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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 2077141, member: 17469&quot;]Thanks for all the great input Chris. FYI I was a pro sports photographer for ~8 years, so while I do know my camera, I&#039;ve never shot things that didn&#039;t move, were so close to me, and required such accurate lighting. So a good piece of this is new for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you&#039;re right on, I need to get my arms around the lighting. I&#039;ve attached a pic of my setting so you can see what I&#039;ve been doing, but the info you&#039;ve given thus far is telling me what I need to do next. I&#039;m shooting with a 100W warm incandescent bulb, but a fair bit of daylight coming in too. I will go grab a daylight color bulb, close the blinds, and try again. I would like to figure out the lighting with one light before I add a second, but it does seem like I&#039;m getting a bit too much contrast between the light and dark areas, that a second light may correct. It could very well also be that adding something to soften the light would help. The lampshade didn&#039;t <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully a daylight bulb will also minimize the WB correction which I assumed would &quot;fix everything&quot; and appears to be more of an issue (ie the blue parts of the slab) than I thought. The more &quot;correct&quot; light to begin with, the better, is what I&#039;m hearing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again, Dave[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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