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Originally Posted by cmhorvath
Well, as luck would have it, boss went home sick today so I took an opportunity to go shopping at lunch time for some of the clamp-on lights that you used in your tutorial. (FYI for anyone wondering - Home Depot has them for $5.95/each.)
I tried doing the photoshop routine last night, however my pictures are all on white backgrounds and unfortuantely I was unable to get pictures without shadows, so the 2nd layer of bluring didn't quite turn out right. I'm going to build the bowl setup tonight and give it another try. Any tips for doing this on white backgrounds? I prefer that over the gray gradients.
Thanks,
Cheryl
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Cheryl -
Use a 2 or 3 inch piece of an old 1/16 mandrel or a hat pin and make a 'flat' loop on the top. Put your bowl photo studio on a piece of styrofoam or an old pillow and push the pin through your backdrop into the styrofam. Either balance your bead on the loop or use a little bit of wax to hold it there. The seperation between the background and your bead will probably be enough to get it to stand out really well if you take the photo in macro mode and are close to the bead. Try that and let me know how it works.
Ev