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From wikidedia: The Rodeo San Francisco Refinery is a oil refinery located in Rodeo, California, which is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The refinery is currently owned and operated by ConocoPhillips.
The complex is capable of refining 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
D80 f5 1/60 24mm
SB800 @1/1 reflected off brolly high and slightly right of camera
SB600 @1/4 with diffuser high and directly right of subject
Speedlights triggered by CLS
D750
AF-S 105mm VR Micro
SB-910 + Westcott Apollo Orb (TTL)
Camera Left / Triggered via Built-in Commander
Manual Exposure
ƒ/18 @ 1/160th sec @ 400 ISO
I had an hour this morning on my way to show the new camera off at Samy's Camera in LA. So, a trip to the studio was in order.
I had arranged to meet a model at the studio. But that didn't work, so plan "B"! I had this peacock feather laying around and with an addition of an over sized drop of water...
The lighting was left over from the shot with my dog, Oliver. I killed the rim light and went with the single flash in the Orb.
The ISO was pushed up to 400 ISO so that the flashes were more efficient at the ƒ/18 setting. ƒ/18 was selected for the added depth of field I wanted when working this close and handheld.
Strobist ~ Two Lights ~ AB800 & Nikon SB900 w Orange Gel ~ Triggered by Pocketwizards Plus II
After a few years of doing photo-shoots I was able to save up and purchase a full frame camera. So allow me to introduce you to my new camera, the Nikon D3 aka Barry Bonds....lol
Blog Post ~ www.jmorenophoto.com/blog/purchased-a-nikon-d3/
The awesome people from Miops sent me their Smart Trigger for review. It's a Sound,Laser,Lightning, DIY, Scenario, HDR, etcc.... trigger!
You can check out the review here:
petapixel.com/2016/03/21/review-miops-smart-trigger-makes...
Strobist info:
YN460II speedlight thru bigmama subject right @1/4
YN460II with yellow gel back of subject @ 1/4
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Computer has been updating for hours, which is seroiusly hindering my work for the day. But it has me thinking...
Couple things - - I'm looking to upgrade my work computer to be able to handle the larger work flow, and also a good backup system. I'm open to suggestions on both topics. Private message me, comment, Facebook me....help me design a rock solid system to get me well in to the future!
and for the strobey's: sb700 camera right through 46" umbrella - lumo behind and slightly left - triggered w/ v6
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Strobist info :
1 Multiblitz 200 1/2 power w/17" x 55" softbox on the left.
1 Impact EX 100A 1/2 power with soft box in front above the subject.
1 YN 560 1/2 power aim at the background under the table.
Triggered with Cactus V5.
Bought these food from Costco very economic.
Croissant : USD 5.99 for 12 pcs.
Smoked Ham : USD 2.90 / lb.
Nikon D7100
Nikkor 18-200mm 3.5-5.6 G DX
f/8 | 1/100 | 48mm | ISO 100
AB400 in 64" diffused umbrella camera left @ full power, triggered by Cybersync.
Cosplay Shoot
Title : Kiddy Grade
Character Tweedledee, Eclaire
Brianna - Tweedledee
Eclaire - Skye
Date : 09-18-2016
Note, the shoot is rejected for equipment failure (The trigger does not works) This is just for the record
Have not got any chance to go out for shooting... able to do some Flower shooting only. Also tried a new Metz mecablitz 15 MS-1 digital macro flash which is soo cool.
Sorry I've been slow on uploads. I'll catch up tomorrow. :)
Camera info:
Canon T1i, Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L, f/8, 1/200s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
-AlienBee B400 shot through a white beauty dish above the camera and in front of subject. 7 feet high and 3 feet away from subject. 1/2 Power
-AlienBee B800 shot through a white stripbox and camera left and behind the subject 5 feet high and 3 feet away from the subject. Full Power
-Flash trigged with Cactus V5 triggers
Comments? Crit?
Thanks to Ogalthorpe for the lighting and another fun shoot :)
strobist info:
1600w monolight with beauty dish for fill camera right
540EZ bare camera right
540EZ bare camera left
triggered by Pocket Wizards.
It was bit unusually for Channel Island to be deserted from keen fisherman. #topendNT #weasonsNT #DarwinNT #D850
Strobist info.
