This one is actually a little more complicated than it looks. The filter being shown is an infrared filter designed for special effects. If you look through it at a bright light source it is nearly black, but a little bit of red light does get through. Unfortunately, it's difficult to show that faint red tint in a product shot like this. As such, I improvised a little. The main light source is a soft box pointing down from above and behind the filter, which is functionally black. To get the red look, I put a red gel in front of the flash and angled it so the reflection of the light source was visible from the camera shooting position. Incidentally, the filter is even sitting on a black piece of paper, but it was reflective enough to pick up some of the red light as well. The text on the side was also filled with red, so I used a second, tight light source at the same level as the filter to expose the front with the right amount of light and a clean white. I shot this a while back so I don't have a version of the overall scene, but hopefully that helps visualize the setup a little.
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This is a pulled-back shot from the same basic setup as yesterday's post. It shows the location of my two lights; soft box to the left side, grid spot back and to the right. This was a pretty quick setup and I'm happy with most of how the lighting turned out. The only thing that annoys me is the angle of the shadow of my subject's ear, along the cheek. Next time I try this lighting set I'll bring the snoot further to the side, but that might mean moving the soft box further to the side as well to keep that shadow area between the main light and the edge light.
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This is part one of a two-part post. I'm going to follow it up with a pulled-back shot of the lighting used for the scene.
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