Photo Studio-In-A-Box: Test #2

I thought some of the problems with the previous photo might be that the lights were too high, so I set them on the floor, the left light aimed at the top of the figure, the right light at the lower half. Since the card table was still set up, setting the lights on the floor spread them apart to some degree.

Well, it didn't work at all - almost everything got worse. Even after tweaking it in iPhoto and Photoshop, the bottom seam and fabric are still pretty clear. The back shadows are all over the place, and the good ones (like the one under the hat brim) are a lot weaker. Ugh! I guess I'll try moving the card table out of the way, and placing them closer together next time, as well as a little closer to the cube and the figure. The figure's color is different because I tweaked the 'temperature' sliders in iPhoto.

To be honest, I'm not even sure that I've got the cube set up properly. Maybe there's a better way to postion it so the seams son't show as much. The other potential tactic is to figure out the proper focal length to keep the figure in focus and blur out the background. I took a community college photography course a while back, but most of that has totally fallen out of my head!