580exII high above camera in Qbox 24 @1/8th power
Yongnuo yn 560 low below camera in shoot through umbrella @1/16th power
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Picture above shows a Nikon D800E equipped with Phottix GPS and wireless RF trigger. The back of the camera is equipped with a Hoodman loupe to be able to critically focus using live view on LCD screen. The lens used is a Mamiya 645 Manual Focus A 150mm f/2.8. It is mounted on the camera via a PSA (Panorama Shift Adapter) from the company Zoerk (Zork) custom made to accommodate Mamiya 645 lenses on Nikon F body. The adapter has a tripod mount and can accommodate a L bracket shown here. The whole assembly is mounted via a Novoflex plate (QPL2 in blue color) on an Arca-Swiss compatible tripod head. I used here a clone of the Arca Swiss Cube for maximum flexibility and accuracy of positioning. In the picture above the lens is shifted horizontally to the left of the camera of approximately 10mm. This assembly is no longer a point & click camera but the digital equivalent of the old view camera, designed to meet or exceed the largest Digital medium format output.
The purpose of using a Mamiya lens on Nikon FF body is not just the latest fad to mount third party lenses on a Nikon body. Mamiya 645 lenses are excellent medium format lenses which have a diameter much superior to the 135 format lenses. It allows to take several photos shifted within the diameter of the lens optics. This is made possible because the 75mm diagonal of a 645 medium format lens gives 32mm of additional space (shift) compared to the 43mm diagonal of a 35mm format camera sensor. This is why we can take 3 photos shifted (one with no shit, one shifted left, and one shifted right) and still be within the diameter of the medium format lens. Using this technique the stitching is quasi perfect with no need to crop due to loss of coverage in the upper or lower section of the image, usually created by a a curvy horizon when panning/rotating with a non perfect leveling.
The resulting image that can be produced with this setup is the equivalent of a 80 Mpixel camera depending on the orientation of the D800E sensor vs the direction of shift! Superior resolution, higher ISO and less noise than all the current Digital medium format cameras sold $20000 and more! Yes, it is possible to do it with an investment inferior to $4000 if you count the purchase cost of the D800E. I will concede that the Mamiya 645 lenses, although excellent, will not quite match the performance of the Leica S lenses. Note however that a Leica S lens is usually > $6000 vs a used Mamiya 645 lens (55mm, 80mm) which can be found on ebay for $300 or less!
The German made Zoerk (Zork) adapter is unique as the Mamiya lens is fixed during the shifting: it is the body which moves behind the lens! Unlike most Panorama adapters allowing the rotation through a difficult to find nodal point , the Zork adaper eliminates any parallax issue since the lens is fixed vs the subject. This is particularly useful when you have a near and remote subject aligned with the camera: any rotation outside the nodal point will ruin the alignment and makes the stitching impossible. Therefore the Zork design results in a superior accuracy of the stitching of the photos where technically 2-3 pixels overlap is enough for a perfect stitch. Rotation based Panorama requires usually min 20% overlap to account for distortion/parallax issues, and the final image needs cropping due to curvature movement of the rotation if tripod head is not perfectly leveled.
Another huge benefit of the Zork adapter: it shifts horizontally 20mm with camera sensor in landscape mode. One limitation in vertical shift: the prism/flash housing of the D800 or D800E limits the vertical shift with sensor in landscape position (approx 14mm). It is better than the max shift of a Nikkor PC-E lens (approx 11 mm). With the camera in landscape mode and a vertical shift (up and down) or with the camera in portrait mode and a horizontal shift (left/right) you achieve the biggest file enlargement. With a Nikon PC-E lens a maximum 11mm shift will give you a 92% increase of the photo. With the Zork adapter a full 20mm shift (possible on Canon DLSR and Nikon pro bodies without built-in flash) will provide a 167% enlargement (yes 2.7 the original pixel size!). It means that a 36Mpixel camera like the D800 will provide a 96Mpixel file with the Zork adapter fully shifted. On Nikon bodies with built in flash like the D700 or D800 however the full shift of 20mm is not possible as the flash housing in on the path of the shift. It seems that the shift is limited to 14mm which provides an enlargement of 117% (x2.2 Mpixel increase).
