On 2013-04-22, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

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Green is green, Gunner... even in digital. The boon, though, is you can
re-balance the colors in "post edit" (call it "the digital darkroom").

Or -- at least with some digital cameras (Nikon D-70 and D-300s
in my personal experience) you can set a menu item and then shoot an 18%
gray card in the same lighting, and use that as a color balance setting
in the camera so you don't have to do much in the post-processing.

I've done tons of product photos. Thousands. You don't need a light
box; just a good seamless backdrop and several stand-mounted floods.
They don't even have to be "photo floods" -- just lights. Use foil
reflectors for unwanted shadows.

And for really small subjects (bugs, small components, screws,
etc), you can drape a hankerchief over a wire frame (bent up from a
couple of coathangers), put two or three lights outside it, and get very
smooth and even lighting. Use the in-camera white balance to adjust for
light color -- with the 18% gray card if you need it. Usually the
automatic white balance will be pretty good -- unless your subject is
predomently a single color and a large percentage of the frame.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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