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gold chain + diamonds
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:49 pm
by marked001
here's the idea... making a tshirt for my wife for xmas.. her nickname is BA and i thought it would be funny to recreate someting like this DC shirt (or the Big Black BB shirts)...
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any idea how to get some more refraction in the diamonds? its in a studio setup right now with softbox mxi's on 5 sides... thanks.
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:02 pm
by tokiop
To make diamond shine you should need less softboxes and a lot of small emitters, because what makes the diamond shine is contrast as much a the light itself. Currently the lignting looks very uniform ! Maybe a black bg could help to compare to the reference !
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:28 pm
by Bubbaloo
You married that guy on the A-Team?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:30 pm
by Tea_Bag
Bubbaloo wrote:You married that guy on the A-Team?
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:04 am
by marked001
come on....mr. t's the man!
actually, she'll probably never even wear the shirt..haha..
added a bunch of emitters.. and lost some of the softboxes.. think the diamonds read a little better.
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:58 am
by Stinkie7000
Bubbaloo wrote:You married that guy on the A-Team?
I'm thinking Jason's wife either has a mohawk or is afraid of flying.
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:28 am
by Bubbaloo
The diamonds look better with the dark background.
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:53 am
by marked001
seems to be that maybe the emitters arent really doing much for the diamonds though.. there are like 6 small round emitters on varying angles...right thing to do?
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:38 am
by Blitzor
You need about 75% of the space above the diamonds covered in hdri/mxi softbox emitters, and 25% of darkness to bring out the scintilation in the diamonds... Make 1-2 emitters small and the rest big as suggested above. Don't overlap the emitters either.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:11 am
by marked001
thanks Blitzor...going to try that now..
unfortunately, its back to a white background because they cannot digitally print on a black shirt :-/
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:55 pm
by def4d
I wanna see the progress
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:31 pm
by marked001
haha..that was probalby the best it got :-/ the amount of detail that can be printed on a shirt is pretty minimal anyway...doesnt look great, but she laughed..thats what counts
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:36 pm
by def4d
ok but would you finish it for us?
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:39 pm
by marked001
i have lower standards than you guys.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:48 pm
by def4d
Impossible, you wouldn't be on this forum
