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A view of the studio looking toward the east. The copper "chandelier" was designed and built by Mark, the fireplace is out of foamboard and was assembled as a prototype for the stone fireplace we had built for our house. The Maasai ebony statues are from my childhood in East Africa. More images to follow...
...or what mom can do when everybody sleep :-D
Please do not judge my work strictly.
I surely do not pretend to be called a great pro, I just wanted to try to make the diorama with my own hands.
And the jolly dolly furniture from IKEA made me think that it would be great to make a bright and colorful room for dollies. But I didn't stop on that and even made a bedspread and cushions :-D
Just need to show this new room to my dolly girls :-)
I was very taken by a Cyclamen image by Pat Couder on Lensbaby Unlimited on Facebook, and tried something similar myself for Macro Mondays High Key theme today.
Most of the plants in the garden centre had lovely big showy flowers, and I think the staff member was a bit mystified by me wanting small flowers! This one measured up at 1" tall, and was cut from the plant and sprayed with a fine mist of water.
Photographed in natural light, which started out as soft sunshine, and got less sunny as I proceeded, with a backdrop made of iridescent tiny stars stuck on foamboard.
Stem lightened in PS, and image brightened and softness and haze added in LR.
An image that has been on the cards for a while now.
Earth element was just a random leaf from the garden. Water was created using the SplashArt II kit. Wind which is a difficult one to interpret was one of those pyramid incense cones. Fire which was the most fun was lighter fuel!
Obviously not taken in one shot! Each scene was lit with a single YN560IV 24mm @ 1/32. 24" softbox behind subjects with a piece of black foamboard between the two. Foambord was also used at the sides to reflect some light back into the scene.
As usual, the real difficulty with Macro Mondays was thinking of something a little different and different from the last time that I tried to photograph a similar subject.
This is a wineglass full of marbles photographed in a dark room with just an LED penlight for illumination from above. I used the usual setup: tripod, trigger and black foamboard background.
The raw file was developed in Capture One for colour and lowering the Clarity to give a softer feel. In Affinity, there was a bit of sharpening and the usual tone and colour work. Cropping proved a bit of a challenge, and then I applied a bit of standard Orton effect using a couple of adjustment layers [a brightness/contrast layer with Screen blend and a Gaussian blur layer with Multiply blend mode and restricted to a tonal range using advanced blend options ], but lightly as MM is not meant to be heavily processed. Then to add a little more interest I flipped the image vertically to give a more surreal abstract feel. I’m not sure I got where I wanted but at least it’s something…
The glass is less than three inches at its widest and that is not visible here anyway, so we are within the guidelines.
I wonder how many people get to the stage of losing their marbles while still having their marbles from their teenage years… {sighs}
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays! :)
Thank God I figured out a way to do these over the tub in the bath-room..... it still makes a mess but at least it's controlled, and I needed to clean my bathroom anyways. ;)
I still need another flash to really blow out the background to white, but this attempt was MUCH better then my first a couple of weeks back.
Info - I have a ledge that surrounds my bath-tub and on this ledge I butted up a piece of white foam-board on which I had attached a piece of plexiglass (which was 'supposed' to have protected the foam-board from getting ruined.... it didn't). Behind the setup I attached another piece of white foamboard to the wall as a backdrop and my flash was on a tripod in the bathtub. On the plexiglass I taped down the bottoms of the three glasses (note: masking tape works well until it gets wet). I prefocused and exposed for everything by propping up the board at about 45 degrees (the edge of the bathtub acted as a hinge), lowered the board back down to the ledge, filled everything up then it was just a matter of timing the exposure as I butted the board up against the edge of the tub and quickly lifted up the edge propelling the liquid out of the glass and "into" the tub.
Again - I am incredibly flattered by the response to this shot, so thank you all and I hope to be able to catch up here soon. :D
Another bash at improving my product photography. This time with an additional prop. I still have a long way to go before I'm happy. I'm limited these days by space so everything is done in a Heath Robinson fashion! I'd love a proper studio with proper lights instead of standing on one leg whilst holding foamboard, diffusers, flashes and remote controls!
I've had to comp together the bottle and the glass. This lighting effect could not be achieved in a single shot.
I've used as single YN560IV speedlight. For the bottle: Flash in a 24" double diffused softbox to the rear. Approx. 18" away. A further diffuser was used just behind the bottle to give a more gradated rim light. This hasn't quite had the effect I wanted! I cut from a piece of black foamboard a slightly larger shape of the bottle and placed this behind. Then 2 larger pieces of black foamboard placed left and right of subject to control the glare from the softbox. Speedlight triggered via YN560TX Full power @ 24mm. I then used the same flash with a Rogue grid attachment to light the label. 1/128 @ 24mm.
