The old rig brought out

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Lighting refinement practice on some bottles:

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Did this one back around '99 or '00 possibly for the Las Vegas Classic. With the stay at home stuff I'm planning on another dagger project.

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Not much of my usual. Getting some practice in on these:

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Not the old rig for this one, one of the later strip boxes. Mainly for bottle shots for the gradient. It does ok for knives and the silver lining dials up the contrast a bit more.

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Some playing around to see what various lighting placement does. This is a three light shot. Easy to do composites though for me the challenge is to get it in one take so that post processing is simplified.

Jim Sornberger- 20'th annual, 1999 Bay Area Knife Collectors Association club knife.

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Affordable, easy to keep sharp and if lost damaged one doesn't feel to bad. This was shot using the old rig. Much softer lighting unlike the above.

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More practice: