Back Lit Old Weathered Sea Shell
This old weathered shell is one I brought back from one of our many trips to Baja California, Mexico over the years.

Lighting:  The first thing I did was clean the shell and then give it a light coating of vegetable oil.  This was a two light setup.  The main light was a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box hand held at camera right and the other was a second Yongnuo manual flash for back lighting in a Rogue grid at camera left behind the shell.  The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.

Other shells,  flowers, fruit or stuff that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1500 of them,  I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot.  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/</a>

 Other shells that I have photographed over the years are in my creatively named Shells album.  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290</a>
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