Glass object on a metal stand

[Mike Buckley]

Another glass object from the high shelf in my sun room.

Please click to view the image at its largest size in the Lytebox to appreciate the detail.

Setup
The background and tabletop are a single sheet of translucent vellum. First capture: A medium continuous-light lamp shines on the background from the top left area of the scene. That lamp is fitted with a flag that simultaneously prevents two direct reflections from appearing in the glass subject (which later became a moot point) and adds the shadow underneath the subject. A polarizer controlled direct reflections appearing on the left edge of the glass (which later also became a moot point). Second capture: A speedlight set at full power (because the glass is dark) was on the right side shining toward the background at an angle that bounced the light back through the glass subject toward the camera. The glass subject from the second capture was merged with everything else in the first capture.

The merger rendered the direct reflections in the first capture mentioned above to be irrelevant; if I had known at the time that I was going to use two captures, I would not have bothered with the polarizer and would not have cared about the two direct reflections created by the continuous light source.

[FootLoose]

Very nice, Mike. I like the tonal gradations as well as the "texture" in the glass. The image just needs an enigmatic title.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured and composed.

[Dave Humphries]

Always good to read how you achieve these Mike

Thanks, Dave

[bnnrcn]

Very nice one Mike

[Rita]

A completely wonderful image! I like everything about it, the tones, the position of the object, the reflections, texture....I think you get the idea

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you, everyone!

I have included the above image in a new thread that is a series of three images of the same subject.