For Panorama shots where the camera orientation must be the same as the direction of the shift (landscape/Horizontal shift or portrait/Vertical shift) the aspect ratio is spectacular but the Mpixel increase is less:
- On a traditional Nikon PC-E lens with 11mm shift, the Mpixel increase is 61% with aspect ratio of 2.4:1
- with the zork adapter using full 20mm shift (possible on all Canon and Nikon DSLR even with the D700/D800), the Mpixel increase is 111% with aspect ratio of 3:1! more information is available at the following link:
www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/tilt-shift-lenses1.htm
Tilt movement is not possible with this adapter and in general with Mamiya 645 lenses tilt can be achieved but you lose the ability to focus at infinity as the registration distance between the rear of the lens and the sensor would be too long with the additional tilt movement.
Although a sturdy design that reflects German engineering, the finish (look) of the adapter looks as a hand made prototype. The demand is not high enough in the market to mass produce this custom made adapter (the model I purchased use only Mamiya 645 MF lenses but the manufacturer can sell you one adapte for Pentax 6x7 or Hasselblad lenses to be mounted on Nikon or Canon bodies).
Cost $750 including the L bracket that allows the adapter to be mounted with flexibility in any position on a tripod head.
more information can be found on the manufacturer website:
I have put a lot of effort to research and understand the Tilt and Shift world which was new to me, and although there are a few books on view cameras, T&S lenses and the Scheimpflug principle, I could not find any practical information on using T&S adapters like Mirex and Zork on Digital cameras, using large diameter Medium Format lenses. Forums seem to provide some partial information with little experience with Nikon DSLR which are less friendly to shifting in the direction of the built-in flash. So I decided to gather all the information I have learned and summarize it in this single post, which you can bookmark or save as a favorite for future reference.
An example of a photo taken with this set-up with explanations how to use Photoshop for Panorama stitching and focus stacking is given in the comments area of this link:
www.flickr.com/photos/episa/8603934110/in/photostream
Final question you may ask and which I already asked myself since I own the Nikkor Micro PC-E 45/2.8: why not use a simple dedicated Tilt and shift lens from Nikon?
It turns out that using a dedicated Nikon PC-E lens is not any easier and still requires to manually focus and fix the exposure manually. A the same time it costs $2000 to get a single T&S lens. With the set-up described in this posting the investment is limited to the adapter ($750) and the Mamiya lens ($300 on ebay for each focal length like 55mm f/2.8N, 80mm f/2.8N, A 150mm f/2.8). Investing in a Nikon PC-E lens makes sense if you use the tilting function for creative effect or as a landscape photographer. But I would argue that using Focus stacking you can achieve an ever better effect than with a Tilt lens if your goal is to achieve maximum depth of field in a landscape or in a macro shot. The real advantage of the PC-E lens remains when you need to reduce the depth of field and create special effects (like miniature rendering, or tilted plane of focus). This becomes a very narrow application mostly for professional photographers who need to sell a unique look in their pictures.
I hope that you found this compilation of data instructive, even eye opening. Let me know if you appreciate the sharing.
This is another epiphyllum flower from our garden.
I lit this with a YN560-III in an 8.6 in Lastoliste softbox at camera left. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Over the years, I've taken quite a few "Epi" pictures, and they're in my Epiphyllum Flowers album, if you like that sort of thing.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157680754580643
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
ROCK CREEK, British Columbia - In 1859, gold was discovered in the Kettle River. This triggered a stampede to the very place where the Rock Creek meets the Kettle River in the southwest corner of Boundary Country. Bolstered by golden dreams and heartened by tales of riches, thousands of miners descended on this quiet spot. They created a rollicking frontier town. The Kettle Valley Rail Trail, part of Canada’s iconic Trans Canada Trail, runs straight through Rock Creek.
ROCK CREEK is in the Boundary Country region of south central British Columbia. The unincorporated settlement is mostly on the southwest side of the Kettle River at the confluence with Rock Creek. The place lies at the junction of BC Highway 33 about 84 miles south of Kelowna, about 20 miles west of Greenwood and 32 miles east of Osoyoos.
