I don't really shoot indoors enough to justify buying a dedicated lighting rig so generally shoot by ambient window light. Here are a few examples (not great quality but they're only digital proofs to show the lab that printed cibas of the original transparencies).
All were shot with a Pentax MX SLR and 100mm f2.8 lens (to minimise perspective distortion), on the ISO50 version of the late lamented (by me at least) Agfa RSX-II pro slide stock.
The pictures were taken around five feet from a large window, its light diffused by a net curtain (left of the picture), and bounced around by two large home made reflectors made from A0 size mounting board with aluminium foil glued on. One reflector was placed to the right of the frame, the other in front, placed below the camera position. Exposure was 1 second at f11 (small aperture used to compensate for the focal length of the lens). The background was a plain piece of black velvet pinned to the wall a foot or so behind the subject, and draped over the base.
I'd get better results with a proper rig, but the total cost of this set up was around £10. When I've enough shaving kit to justify pulling a roll of my dwindling supply of RSX from the freezer I'll have another go.
All were shot with a Pentax MX SLR and 100mm f2.8 lens (to minimise perspective distortion), on the ISO50 version of the late lamented (by me at least) Agfa RSX-II pro slide stock.
The pictures were taken around five feet from a large window, its light diffused by a net curtain (left of the picture), and bounced around by two large home made reflectors made from A0 size mounting board with aluminium foil glued on. One reflector was placed to the right of the frame, the other in front, placed below the camera position. Exposure was 1 second at f11 (small aperture used to compensate for the focal length of the lens). The background was a plain piece of black velvet pinned to the wall a foot or so behind the subject, and draped over the base.
I'd get better results with a proper rig, but the total cost of this set up was around £10. When I've enough shaving kit to justify pulling a roll of my dwindling supply of RSX from the freezer I'll have another go.
