Confused about custom white balance

[tirediron]

Is that real patent leather, or plastic?

I would start by placing one light on each side about 50-60 degrees off of lens axis and quite close to the bag (reducing output as necessary of course) so that what you have is a broad ellipse of light hitting the bag from each side. I might also try a polarizing filter to see if that helped.

 

[Quovadis]

Is that real patent leather, or plastic?

I would start by placing one light on each side about 50-60 degrees off of lens axis and quite close to the bag (reducing output as necessary of course) so that what you have is a broad ellipse of light hitting the bag from each side. I might also try a polarizing filter to see if that helped.

Plastic but Coach calls it patent leather.

 

[Quovadis]

this was two lights here at a 30 deg angle. But they are high up looking down.
It was shot at s 1/100

 

[tirediron]

Is that real patent leather, or plastic?

I would start by placing one light on each side about 50-60 degrees off of lens axis and quite close to the bag (reducing output as necessary of course) so that what you have is a broad ellipse of light hitting the bag from each side. I might also try a polarizing filter to see if that helped.

Plastic but Coach calls it patent leather.

Okay, that's considerably more of a PIA because of how reflective it is, but it's doable.

 

[astroNikon]

i'm waiting for him to photography a purse with millions of those small mirrors sewn all over it.

 

[Quovadis]

is this correct?
Both lights are close to the bag.
Is the angle correct?

 

[tirediron]

I would move the lights so that the vertical part of the stands are touching the edge of the table and rotate them so that the light is flowing almost parallel to the face of the bag.

 

[Quovadis]

I would move the lights so that the vertical part of the stands are touching the edge of the table and rotate them so that the light is flowing almost parallel to the face of the bag.

Thanks
URGENT QUESTION
i just noticed that changing S peed does hardly nothing. Before with cf'l's any change in faster SS gave me a darker image and vice versa, not with strobes I can go from s 1/100 in the opposite direction and the picture does not get brighter at all....please explain

 

[tirediron]

Shutter speed has no affect on flash (as long as you stay below your maximum sync speed)* because the duration of the flash is very short; as little as 1/10,000 of a second (for your units probably more like 1/800 - 1/2000) so, because the shutter is fully open before the flash fires, and doesn't begin to close until the flash has completed firing, it has no affect. Aperture and ISO are your exposure controls for flash exposures.

*Unless it gets so slow that the ambient light begins to affect it.

 

[Quovadis]

Angled them on the side and this is what I got. Front of bag is dark

 

[tirediron]

Okay, so start bringing them back toward the camera. Don't forget your presentation; there's a nasty wrinkle/dent in the left bottom corner of that bag.

 

[Quovadis]

Shutter speed has no affect on flash (as long as you stay below your maximum sync speed)* because the duration of the flash is very short; as little as 1/10,000 of a second (for your units probably more like 1/800 - 1/2000) so, because the shutter is fully open before the flash fires, and doesn't begin to close until the flash has completed firing, it has no affect. Aperture and ISO are your exposure controls for flash exposures.

*Unless it gets so slow that the ambient light begins to affect it.

So the only way to control a light or dark image is to change strobe intensity? My F11 is set in stone. Iso pretty much at 100

 

[tirediron]

Shutter speed has no affect on flash (as long as you stay below your maximum sync speed)* because the duration of the flash is very short; as little as 1/10,000 of a second (for your units probably more like 1/800 - 1/2000) so, because the shutter is fully open before the flash fires, and doesn't begin to close until the flash has completed firing, it has no affect. Aperture and ISO are your exposure controls for flash exposures.

*Unless it gets so slow that the ambient light begins to affect it.

So the only way to control a light or dark image is to change strobe intensity? My F11 is set in stone. Iso pretty much at 100

If you don't want to change the aperture or ISO, then yep, adding or reducing light is it.

 

[Quovadis]

well.. i think for this frontal shot the ceiling works better.
Now I have to give the bag a tad more light in front. Maybe ISO 200. I have no reflectors yet...have not gotten to that stage...Duh!
This is the sort of bag you would give to your worst enemy to photograph..."Go! do it and come back when you succeed", you would probably not see him for the next year.

 

[tirediron]

You may want to try adding a third light as fill, on axis and aimed down about 30-40 degrees.