Fear Not (BTS) (Patreon)

I actually started this photoshoot taking images of the helmet on its own! I had seen plenty of other photos on flickr already with unnecessary reflections on the helmet, and I wanted to eliminate anything I could. This was really more of a test to see how this piece photographed before going to the big set-up. ...Coincidentally it made a great preview image :P

But basically I created a very poor light-box using four pieces of white paper, one of them on my camera lens, to hide any reflections of my fingers holding the camera :P

Moving my LED lamp around also gave me some great reflections and textures! Even going so far as to get light bouncing off the helmet and shining into the lens! It was so cool that I had to take some photos of the DLSR screen to prove it wasn't photoshoped :P