Alfa Romeo Spider 1:18

Yesterday I added some parts to the photographic table. I bought a black cloth and two 500watt lights and a sheet of Plexiglas. this is to enable me to not only shoot on a white surface, but also on black and the Plexiglas is to give me the reflections. Not to test this, I placed one of my beloved Alfa Romeo model cars on the Plexglas (after much dusting I have to admit) and try some shots. I personally like to be able to use small apertures to get as much sharpness and to see if then I still get well lit images. I can always go to larger apertures afterwards.

The first thing I noticed is that 2x 500watt isn’t nearly enough for a 100mm f/22.0 shot, it will still produce fully black images at low ISO’s (and you do want low ISO settings). So eventually after trying some various things, I added the 580EX flash to the camera and started shooting with that. That helped. A lot!

I still need to fine-tune and I do believe I’ll need a different cloth as this one shows the thread in the images (not so much after editing, but then I did some hard post-editing on these photos), but I am happy with the results and believe I’ll be able to put the table to good use, especially in rainy days

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