lighting cylinder shapes - help

icondigital · Oct 29, 2005

i need help with ideas on lighting cylinder shapes (billiard cues) with as little glare and as much detail as possible. i'm currently using flourescent lights in enclosed cases with a frosted cover at both ends of the cue and raise the cue about a foot from the background. also have used a circular polarizer. i'm still finding that i am not getting enough light to bring out detail without a lot of photoshop time. the only ideas i have to improve right now are doubling the lighting and the ends of the cue and or adding an led strip light that is advertised as closest thing to daylight

any ideas would be much appreciated.
thanks! :blushing:

billiard cue forearm
http://www.iconcue.com/images/dpk002.coco.nose.1.0.gif

billiard cue butt end
http://www.iconcue.com/images/dpk002.coco.butt.1.0.gif

Rob · Oct 29, 2005

You could try a light tent with 500W or 1000W halogen floods, or perhaps two or three floods with white reflector boards?

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/19002.html

icondigital · Oct 29, 2005

robhesketh said:
You could try a light tent with 500W or 1000W halogen floods, or perhaps two or three floods with white reflector boards?

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/19002.html

i have a tent i tried with poor results due to not enough light. but they are such a pain to work with as well! maybe i should get the halogens and give it another try!

thanks