ROCK CREEK was featured on the historical television documentary series Gold Trails and Ghost Towns, Season 3, Episode 8. LINK to the video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Duhc8yZKA8
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia Directory) - ROCK CREEK - a post office and village situated on the Kettle River, 3 miles south of the International Boundary line, and 1 1 miles northwest of Midway, in Greenwood Provincial Electoral District, reached by C. P. R. Kettle Valley branch, distant 1 mile.. Has telegraph office. Anglican and Presbyterian churches. The population in 1918 was about 50. Local resources: Farming, stock-raising and dairying. Excellent land for stock-raising and mixed farming.
The ROCK CREEK Post Office was established - 1 June 1888.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the ROCK CREEK Post Office - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
- sent from - / ROCK CREEK / OCT 4 / 09 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1 -2) was not listed in the Proof Book - it was most likely proofed c. 1900 - (RF B). Split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 6 August 1888.
- sent by registered mail - / R / - large "R" in oval in black ink (2 strikes)
- via - / MIDWAY / OC 4 / 09 / B.C / - split ring transit backstamp - this split ring hammer (A1-2 / left & right arcs are both 8.0 mm) was not listed in the Proof Book - it was most likely proofed c. 1902 - (RF B).
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - MIDWAY - a post office and village at junction of the C. P. R. and Kettle Valley Railways, between Nelson and Vancouver, and also the G. N. Railway from Princeton to Spokane, in Greenwood Provincial Electoral District. Has Presbyterian church, local and long distance telephone connections, C. P. R. and G. N. W. telegraph offices. The population in 1918 was 100. Local resources: Farming, stock-raising and fruit-growing.
via - / # NELS. & MID. R.P.O. # / E / OC 5 / 09 / B.C. / rpo transit backstamp - W-98a / RF ? / Proofed - 29 December 1908 / ERD - 8 January 1909 / LRD - 13 April 1910 / indicia - E, W /
The Nelson & Midway R.P.O. service began in 1903 and lasted until 1957.
- via - / TRAIN NO / 96 / OC 8 / 09 / OTT. & Ft Wm R.P.O. / - rpo transit backstamp (Ludlow O-225 / RF 160) - this hammer was in use from 1904 to 1914.
- arrival - / REGISTERED / OCT / 11 / 1909 / Hamilton, Canada / - large double ring arrival backstamp in purple ink.
- Commercial cover addressed to: John A. Bruce & Co., / Seed Merchants, / Hamilton, Canada
LINK to a photo of the John A. Bruce & Co. Seed Merchants Building - scontent.fyyc4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/182150_4710697695...
John A. Bruce & Company - The Seed Warehouse of this firm, one of the largest and best equipped in Canada, was situated in Hamilton on the corner of King and McNab Streets, had a frontage of 30 feet on the former and 130 feet on the latter, occupying 7 plots. The business was established by John A. Bruce in 1850, and in 1861 his brother, F. C. Bruce, became partner. They popularized soybeans in Canada and beyond. Brothers John and Frank Bruce had supplied a Canadian market for quality seeds of all kinds since 1850. By the time John A. Bruce and Company first offered soybean seed for sale, it had an established reputation for introducing new and improved varieties of field crop, vegetable and flower seeds, tools, and ideas to farmers and gardeners throughout the Dominion of Canada. Their exhibit mounted by the Bruce Company at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 was awarded the World’s Fair Medal and a diploma “for the superior quality of our exhibit of Oats, Peas, Rye, Millet and Timothy Seeds.” While the Bruce Company maintained a seed farm and trial grounds on Main Street East, Hamilton, in addition to its offices and warehouse at the corner of King and McNab Streets, many seeds sold by them in Canada were imported from Britain, France, California, and a few from Holland and Denmark. By offering larger quantities of seed at more favorable prices per unit, the Bruce Company targeted farmers who intended to plant soybeans as a field crop, not a garden or vegetable crop. John A. Bruce's seed-house encouraged farmers to buy their products "Farmers all over the Dominion are awakening to the fact that it pays to buy the very best seeds that can be procured, and our long connection with the best growers in the seed producing districts gives us exceptional advantages in securing the best samples offered, while our cleaning facilities are unequaled. The large annual increase in our trade with the farmers of the Dominion is an evidence of the superiority of our stocks and of the personal attention we give to the interests of our patrons. Our first grades of Clovers and Timothy are in all cases export seed." In North America, more seed and nursery companies came into being during the 2nd half of the 19C, especially after the US Civil War. Mail-order became much more common due to improved transportation networks and US postal reforms in the 1860s that made it cheaper to ship seeds and plant material, as well as catalog. Mail-order companies increased the size and number, often including colorful art, of catalogs they produced, and most catalogs were shipped to customers free upon request. As more business was done by mail, catalogs contained more detailed ordering and shipping instructions. John A. Bruce & Company, produced mail order catalogs and instructional leaflets from 1862-1932. LINK to article - amerseed-plantcatalogs.blogspot.com/2019/03/john-bruce-co...
