Today I spent some time experimenting with using off-camera flash to light objects. I'm trying to learn how to light from different angles and use reflective cards to limit shadows and highlights. Here are a few I thought worthy of posting.
A carved turtle:
And the setup; I fired the strobe into the white card so the turtle would be lit from camera left.
This is a detail shot of an album liner. I angled the flash low to show the texture of the paper.
It took forever to get that quarter to stand up.