower than the other or else you wouldn’t get that longer shadow. That’s just simple physics right there. Light travels in a straight line and doesn’t lie. If you do keep the lighting, just raise that left light up a bit. Mar 08 18 03:56 am Link Continue shooting and experiment moving the lights to different positions and heights and see what happens, and you will learn a lot. And watch this video, then do the exercise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7CcUrUD2g Mar 09 18 04:46 pm Link Select it, cut out the object and paint them out? lol Mar 14 18 07:49 am Link Bounce light to create a larger light source. Using a huge soft box or octabox can take of the problem. Mar 14 18 04:40 pm Link Read this book http://www.strandbooks.com/technique%2D … %20science Mar 14 18 06:36 pm Link Try putting the light TDC Top Dead Center over the object. Mar 14 18 06:55 pm Link Put the object on a piece of glass and have a significant distance between the background (table top) and the glass so the shadows fall further away from the subject (due to the distance between the glass and the table top). Then place/angle your lights so that the reflection of the light off the glass does not come back into the lens and casts a shadow which provides sufficient space to crop them out in post. Another option is to hang the object with thread or fishing line and hang the background well behind it and let the shadows fall away. This is the same idea as the table, but turned sideways. This way you don't need the glass and can have larger distances between object and background more easily but you have to clone out the thread/fishing line. Mar 15 18 12:10 pm Link Mar 18 18 09:27 am Link |