The glass was filled with water and a few drops of red food colouring. Same set up as the bottle but with a much lower flash power. 1/32 @ 24mm.
PP included masking the label frame into the bottle then compositing it with the glass. I'm quite comfortable with the camera/flash aspect of these shoots but PS work still blows my mind.....
I also need to inspect my purchases closer for wonky damaged labels. Hope it tastes ok tho :)
Still, it's much better than sat in front of the gogglebox having your brain fogged by a soap opera!
82/365 -- Good for Your Heart
We've all heard that olive oil is good for our heart. But do you really know why?
Olive oil contains monounsaturated fat, a healthier type of fat that can lower your risk of heart disease by reducing the total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad") cholesterol levels in your blood.
Everything comes at a price... and so does olive oil.
Do you use olive oil regularly?
Strobist info: 1x SB-800 high subject left into white foamboard behind subject. 1x SB-600 behind camera right into white foamboard and feathered into subject for fill.
The tiny (5mm) stars are stuck to foamboard, and are usually used to create bokeh in the background of images.
Today they got a chance to shine as the main subject for Macro Mondays "Star" theme.
Shot in natural light, with 100mm macro lens + extension tubes (I think that makes it a 1.68:1 macro lens?).
Three of a Kind - a composite of three wine glasses. Each was lit by a gelled strobe on either side, the light was bounced off a white card and the frosted parts of the wine glass picked up the colored light. One YN-568EXII connected to the camera with a flash cord acted as master, and was gelled with a blue gel and fired at 1/4 power on the left. A Canon 430 EXii acting as a slave was gelled with two full CTO gels and fired at 1/4 power on the right. A small piece of foamboard was fixed above the glass to add a little rim light.
An edit from last night’s play around with lightbulbs and sparklers.
The bulb is an antique effect led type that we had left over from the kitchen light fittings. It’s held in place on a piece of black perspex by a small piece of blutac. The perspex created the reflection in last night’s shot but not in this one ;) A small sparkler was placed directly behind the bulb and angled towards it to rain some sparks down over the bulb. My first few attempts were ok but I just wasn’t getting any definition in the bulb and the cap was completely in shadow. So I introduced a 24” softbox to the right and angled at 45° down towards the subject. Equipped with a Yongnuo YN560IV, power set to 1/64 and at 24mm zoom. An A0 size piece of white foamboard was propped up on the left side and rested on the softbox, effectively creating a tent over the bulb and sparkler. Playing around with exposure times between 1 and 3 secs gave me some really nice spark trails and the burst of rear curtain flash then exposed the bulb perfectly. All taken in a dark room to minimise ambient light.
As you can probably tell this is a composite of 3 separate images. However each individual bulb shot is a single exposure. I was going to try and get the sparks sharper by compositing different images at different focus distances but that was just too much faff! On a technical note I used the blend mode ‘Lighten’ in PS for the 3 images This has the effect of keeping the lighter pixels in all the selected layers hence they overlap. The darker ones just get replaced.
A bit of a DIY effort for this weeks challenge. I made the mini boxes and a lightcube to shoot within.
The mini cardboard boxes were designed in Adobe Illustration, using a handwritting style font for the text. The net was printed onto kraft paper using my inkjet printer.
I made the lightcube from foamboard and sheets of tracing paper. Cheap LED worklights from Screwfix were used to illuminate the cube.
For the 'Macro Monday' - 'Handle with Care' challenge 26th September 2016.
An ecologically friendly portrait of myself on a piece of foamcore that I am holding. A bit meta perhaps?
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Silver Bridges
Taken with a 90mm macro at f2.8, 1/125 sec ISO 160.
The forks were on a plate of glass on a black surface. I used the speedlight with a diffuser on camera but bounced it off a sheet of white foamboard.
129/365 -- Specular Spectacular
Yahoo! The week is finally over! This has been one of the toughest week at work.
Strobist info: 1x SB-800 into white foamboard behind subject left.
Taken for the group 52 of 2011 and the theme 'Love'.
SB900 on right firing through deflector
White foamboard reflector on left
This seven-image set is based on the same setup that I used for Macro Mondays a couple of weeks ago (see flic.kr/p/2ptWG9u) although with a different capture and, mercifully, the right way up.