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Nikon Z7II
Z MC 105mm f/2.8
SB-5000
WR-R10 (CLS radio trigger)
MagMod MagGrid x3
Induro GIT 404L + Induro BHD3 ball-head.
Tethered via Tether Tools cable and Smart Shooter 4
55 images Stacked in Helicon
I really wanted to control and focus the light. To that end, I used three of the MagMod grids. This allowed me to get the light to 'skip' across the feather without filling in the shadows that I thought added so much to the image.
In order to achieve the depth of focus I wanted, I used the Focus Shift Shooting option in the Z7II. (for further explanation of what I'm talking about, please see the very next image in my photo stream: 182 Strawberries Stacked.) FSS helped me create 55 images that were later stacked together... using only the sharpest parts of each image... into the final product. I used the default setting in the Helicon software to create the TIF file that was brought into PhotoShop Elements for resizing for post.
Within the FSS menu there is an option for delay between shots. For the 182 Strawberries Stacked, I used a 5 second delay. It wasn't enough. I overheated the batteries and they started to falter about 2/3 of the way into the stack capture. For this, I moved the delay to 10 seconds. Much better. The delay allowed the flash to fully recharge and cool down bit between each shot.
Strangely... this is a full color image.
A test shot with a new sound trigger I got. Makes shots like this a lot easier but still a pain in the butt... Enjoy.
Everyone, scroll down in the comments and find one by Steve Strawn. He is known for shots like this but like a billion times better. He is truly one of my favorite photographers. Go to his gallery now and look at his stuff. It makes this shot almost embarrasing to post. Go. Go go go....
Strobist info: Yongnuo YN-560 II with softbox right side top; Nikon SB700 with huge softbox left side beside camera; Yongnuo YN-560 II with softbox left side behind subjects; triggered by buil-in flash from camera.
It's been extraordinarily hot all day again today, after putting the baby to bed, watering the grass and washing up, I decided it was time for something thirst quenching from the fridge, and decided to go hell for leather into a bottle of Cobbledicks "Rum Barrel Aged" Cider. Turns out it wasn't quite so thirst quencing after all.
Strobist info: 1 bare SB24 at 1/16 behind and below the glass, 1 SB24 at 1/4 through shoot thru umbrella camera right. Both triggered with eBay triggers.
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strobist info: flash con paraguas blanco translucido a casi 90 grados a la izquierda, disparado con cactus V4
My first headshot with my new Nikon D810 and Nikkor Mico 105mm f/2.8G AF-S VR. I used two SB-910s in a shoot-through umbrella slightly right of and above the camera axis, triggered with an SU-800. f/4 @ 1/250 ISO 64.
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Strobist info:
Cactus KF36 camera right with snoot fired into smoke @ 1/16th power, triggered by cactus V4
with my new seamless paper!!
strobist info:
Large softbox camera left about eye level of subject
large softbox camera right for fill.
triggered wth photixx triggers
shots at f5 iso 200 shutter 1/200
The only thing better than landing your personal best yellow margin trigger? Making Moana pose for the hero shot. Note the slight shit eating grin.
For strobists: Canon 580EX on camera left into a small silverwhite umbrella. Triggered with a Canon ST-E2 infrared transmitter. I underexposed the natural light to get some colour and texture in the sky without losing too much detail in the rest of the picture.
Learn how to light at strobist.blogspot.com/2006/02/welcome-to-strobist.html.