snorkie128
Portrait 272
Day 272 of 365
"Portrait 272"
Sometimes photographers have to steal. Sometimes it is a concept, sometimes it is a crayon. Today's subject is a stolen crayon. Thank you, Mikey and Christina. If you are missing a crayon, I may know where it is. The inspiration for today's image was the technique of focus stacking. What you are looking at is a layering of about ten different images. Each one is focused on a specific part of the frame. When stacked upon one another, the image appears to be in focus, from top to bottom (or front to back). The reason for this technique? Well, when using a macro lens, there is a very small area in focus at a time when in so close to one's subject. The final image worked for the most part, though there are small areas where the image is still out of focus. If I were to have doubled the number of images, the photograph would have been considerably sharper. As for the lighting, there are three strobes working here. Our key light is a strip bank at camera-left, lighting our hero crayon. I filled in the shadows on the camera-right side with a piece of foamcore. There is a second strobe with a pink gel working the white background. Lastly, there is a finely snooted speedlight making the ball of light behind the crayon, in the center of the pink well. Thanks for focusing on this for a moment!!
#focusstacking #crayon #crayola #was #draw #drawing #macro #productphotography #canon5dmarkIII #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #softbox #canon580exII #canon100macro
Portrait 272
Day 272 of 365
"Portrait 272"
Sometimes photographers have to steal. Sometimes it is a concept, sometimes it is a crayon. Today's subject is a stolen crayon. Thank you, Mikey and Christina. If you are missing a crayon, I may know where it is. The inspiration for today's image was the technique of focus stacking. What you are looking at is a layering of about ten different images. Each one is focused on a specific part of the frame. When stacked upon one another, the image appears to be in focus, from top to bottom (or front to back). The reason for this technique? Well, when using a macro lens, there is a very small area in focus at a time when in so close to one's subject. The final image worked for the most part, though there are small areas where the image is still out of focus. If I were to have doubled the number of images, the photograph would have been considerably sharper. As for the lighting, there are three strobes working here. Our key light is a strip bank at camera-left, lighting our hero crayon. I filled in the shadows on the camera-right side with a piece of foamcore. There is a second strobe with a pink gel working the white background. Lastly, there is a finely snooted speedlight making the ball of light behind the crayon, in the center of the pink well. Thanks for focusing on this for a moment!!
#focusstacking #crayon #crayola #was #draw #drawing #macro #productphotography #canon5dmarkIII #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #softbox #canon580exII #canon100macro