Thank you. You could have tried to make still life photography over complicated to make yourself seem self important...but your humility, skill and generous knowledge taught us simple basics that is the foundation of good lighting. I am grateful for your generosity in teaching us the simple concepts in simple terms. Easy to understand and not necessary to spend a ton of money.

That mirror thing it's brilliant! Thank you

This video has helped me so much with rare book photography! Thank you!

OMG thank you! I have been tasked with photography new medals for my wifes Etsy store and the reflections have been driving me crazy.

Thank you indeed for this straight forward, both common sense and rich professional experience based piece of advice.

Great and useful, as always, Gale. Thanks! I would add an interim step with a white or gray balance card to ensure accurate colors. Cheers!

Many thanks for this great simplified lighting tutorial Proffesor...

This video helped me to improve my photos 100%! Thank you sooo much!

Incredibly articulate and helpful information!

Many thanks, have been looking for a tutorial for exactly the same problem and this seems to explain how to go about it quite nicely.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses blu tack!
Blu tack is one of the most  important weapons in my photo arsenal!

Excellent presentation.Thanks and congratulations,

Excellent video production! The lesson on the proceedure for tabletop forensic imaging spoke volumes. Gale Spring's statement about eliminating specular highlights misleads. A small light source like the on-camera flash used by the crime scene photographer, which yields a white dot for a specular highlight has no detail in it as Mr. Dale states. Having a large light source softens the contrast of the specular highlights, which enables us to have detail in the specular highlights. The way to record the black handle of the subject knife is to spread the specular highlight over the form by using the soft light, as in this good demo. Thus, Mr. Dale ably shows his students how to control, not eliminate the specularity.

Excelent! I'm doing a museographic catalog and we have many methalic instruments wich must be photographed in detail. This video is very helpfull

Me, just looking for ways to take pics of my dope gaming rig with glass side panels: I bet youtube has some simple tricks to avoid glare in the glass.
Also me after watching a forencics technician with a whole setup specialized for this use: Yep I'm shit outta luck.

Thank you for the video, I appreciate that.

this is so good!  thank you.

Your experience and expertise was very helpful and appreciated!

THANK YOU!!! This helped me out so much with my jewelry photography.

Thank you!