Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by soup:
well done image, and nice set up.

congrats

Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by Brenb:
Congratulations on your first and a blue. That is interesting how you set this up.

Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by Node:
An amazing shot, congratulations on your ribbon! Also thank you for sharing your setup.

Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by anireno:
Thank you all for comments. I´m very happy with my first ribbon. I´m sorry because I don´t have a shot of my original set up, but I´m going to try to explain. It´s easy but I´m a bit perfectionist and it took me near three hours to achieve the final shot.
First of all I printed a sheet with the title of the challenge. this was done using Powerpoint (for example) and then printed reversed (with the aid of a postscript printer driver)
Text
This printed text was folded and glued carefully to achieve a perfect transition in the words
Cylinder
Still we have a problem beacuse if we take a photo with this setup and look at the center of the balls we can see the body of the rebel
close-up
These are the kind of details that scores down our shots in this site. to fix this we can use this close-up to create a mask for our lens and put it at the top of the cylinder

With this trick we can hide our camera "completely".
This is a shot without backlighting

And this is the final shot with backlighting (the setup over a glass table) and without processing.

Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by sersal:
Congratulations on your first ribbon, a blue one! Imaginative reflections and great lighting. A fantastic photo.

Message edited by author 2004-12-08 02:59:49.

Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by arngrimur:
Congrats on your first ribbon. Fantastic job with reflections and light.

Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by insteps:
Congratulations on your blue.

Spherical reflections
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Comment by Shadowrain:
winner

Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by banmorn:
Superb. Great work on the the set up and an excellent image. Big congrats on your blue! RoB

Spherical reflections
by anireno

Comment by TooCool:
Very cool! I wanna see a pic of your setup.
TC