Recently i’ve been playing around with a few still life setups, to try to learn a bit about painting glass and metal. teacher talked about relevant issues in class, and i did a couple assignments with glass bowl and copper mug. Then i decided to try one at home on my own. Norma had equipment for a set up with a light box, and i used that. Dark material surrounding the ”subject”: a wine bottle, a bottle opener and a wine glass. With focused light source the reflections were everywhere and it was not going to work to try to take a photo. So ended up with much more diffuse light source. You can see that there are almost no shadows showing. Also, note that when you look at the reference photo, the bottle opener is quite different from the painted one. That’s because the ”real” one was just too complicated to pull off — would’ve taken me a long, long time to get that one with all its parts.
LJ and NJ 