Merry Christmas 2013

Season's Greetings, one and all!

 

Lots of lighting, three funky Christmas trees and a fluffy Penguin. :-)

 

Lighting

Indoors:

8 x 50W Tungsten downlights

1 x 4W LED spot (on shelving, camera-right)

5 x strings of LED lights (one on each tree, one on the shelving, one at top of centre doors)

2 x CFL fittings (one out of shot camera-left)

Outdoors:

2 x CFL bulkhead fittings with three gels in each

1 x LED light string

What might look vaguely like moonlight is not, but is provided by three radio-triggered Vivitar 283 hotshoe flashes, as follows:

One high up camera-left on stand by camera (lighting whole scene)

One high camera-right just out of frame indoors through upstairs window (lighting roof and camera-left part of scene)

One high camera-right indoors through upstairs window, pretty much in line with the ridge of the roof. This lights the roof only, and is at just the right angle to give the blue reflection from the roof tiles in the top right corner of the frame.

 

White balance set to tungsten to match indoor lighting. Flashes bare (no gels), appear blue due to tungsten WB set in camera.

Done