Set up

Here's the set up for the shots I took:

The photos of Wes were taken in the afternoon and a cloudy day.

no edits.

The background had to be smoothed out in post because nails holding the sheet to the wall.
In addition I used two foam core boards, a white board was on his lap and a black board was held camera right, just out of view.

The doors are the folding doors from my kids closet doors.
Enjoy

Stats:
Sb-600 full power, 55 mm
D90, f14, 1/100th, iso400, 85mm macro

Glass vs. Plastic Reflectors

Recently purchased a glass frame from walmart for 3 bucks. Was wanting to make this:

So I could do this:

Ok, so the black bottom piece in the top photo was replaces by white foam core board for the picture of the butterfly.  With black:

But decided to try it as:

The bottom piece in my super secret macro set up used in many of my reflection pictures seen here:



This is achieved by using a hint from Larry.

my normal set up looks something similar to:

I now use a piece of black foam core for the back ground to avoid getting a variety of color reflections as seen:

(even though I do think this one is cool.)

But, my plastic is getting scratched I keep seeing things like this:

So, I gave the glass a try:

and

I didn't like the double refraction. So I went back to the plastic base:



Ahhh...Clean reflection.

Set up Summary:

2 boxes of baby wipes, painted black.

1 poster frame, painted black.

1 white foam board.

1 11X17 picture frame with black mat.

D90, 85 macro, 2 sb600's and 1 sb700.

Enjoy.