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A classic wide angle lens. I have started using this lens for portrait work. I like capturing people at 24mm. I get a bigger picture. Taken with a 100mm Macro Lens.
*Strobist info. I used a homemade lightbox, two flashes. One behind the lens to the right, and one on the camera. The background flash was 1/32 and the on camera flash was 1/64 using tracing paper as a diffuser.
So this is a picture of my setup for my lightbox which i took some of my recent flower pictures in.
Basically it cost very little to make which is even more attractive to me.
First there are four walls to this box. There is a full sized foam board as the back which is vertical. Then the base is another piece of foam posterboard although you dont see it in this photo as it is covered with cloth. The base has been cut so that its length is the same as the width of the two side walls. The walls can really be any height but i made them a little shorter than the back so i can put more lamps from the top shooting downwards. Also in each side is a 12 x 12 inch square which i taped a piece of tissue paper across to help defuse the light.
I then for this set up have a piece of black matte fabric i got on sale which is what gives me my cornerless back ground. If i were to take this off i have a piece of white poster board that has a slight curve as it goes from vertical to horizontal to get rid of the back corner.
Lastly as can be seen here i have an extra piece of foam board going over the top. I had that there so that i could bounce the flash onto the photo.
As you can see i can light from the sides or from the top down. This was as i was finishing so the lamps are a little askew so that they could be seen easier.
I believe this whole project cost under 30 dollars including the cloth. This makes a nice stable area for me to take pictures of different objects.
Also usually i would keep some sort of diffuser infront of each one or be bouncing it off one of the walls of the box.
If you have any suggestions of comments please share.
Dédicacée à Sam et son excursion à Melide ;-)))))
Avec, en plus, le famous black background...
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I've been wanting to do a little photo project dedicated to close-ups of some of the trees I've grown. While I was out mulching a lot of my potted plants, I took it as an opportunity to take photos of some of the tree trunks I find the most provocative. Even though the plants are quite young, they already have really fun & interesting exposed root systems. I've found myself enjoying slowly looking through the trunks and trying to come up with what they remind me of, like finding shapes in the clouds - there's some in this set that amaze me with how much they remind me of other things.
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Davidoff Champion in the lightbox with Nikon SB900 lighting the stage, i use the Nikon D90 with Nikon 35mm lens. I merge two photos to get this image.
:: Camera Setting ::
CameraNikon: D90
Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 35 mm
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: On, Return not detected
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So here's the finished rig. As is evident from the shot it's somewhat large and bit of a squeeze in a tiny apartment like ours, but I like the fact that I can fit something as large as a computer or even my daughter inside to be photographed.
This setup will need more light than a small one as the light fall-off in a larger rig is greater. I'm using my 1,000 watt Redhead video lights for illumination. Workshop Halogen lights from a hardware store should work well too. (Caution: keep hot lights at a reasonable distance from the cloth and other materials as they can catch fire). Also, try using a flash bounced off the inside roof of the rig as it scatters nicely off the walls and back to give a nice even light. The obective is to fill the box with as much (scattered) light as possible to minimize shadows and create even illumination - depending on the effect you want of course. Experimentation is key in a project like this.
I bought about 4 meters of white polyester from our local fabric supply store (Fabricland - $4.99/m) but other white materials will work too - just hold it up to the light and see how much light makes it through before choosing a material. Keep in mind if it's too sheer light won't scatter as much and you'll wind up with less even lighting and hotspots on your subject. If you can see and recognize objects on the other side of the fabric, it's too thin or coarse weave.
In the shot I have an Ikea coffee table inside to raise my subject off the floor. The black PVC pipes should probably be painted white to minimize them showing up in reflections - or the cloth could be sewn together to form a fabric cube and suspended inside the frame (if you know someone very good at sewing).
I used a couple of Manfrotto universal clamps attached to the pipes inside to hang a roll of backdrop paper from. But you can just as easily cut a sheet of the right length you need and tape it to the horizontal top pipe in the back and drape it forwards.
Note: after some experimenting, I added a piece of material to cover the opening part as well to reflect frontal light onto the items being shot inside (flap missing in this photo). You can either cut an opening for your camera in the flap or if the box is big enough as mine, you can sit right inside with your camera and shoot freehand.
The fifth photo is one based on the use of soft boxes\light boxes and scrims. It is a pretty standard product shot and for the most part features what can be done with a good light box and an “infinity” background and controlled, diffused lighting from strobes. I learned that scrims, soft boxes, and light boxes are all about diffusing the light to such a point that the shadows are very soft if almost non-existent. This has a great deal of control on subject spectral highlights and reflections. This was setup
in DIY Lightbox with SB at subject left thru box set to 1/16, 24mm set to 12" away. SB at subject right thru box set to 1/8 about 18" away and set to 24mm. I think of this one, as one of my better product shots and included it in my portfolio for that reason.
Canon 60mm @ 1/100 sec at f14, ISO 100
more lightbox. Ill reshoot some of these in natural light. there are 3 things i have noted.
1. lightboxes are useless unless you buy an expensive one, the light is uneven and bad
2. i need a macro lens
3. Backdrops are the key, im better working outside in the open at this
thoughts welcome
Yet another quick test... sliced a old orange and put it on a makeshift lightbox.... on some droppaper.
Box: free, from the WH Smith cardboard dumpster. Apple: 85p from Fresh and Wild. Gaffer tape: £1.80 from B&Q. Getting a good macro photo: priceless.
My highly professional cardboard studio was based on instructions from The Strobist.