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Old 2015-04-07, 9:46pm
Doug Baldwin Doug Baldwin is offline
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If you switch the lighting over the bead instead of at the sides, you'll move the reflection as well. You can see this effect by shutting off one of your side light boxes and picking up the other one and hold it so the diffuser is parallel with the table and pointing down at the bead. See the reflection in the top of the bead? Add some fill cards on either side and take a shot. That's the effect you'll get with the other lighting system. Working with reflections is a matter of keeping the light boxes as close together as possible, filling in all the gaps with white reflector cards AND recognizing that glass is reflective. If you entirely remove all reflections from a glass surface it then looks matte or non-glossy.

Another solution would be to create a seamless tube out of frosted mylar or matte drafting film that the bead sits in and the light boxes are on the outside of. This will create a seamless (or as close as we're going to get) lighting around the bead. Think of the bead sitting in a soup can made of frosted material and you're looking in the end of the can at the bead. Tape the mylar/film together with scotch tape to create the tube. Try that before you buy another lighting system.
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