eumenius
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Hello friends,
today I was called as a rescue - well, looks like some excellent band playing old musical instruments (fiddles, violins, etc.) was left without the photographs of their stuff, and they are in a desperate need of some hi-quality MF slides with their instruments. They have to submit them for printing in two days (!!!), so they asked me to help them. I plan to use Fuji 64T, Mamiya C330 with 80mm lens, and two hot lights, 650W each. Okay, my question is simple - the instruments have some surface texture, and it's so important to preserve... may I use a large portrait dish reflector on a main light, and a 40cm round shoot-through litedisc on a side modelling light? I don't like the idea of a shoot-through umbrella as a main, because the light won't have this "sparkle" - and the dish gives a pleasingly soft light. Or do I really need to shoot with two well-diffused sources, like softbox and reflective umbrella? I know my questions should sound lame, but I've never done work like this in such a hurry, and I just don't know what light is more appropriate for old wood/leather/etc.
Cheers, Zhenya
today I was called as a rescue - well, looks like some excellent band playing old musical instruments (fiddles, violins, etc.) was left without the photographs of their stuff, and they are in a desperate need of some hi-quality MF slides with their instruments. They have to submit them for printing in two days (!!!), so they asked me to help them. I plan to use Fuji 64T, Mamiya C330 with 80mm lens, and two hot lights, 650W each. Okay, my question is simple - the instruments have some surface texture, and it's so important to preserve... may I use a large portrait dish reflector on a main light, and a 40cm round shoot-through litedisc on a side modelling light? I don't like the idea of a shoot-through umbrella as a main, because the light won't have this "sparkle" - and the dish gives a pleasingly soft light. Or do I really need to shoot with two well-diffused sources, like softbox and reflective umbrella? I know my questions should sound lame, but I've never done work like this in such a hurry, and I just don't know what light is more appropriate for old wood/leather/etc.

Cheers, Zhenya