[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)...



By marked001 at 2008-12-04]

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.

[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 !

[Bubbaloo]

You married that guy on the A-Team?

[Tea_Bag]

You married that guy on the A-Team?

[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.

[Stinkie7000]

You married that guy on the A-Team?

I'm thinking Jason's wife either has a mohawk or is afraid of flying.

[Bubbaloo]

The diamonds look better with the dark background.

[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?

[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.

[marked001]

thanks Blitzor...going to try that now..

unfortunately, its back to a white background because they cannot digitally print on a black shirt :-/

[def4d]

I wanna see the progress

[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

[def4d]

ok but would you finish it for us?

[marked001]

i have lower standards than you guys.

[def4d]

Impossible, you wouldn't be on this forum