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For the technically curious, the full lighting setup consisted essentially of a 3 speedlights rig mounted on a 16 inch hot shoe railing extension, with red, blue and green color gels to achieve both white light on the overlapping lit areas and colored shadows where the respective lights diverged based on their difference in distance to the object. The camera body used was a Fujifilm X-T3, and the Fujinon 80mm F2.8 Macro was the lens of choice. The whole shoot was done tethered to Capture 1, which greatly helped simplify the capture and review process.

In regards to the postproduction, we shot multiple exposures to have the flexibility to blend different lightings setups to achieve a nice, elegant final result.