Breizh, ma bro
This is a pin–sized Breton flag (less than 2 cm in length), and in the Breton language, “Breizh” is “Brittany”. Breizh, ma bro means “Brittany, my country”. Pinned on my caban, which is a short wool overcoat typical of Brittany, and which was originally designed for Navy officers to wear at sea.
So, there is my “Z”! Shot for my Macro Mondays group, theme “Zed”. Consider yourselves lucky I haven’t chosen to pull out an old ugly photo of Sean Connery as “Zed”, the main character in that unforgettable movie, Zardoz... ;o)
Composite shot made of 5 focus–stacked exposures. Focus set manually with a NiSi NM–180 focusing rail.
Strobist and technical: One Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in backlit position, 2 meters from subject and 1.3 meters above it, firing at ½ power through a Phottix Pro 110–cm Luna octabox with double diffuser; and two Phottix Pro Mitros+ cobra flashes, one of either side of subject and 1 meter from it, firing at ½ power through their standard built–in diffuser.
Strobes set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the Nikon Z7 hotshoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Gitzo GR3543XLS tripod with Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Nikon Z7 camera body, Laowa CA–Dreamer 100mm f/2.8 macro 2× lens, manual focus.
Breizh, ma bro
This is a pin–sized Breton flag (less than 2 cm in length), and in the Breton language, “Breizh” is “Brittany”. Breizh, ma bro means “Brittany, my country”. Pinned on my caban, which is a short wool overcoat typical of Brittany, and which was originally designed for Navy officers to wear at sea.
So, there is my “Z”! Shot for my Macro Mondays group, theme “Zed”. Consider yourselves lucky I haven’t chosen to pull out an old ugly photo of Sean Connery as “Zed”, the main character in that unforgettable movie, Zardoz... ;o)
Composite shot made of 5 focus–stacked exposures. Focus set manually with a NiSi NM–180 focusing rail.
Strobist and technical: One Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in backlit position, 2 meters from subject and 1.3 meters above it, firing at ½ power through a Phottix Pro 110–cm Luna octabox with double diffuser; and two Phottix Pro Mitros+ cobra flashes, one of either side of subject and 1 meter from it, firing at ½ power through their standard built–in diffuser.
Strobes set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the Nikon Z7 hotshoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Gitzo GR3543XLS tripod with Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Nikon Z7 camera body, Laowa CA–Dreamer 100mm f/2.8 macro 2× lens, manual focus.