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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822293" data-attributes="member: 53455">Thank you both for your feedback, it is good to know what fellow forum members like so that one can try to provide it.Regarding the books photo, I must admit with great shame that I could not find the setup info. I see from my tags on Flickr that I used my pair of Indra500 studio strobes (monolights), one with a 110-cm Luna octabox, the other with a 150-cm Raja deep parabolic softbox. A Mitros+ cobra flash was also involved, all of them controlled by an Odin II controller on the Z7 —all of the above products by Phottix. I must have, of course, used my Sekonic light meter to balance the three light sources but I do not know more, except that it was a 14-shot focus-stacked composite assembled in Helicon Focus software. Cardboard reflectors must have been used, too, but I’ll be damned if I can remember how and where (this photo is from September 2019).There was a 2½ years period during which I had just retired but my wife was still working, and while I was alone at home during the day, I passionately took to exploring tabletop photography in the studio and lighting by flash. As I already mentioned, I found the Light: Science & Magic book by Hunter, Biver and Fuqua to be extremely helpful (interested people will find it on Amazon, and I’m sure in any good photo bookstore). There are also tons of tutorials on Youtube, some not as good as others... I obtained results which I thought were quite satisfactory (one always thinks one’s children are the most beautiful and intelligent, of course), which helped me tremendously when I took up serious museum work later, on behalf of my heritage foundations.This is an example of “museum work” I did at home as a training exercise on a mid–19th century wakizashi (a shorter version of the Japanese katana saber) in ivory and gold. This museum-caliber antique was brought back from Japan by an American soldier at the end of WW II (God only knows how he procured it) and given by him to my father, who had joined the US Army as well, although how that GI in the Pacific region in 1945 came to be in late-war or post-war contact with my Dad who had joined in France at age 22 in 1944 always remained a mystery...That photograph was taken with the Nikkor 50mm ƒ/1.8 S lens and is also a focus-stacked composite of 14 exposures stitched with Helicon Focus. No info on the lighting beyond what I already mentioned above for the books photo.[ATTACH=full]408286[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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