I like to use cloudy bright / overcast natural light for this kind of thing.
And, depending on the fossil, you might try wetting them down a little
[definitely flat lighting if you do this].
From: "Douglas M. Sharp" Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, LeicaReflex ,Leica Users Group Subject: [LRFlex] Fossils and Minerals - help! Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:50:23 +0100
I've been trying to get some decent shots of fossils and stuff I collected in the UK over the past couple of years. Somehow they just don't seem right to me.
Any suggestions please on a) lighting b) backgrounds c) point of focus - front, middle or ???
Taken with a Leica Macro-Elmarit 100/4 at f16
I've seen transparent crystals shot against black velvet backgrounds and they seem to have an "inner light" how do I get this effect?
Would very much appreciate any ideas, hints or references. Douglas
http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/pyrites2 Iron Pyrites with natural lighting from left, artificial from back right.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Pyrites_copy Iron Pyrites with natural lighting from left, artificial from back right. b/w version
http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Ammonites_copy Bedded ammonites (8mm diameter) lit from top left, normal room lighting.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/ammonite cross-section of a filed chamber in an ammonite fossil, daylight from left
http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/ammonites Raw and cut and polished ammonites - showing external and internal structure daylight from left
http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/urchins
with this last shot I'm trying to show the similarity of a fossilised sea urchin and a modern one. I've tried all sorts of angles and lighting but it is always just dead boring. It just doesn't work.
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