The marbles were in a wineglass and black foamboard was used as backdrop. The setup was lit from overhead using an LED penlight in a darkened room. It was a long exposure using a tripod and remote trigger - this enabled me to move the torch a little to build the light in the exposure..
I lost my marbles decades ago but, quite astonishingly, some of them turned up in the wine cupboard a while back. Strange…
The marbles, like me, are from the last century and it shows in their battered surfaces. But they’re made for playing with, aren’t they?
The edits are:
1 - Topaz Studio 2. This monochrome rendition uses Smudge and Glow effects to emphasise the lines and shapes and reduce the surface texture.
2 - Topaz Studio 2. This uses a Remix effect that is often interesting and can look very like stained glass.
3 - Topaz Studio 2. This is probably my favourite of the realistic incarnations. I particularly like the way the glass stem has turned out. It uses Smudge, Glow and Bloom filters. Confusingly Bloom is more of a glow and Glow (along with Radiance) is a linear extension filter. Sigh… [I’ll post this on Sliders Sunday]
4 - Topaz Studio 2. This is a straight colour swap with a bit of surface smoothing. Playing with colours is endless (if confusing) fun…
5 - Nik Analog Efex. This is a double exposure effect based around two copies of the image manipulated by the filter (rotated, resized and given a circular blur effect). It reminds me of nascent star clusters in the distant universe. This one was one of the most curiously interesting to my marbleless mind…
6 - Nik Color Efex. A fairly well-trodden path for me with this one: one of the many possible solarisation variations along with a bicolour filter and a vignette.
7 - Nik HDR Efex. I don’t often have much successful fun with this filter but this one worked out OK giving a very realistic effect. I particularly like the blue glass which was a side effect of changing the colour temperature. HDR normally zaps texture but I tried to limit that in the filter options.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera version in the first comment so that you can see where we started before the basic development and processing and the tidying-up work on all that dust.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
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Not the most original title to an image but creativity escapes me just now!
LED light bulb taken using the dark field method. Single YN560 IV strobe 1/128 @ 24mm. Dark field set up consisting of one flash fired behind subject into an A1 size white foamboard. Same foamboard at right angles to subject to create the rim light. I had to dial down the bulb using a dimming plug as the filament was just too blown out. Into PS for a little rinse and repeat.
Triggered via YN560TX
107/365 -- Kim is Two Weeks Late
Need I say more?
Strobist info: 1x SB-800 into white foamboard subject right. 1x SB-600 into white foamboard behind subject.
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A plastic ice cube placed upon some black perspex.
Strobist: YN560IV fired into white foam board to the rear left and below subject. 1/32 @ 24mm gelled Rogue 'Steel Green'
I did others with blue gels but preferred this.
Strobist - 1 750 watt monolight fired into white reflective umbrella, high camera left. White foamboard reflector camera right of model. Black velvet background.
Magnus Bane - Nicholas Tse (Enterbay)
Alec Lightwood - James Franco (HotToys)
I have made for men one more room with a balcony. I used an extrusion foamed polystyrene Penoplex and foamboard.
From a good and gracious flickr friend, I am the grateful recipient of several vintage car posters. Not knowing whether this “good friend” wishes to be identified or remain an anonymous benefactor, I will allow this person to decide whether or not he wishes to be known. I am, however, extremely grateful………which I’m sure this individual is aware.
I am in the process of digitalizing these lovely vintage posters - a somewhat daunting task in that I do not have the physical resources (easel, studio lighting, etc) with which to do proper justice to these fine prints. Fact is I mounted a piece of foamboard on the outside of my garage door and have been using double sided, low tack, mounting tape to position the posters onto the foamboard. Obviously not the ideal way to photograph prints but you work with what you have and try to do justice.
Smile on Saturday: Display the D. The ducklings are all abed, the toys and supper dishes are cleared away -- finally, a chance for some canoodling in the Duck household!
I found these twisty ducks in the gardening aisle of the dollar store. They are meant to tie plants to stakes, but that just seemed like a waste of their hilarious photographic potential.
Diorama elements:
Ducks - Dollar store plant ties
Couch - Homemade from sponges and felt
Big throw pillow - Watch box filler
Ottoman - Velvet ring box
Carpet - Mouse pad
China end table, potted plants - Dollar store
Plant stand - Holder for a painted wooden egg
Rose bouquet, aperatif glasses - Playmobil
Room - Foamboard walls on wooden table
Wall decor/mirror - Reflective silver cardboard
I've not destructed anything for a good while now so I purchased a few bulbs and made a mess!
