Circles of gold
Not very original, I’ll admit: after doing cufflinks last week for the “Pairs” theme, I’m doing cufflinks again (albeit different ones) this week for “Circles”.
S.T. Dupont of Paris gold and onyx cufflinks from the late 1980s. Camicissima cotton shirt for background (a different one as well!).
Single exposure. I wanted some depth of field and some bokeh, and I wanted the sharp area to follow the orientation of the shirt sleeve, so I used my newly–acquired Micro–Nikkor 85mm f/2.8 tilt–shift lens: I rotated it about 40 degrees left to place the plane of focus where I wanted it, then tilted the lens almost 7 degrees to achieve the amount of depth of field I thought was needed. Even though it is labeled “Micro–Nikkor”, that lens can only achieve a 1:2 reproduction ratio natively, and so I had to use a 45–mm Fotodiox Pro extension tube too.
Strobist and technical: One Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera left, 2 meters from subject and 1 meter above it, firing horizontally at 1/8 and ⅔ power through a Phottix Pro 110–cm Luna octabox with double diffuser. Large white card reflector to camera right.
Strobe set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the Nikon Z7 hot shoe, manual mode. Gitzo GT3543 XLS tripod with Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Nikon Z7 camera body, Micro–Nikkor 85mm f/2.8 PC–E tilt–shift lens, manual focus. FTZ adapter and Fotodiox Pro 45–mm extension tube.
Circles of gold
Not very original, I’ll admit: after doing cufflinks last week for the “Pairs” theme, I’m doing cufflinks again (albeit different ones) this week for “Circles”.
S.T. Dupont of Paris gold and onyx cufflinks from the late 1980s. Camicissima cotton shirt for background (a different one as well!).
Single exposure. I wanted some depth of field and some bokeh, and I wanted the sharp area to follow the orientation of the shirt sleeve, so I used my newly–acquired Micro–Nikkor 85mm f/2.8 tilt–shift lens: I rotated it about 40 degrees left to place the plane of focus where I wanted it, then tilted the lens almost 7 degrees to achieve the amount of depth of field I thought was needed. Even though it is labeled “Micro–Nikkor”, that lens can only achieve a 1:2 reproduction ratio natively, and so I had to use a 45–mm Fotodiox Pro extension tube too.
Strobist and technical: One Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera left, 2 meters from subject and 1 meter above it, firing horizontally at 1/8 and ⅔ power through a Phottix Pro 110–cm Luna octabox with double diffuser. Large white card reflector to camera right.
Strobe set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the Nikon Z7 hot shoe, manual mode. Gitzo GT3543 XLS tripod with Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Nikon Z7 camera body, Micro–Nikkor 85mm f/2.8 PC–E tilt–shift lens, manual focus. FTZ adapter and Fotodiox Pro 45–mm extension tube.