With cabin fever raging last weekend, I decided to photograph some of my
wife's Japanese dolls. She doesn't really collect them but her mother
passed them to her at some point. There are also some kokeishi dolls (wood
figures) that a friend of mine gave us when she was cleaning out her
parents' things -- souvenirs from a trip to Japan.
Equipment: E-5 with Leica D 14-150, two T32s with Olympus dedicated ND
filters.
Setup: pretty simple. flashes equidistant from subject, flash on the
right the main light, fill ratio (1 stop) controlled by the ND filter
difference. The flashes were not tethered. The main light was actually a
slave (but I could have easily done it the other way around). The fill
light was off-camera, connected to the shoe with a shoe cord.
Variants: there is one lit entirely by north window light and no flash.
The large kokeishi group is ambient lighting with bounced fill (off the
ceiling).
Personally, my favorite is the one without flash. :( The setup seems
pretty easy and effective to me, but controlling background is a
challenge. I used colored foam boards about half the time, which then
makes shadows a factor. This one and to the right:
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=11692
C & C welcome. TIA.
Joel W.
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