richardmayoff
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I am going to be photographing large rotisseries (very large BBQs) that cook 12 chickens on a steel spike at the same time. These units are used at Cosco etc and other large supermarkets.
The exterior of the units are all stainless steel, and there is a flame seen behind the chickens through the closed glass doors of one of the units coking the chickens. The glass doors need to be closed. The chickens will not be turning but already cooked.. I need to be able to capture the unit, chickens & flame with no reflections in the stainless. My thought was to use numerous white 4 x 8 foam cores to block the reflections around the reflective parts of the stainless steel rotisseries. I am also thinking of using 2 or 3 daylight balanced flash monoblock units with umbrellas to light everything and then a bit of a time exposure to capture the flame. There are fluorescents (not many or strong but approx 25 feet up on the ceiling. I also have Lowen tungsten lamps, but they get very hot to work with. If I use the Tungsten lighting do I need to use a Gel to balance the fluorescents with the tungsten lights?
Naturally I want the colors to be proper due to the florescents.. I plan on making some kind of a box taping the foam cores to each other and hopefully putting 1 over the top of the rotisserie to block the fluorescents from affecting the colors. I will shoot in Raw so I can do some color corrections if necessary in Photoshop.
My Question.
Does this seem like the proper route to take? Which lighting system would you use?
Many thanks
Richard
The exterior of the units are all stainless steel, and there is a flame seen behind the chickens through the closed glass doors of one of the units coking the chickens. The glass doors need to be closed. The chickens will not be turning but already cooked.. I need to be able to capture the unit, chickens & flame with no reflections in the stainless. My thought was to use numerous white 4 x 8 foam cores to block the reflections around the reflective parts of the stainless steel rotisseries. I am also thinking of using 2 or 3 daylight balanced flash monoblock units with umbrellas to light everything and then a bit of a time exposure to capture the flame. There are fluorescents (not many or strong but approx 25 feet up on the ceiling. I also have Lowen tungsten lamps, but they get very hot to work with. If I use the Tungsten lighting do I need to use a Gel to balance the fluorescents with the tungsten lights?
Naturally I want the colors to be proper due to the florescents.. I plan on making some kind of a box taping the foam cores to each other and hopefully putting 1 over the top of the rotisserie to block the fluorescents from affecting the colors. I will shoot in Raw so I can do some color corrections if necessary in Photoshop.
My Question.
Does this seem like the proper route to take? Which lighting system would you use?
Many thanks
Richard