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Miniature Viking Ship Uncropped Version
For my treasured item I photographed a souvenir from Norway, where I lived years ago.
I will never forget the first time I visited the famous Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It felt like I had stepped back in time as I stood next to the gigantic Oseberg Viking Ship. Now with this trinket in hand, I wondered how I might breathe fresh life into it.
Photoshoot Setup
I filled a cookie sheet with water, dropped in some blue coloring, elevated the tiny model ship on a water bottle cap (secured with gum). I placed black cardboard cutouts and wool for figurines. I added a couple of two-inch rocks behind the boat and sprinkled flour over the rocks and boat for a snowy effect. To make the rocks look larger, I used my Tokina 100 mm lens. (Incidently the rocks were from Hammerfest, Norway, the northernmost town in Europe).
In Camera Method:
Using a tripod and shooting in manual mode and focus, I set the self timer for 10 seconds. Then I turned on a hairdryer to create waves. I repeated this process several times while adjusting the focus in small increments for focus stacking.
Lighting Method:
I encased a Godox V1n in a 24 inch beauty dish softbox, positioned it overhead, triggered with a Godox radio transmitter. I used my iPad in the background on a neutral gray colored background for illumination (but that didn’t work out too well because the ipad kept falling asleep). On camera right I had a gridded kicker light snoot, gelled with blue, for a rim light. I used a black flag Camera left for shadowing and silver reflector on the frontal right.
In Photoshop:
I aligned and blended four focus stacked layers. I coloured the sail, ship and water with hue saturation layers and LUTS, then sharpened. I cropped in tightly another version for the 3 inch rule for Macro Monday.
This is the un cropped version which I’ve edited even further.
Hope you enjoyed. You can view my cropped version in the link below. Which version do you prefer? flic.kr/p/2mMNbGz
Tusen takk! (Thousand Thanks in Norwegian)
Tags #Macro #Treasured
Miniature Viking Ship Uncropped Version
For my treasured item I photographed a souvenir from Norway, where I lived years ago.
I will never forget the first time I visited the famous Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It felt like I had stepped back in time as I stood next to the gigantic Oseberg Viking Ship. Now with this trinket in hand, I wondered how I might breathe fresh life into it.
Photoshoot Setup
I filled a cookie sheet with water, dropped in some blue coloring, elevated the tiny model ship on a water bottle cap (secured with gum). I placed black cardboard cutouts and wool for figurines. I added a couple of two-inch rocks behind the boat and sprinkled flour over the rocks and boat for a snowy effect. To make the rocks look larger, I used my Tokina 100 mm lens. (Incidently the rocks were from Hammerfest, Norway, the northernmost town in Europe).
In Camera Method:
Using a tripod and shooting in manual mode and focus, I set the self timer for 10 seconds. Then I turned on a hairdryer to create waves. I repeated this process several times while adjusting the focus in small increments for focus stacking.
Lighting Method:
I encased a Godox V1n in a 24 inch beauty dish softbox, positioned it overhead, triggered with a Godox radio transmitter. I used my iPad in the background on a neutral gray colored background for illumination (but that didn’t work out too well because the ipad kept falling asleep). On camera right I had a gridded kicker light snoot, gelled with blue, for a rim light. I used a black flag Camera left for shadowing and silver reflector on the frontal right.
In Photoshop:
I aligned and blended four focus stacked layers. I coloured the sail, ship and water with hue saturation layers and LUTS, then sharpened. I cropped in tightly another version for the 3 inch rule for Macro Monday.
This is the un cropped version which I’ve edited even further.
Hope you enjoyed. You can view my cropped version in the link below. Which version do you prefer? flic.kr/p/2mMNbGz
Tusen takk! (Thousand Thanks in Norwegian)
Tags #Macro #Treasured