Canon EOS 40D

"Let me see you touch the ground" - Hoochie Mama: 2 Live Crew

 

I no longer have my Canon 40D. It's gone and hopefully in a few weeks replaced with something else. So today's photo is the last photo I have of it before I placed it back in it's box and shipped to the other side of the nation.

 

Today's photo was inspired by the emails and comments I received about my tripod and how do I get some of my low angle shots. The tripod I use is an older Bogen 3001 given to me by one of my BFF. This tripod has seen a lot of action and has a lot of mismatching screws and bolts holding it together now yet it still works.

 

What I really like the most about this tripod is that I can take the center shaft and invert it so that the camera mounts from below. So now you can see how I take those low angle shots.

 

Main lighting was provided by a 580EX II in a shoot through umbrella up high. To fill in the back side of the camera/lens I placed a 430EX out of the camera's frame and pointed it towards the tripod.

 

Bye Canon 40D! It was fun working with you, take care!

 

Strobist info:

 

1 580EX II 1/4 power shoot through umbrella high camera right

1 430EX 1/8 power snoot/grid off frame camera left

 

Camera settings:

1/500 f/8 ISO100 <-Thanks Jamr for catching the typo. The G2 only goes up to 400.

 

Lens used:

Fixed Canon 7-21mm f/2.0-2.5 as found on a Canon PowerShot G2

 

Setup shot can be found here

 

Explore June 12,2009

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