First thing was to place a black Bristol board on the table and then place a clear nylon sheet on top of it. (Actually, the first step was to convert my leaving living room table into a portable studio, but the wife was asleep so we were fine with it).
Then I placed the doll on the table and adjusted my Nikon SB 26 with a gelled gridspot and a radio slave. I set the flash to tightest zoom so the flash and gridspot will work together. (No point in having the flash on wide if I am trying to restrict light).
If you look at the setup image, you’ll also notice it is yellow – this is the light coming from the the leaving room lamp. I didn’t care much about it as I used high shutter speed, so only “flash light” made any impact on the sensor.
