My Preciouses
Somehow, whenever I'm contemplating a semi-precious or indeed precious object, I come over all Smeagol.
We're Here and so very precious.
Tripod-mounted manually focused macro (again!) using two lights; a barndoor modified strobe on a stand and a Speedlite lying on its side (so that slave mode would work) with a blue gel resting over the lens. 1:1 crops all around with increased contrast & clarity & reduced highlights & blacks. Also a vignette for each frame. Then the composite. HSS!
*Geeks Corner*
It took me a few exposures to work out that above 1/125th the strobe (using HSS on the Canon) overpowered the Speedlite so there was no blue. I slowed down the shutter to increase exposure and Bam! Tons of blue... Thanks We're Here! Another lesson learned... ;-)
My Preciouses
Somehow, whenever I'm contemplating a semi-precious or indeed precious object, I come over all Smeagol.
We're Here and so very precious.
Tripod-mounted manually focused macro (again!) using two lights; a barndoor modified strobe on a stand and a Speedlite lying on its side (so that slave mode would work) with a blue gel resting over the lens. 1:1 crops all around with increased contrast & clarity & reduced highlights & blacks. Also a vignette for each frame. Then the composite. HSS!
*Geeks Corner*
It took me a few exposures to work out that above 1/125th the strobe (using HSS on the Canon) overpowered the Speedlite so there was no blue. I slowed down the shutter to increase exposure and Bam! Tons of blue... Thanks We're Here! Another lesson learned... ;-)