I wanted something a little different from the last time I did this, roughly 4yrs to the day as it happens! Where does the time go! I chose Pearl lightbulbs and lit them indirectly rather than directly as I did last time.
One YN560IV in a 24" softbox 1/128 @ 24mm. Softbox behind bulb with a piece of black foamboard in between the two to flag off the light. Basically a dark field set up.
Speedlight triggered with MIOPS set to sound mode. 2ms delay.
Nice old 620 camera that was given to me by a family friend.
Looks like a professional studio photo with a darkbox, lights and diffusers, but it isn't. I just had the Kodak on a piece of black foamboard with window lighting.
Photo: Sony NEX-5N + Auto Miranda 50mm, f1.8 + Fotodiox Sony E to Miranda adapter.
9pm and I suddenly remembered my 365. To be fair, I had been up for 40 hours the day before!
Decided to do my Macro Mondays image for Refreshments.
These were left over after I ate half the bag for my lunch coming home from Photo24 on the previous day. I love the buttery flavour of cashews, but have managed to resist the temptation to eat the rest of the bag... so far!
On white foamboard, natural light only from the left, foam board used to the right to reflect light into the shadows.
This seven-image set is based on the same setup that I used for Macro Mondays a couple of weeks ago (see flic.kr/p/2ptWG9u) although with a different capture and, mercifully, the right way up.
The marbles were in a wineglass and black foamboard was used as backdrop. The setup was lit from overhead using an LED penlight in a darkened room. It was a long exposure using a tripod and remote trigger - this enabled me to move the torch a little to build the light in the exposure..
I lost my marbles decades ago but, quite astonishingly, some of them turned up in the wine cupboard a while back. Strange…
The marbles, like me, are from the last century and it shows in their battered surfaces. But they’re made for playing with, aren’t they?
The edits are:
1 - Topaz Studio 2. This monochrome rendition uses Smudge and Glow effects to emphasise the lines and shapes and reduce the surface texture.
2 - Topaz Studio 2. This uses a Remix effect that is often interesting and can look very like stained glass.
3 - Topaz Studio 2. This is probably my favourite of the realistic incarnations. I particularly like the way the glass stem has turned out. It uses Smudge, Glow and Bloom filters. Confusingly Bloom is more of a glow and Glow (along with Radiance) is a linear extension filter. Sigh… [I’ll post this on Sliders Sunday]
4 - Topaz Studio 2. This is a straight colour swap with a bit of surface smoothing. Playing with colours is endless (if confusing) fun…
5 - Nik Analog Efex. This is a double exposure effect based around two copies of the image manipulated by the filter (rotated, resized and given a circular blur effect). It reminds me of nascent star clusters in the distant universe. This one was one of the most curiously interesting to my marbleless mind…
6 - Nik Color Efex. A fairly well-trodden path for me with this one: one of the many possible solarisation variations along with a bicolour filter and a vignette.
7 - Nik HDR Efex. I don’t often have much successful fun with this filter but this one worked out OK giving a very realistic effect. I particularly like the blue glass which was a side effect of changing the colour temperature. HDR normally zaps texture but I tried to limit that in the filter options.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera version in the first comment so that you can see where we started before the basic development and processing and the tidying-up work on all that dust.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
I've not destructed anything for a good while now so I purchased a few bulbs and made a mess!
I wanted something a little different from the last time I did this, roughly 4yrs to the day as it happens! Where does the time go! I chose Pearl lightbulbs and lit them indirectly rather than directly as I did last time.
One YN560IV in a 24" softbox 1/128 @ 24mm. Softbox behind bulb with a piece of black foamboard in between the two to flag off the light. Basically a dark field set up.
Speedlight triggered with MIOPS set to sound mode. 2ms delay.
This is what all the passport pictures have been building up to.
900 pictures from 36 exposures each showing a different facial expression or side of my personality building up to the complete self portrait. The majority were developed in the darkroom changing the filters to get the appropriate colours and the rest were scanned and digitially manipulated and printed.
I raised some pictures on blocks of foamboard so i could include personal information like phone numbers, national insurence numbers and some blood.
It was all based on the theme of identity.
