Handmade glass beads – P365 Oct24

A couple of days ago, you saw photos of Naomi and I making glass beads. Above you can see the results! In the spirit of learning how to light my photos, and in the hope that others can learn from my experiments, I'm going to try and provide set-up photos more often. The main light is a Canon 580EX mounted directly above the beads, with my home-made mini light box, which diffuses the light over an A4 sheet of white paper. To fill the shadows a little and add another highlight to help show the shape, I added a shoot through umbrella with a Vivitar 285HV. The 580EX is powered by an external 6V SLA battery simply because the AA batteries had run flat.