This is probably one of the best photos I've ever taken for a challenge, I have even better photos in my portfolio, but none were ever taken for a challenge. This was a bit difficult to do. I wanted a shinny glass surface to reflect the pennies. So I dug around the house for a while and finally settled on taking the glass layer out of a framed photo for a while. I also found a black sheet of posterboard I normally use to control light, a table, one 40 watt clamp light (it's basicallly a scoop) and a white dry erase board as a reflector. Oh, and I also searched a while for the cleanest pennies I had laying around my room. I set the black posterboard up on table which was next to a book shelf, this let me curve the backgdrop. I put the glass on top of the posterboard that was on the table, and used a dress shirt to clean it up. Dust is so annoying in macro photos like this! I would take an exposure, then zoom in to examine for dust missed, I got everything I could. I always have my camera hooked up to a properly set NTSC monitor for shoots like this, so this helped a bunch. The lighting came in from the right side, diffused by notebook paper and was filled via my dry erase board "Ghetto Reflector". I also sleightly warm balanced my camera to give the image more accurate color. Reflections a very tricky, its what you don't light that counts. I did my best to keep all light off of the glass, and only let light hit what I wanted to have a reflection in the glass. As a result I had to cover the book shelf with the black posterboard to prevent it from showing up. I almost taped paper mony to it, but I sided with simplicity for this challenge. I'll play with that some other time. As a last note, I used the smallest possible aperture on my lens to increase my Depth of Field. And thats that!
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