The city put in a sidewalk in front of the dolly house and now we are waiting for the landscapers.....; )
I actually made the sidewalk. The house is sitting on foamboard. I painted the sidewalk and grass. Waiting for the shrubs and plants to arrive...:)
by Ralph Lauren
strobist: 430ex by ST-E2 / manual (1/64)
subject taped to black tabletop /
flash bounced off white foamboard on right /
copy paper to left for bounced fill /
Foma Liquid emulsion on Washi paper. I mount this series on foamboard with small needles, trying to find the best presentation.
springtimefire: tulips, Fuji X100V, backlight from a window, black foamboard
Frühlingsfeuerwerk ... Fuji X100V, Gegenlicht vom Fenster und schwarze Platte
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Picked up some chewie from Tesco on the way home. Decided there and then to hit it with some strobes :)
YN968 1/128 @ 24mm gelled Rogue Medium Yellow. Fired into white foamboard to the rear of subject. YN968 in 24" softbox 1/4 @ 24mm fired directly at the Starburst box. Everything lay on a white perspex sheet and strobes triggered via YN622.
Could have done better with the dof on the box here in hindsight. Alas evening time is precious :)
From a good and gracious flickr friend, I am the grateful recipient of several vintage car posters. Not knowing whether this “good friend” wishes to be identified or remain an anonymous benefactor, I will allow this person to decide whether or not he wishes to be known. I am, however, extremely grateful………which I’m sure this individual is aware.
I am now in a position to begin the process of digitalizing these lovely vintage posters - a somewhat daunting task in that I do not have the physical resources (easel, studio lighting, etc) with which to do proper justice to these fine prints. Fact is I mounted a piece of foamboard on the outside of my garage door and have been using double sided, low tack, mounting tape to position the posters onto the foamboard. Obviously not the ideal way to photograph prints but you work with what you have and try to do justice.
84/365 -- Sparks Fly When We Kiss
This is a Lladro 7635 piece entitled "Ten and Growing". Do you still remember your first kiss?
I do... It was on my wedding day in front of the alter! (please keep all your comments and reactions, whether good or bad, on this statement to yourself).
Well, Kim and my first kiss has always been memorable. Sparks were flying all over...
Do you still remember your first kiss??
On a side note, I am going on a business trip to China tomorrow. I will be back early morning of Saturday already. I will still be taking my daily photos but will only be posting them once I come back. I have to wake up around 3am so... goodnight and I'll catch you all on Saturday!
Strobist info: 1x SB-800 with 1/2 CTS gel into white reflective umbrella high subject right. 1x foamboard subject left. 1x wall lamp with crystals behind subject for fireworks.
I made a focusable viewfinder for my iPhone, consisting of foam board, a magnifying glass lens and tracing paper for focusing. This "lens attachment" is a little bit of a Rube Goldberg approach to taking pictures, but I do like the results.
Today I'd like to show you my miniature couch during construction : ).
I'm no furniture building expert, just an enthusiastic amateur, so don't expect perfection (isn't that boring anyway?), but a cute little piece I'm proud of.
The materials are foamboard, a light ochre /mustard beige cord fabric, wood, glue (tacky, fabric and hot glue) and paint.
Next project will be a similar and yet different couch for my mother's display - can't wait to start with that!
131/365 -- Cherry Bombs
Kim and I went shopping today. I wonder how many people actually go to the shopping malls on weekends. First, traffic was terrible. When we go to the mall, I actually had to double park my car (no space available). Inside the mall was worse... there were just too many people.
It's been a long day and I haven't even talked about the photo... I think it's a bit dark. What do you think?
Strobist info: 1x SB-800 into collapsed white reflective umbrella high subject right. 1x white foamboard subject left for fill.
Pinhole photo taken with a homemade 8x10" foamboard pinhole camera.
8x10" Efke PL100 developed in Rodinal 1:50.
Please do not invite my photos to groups that I am not a member of. If you want to do so, invite me to become a member of the group first. Otherwise I'll decline the invitations. Although I appreciate likes, if you have no photos of your own, and you have lots of pornographic or "voyeuristic" stuff in your faves, I will block you without any questions. If your photostream mostly contains your dick pics you will be blocked immediately.
From a good and gracious flickr friend, I was the grateful recipient of several vintage car posters. Not knowing whether this “good friend” wishes to be identified or remain an anonymous benefactor, I will allow this person to decide whether or not he wishes to be known. I am, however, extremely grateful………which I’m sure this individual is aware.
I am just now in a position to begin the process of digitalizing these lovely vintage posters - a somewhat daunting task in that I do not have the physical resources (easel, studio lighting, etc) with which to do proper justice to these fine prints. Fact is I mounted a piece of foamboard on the outside of my garage door and have been using double sided, low tack, mounting tape to position the posters onto the foamboard. Obviously not the ideal way to photograph prints but you work with what you have and try to do justice.