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My wife found this wasp crawling out from under the back of my shirt after I finished cooking on the grill. It must have been trying to get warm.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used a artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
Had a nice foggy morning while in Edmonton last weekend so I got up early and looked for a shot like this. There were a few opportunities for it but this one had the light post under it that I liked. Not an easy shot to get.... took a TON of different exposures and settled on this one. A little bit of saturation and contrast boost on PS and here we are!
Trying a different way of using an external camera mounted flash gun for macro shots. Just a sheet of A4 paper folded in half and then two slots about 3cms long cut on both the long sides about halfway down and the paper is bent and stuck at these slot pints to make a slight curve. The paper is mounted on the flash gun as shown using a length of a sticky tape stuck to itself as a strap which is held round the flash and stuck to the paper on both sides. The flash is then used with the head swung away from the lens at an angle of about 30' to 45'
Main reason for trying this was to get more side lighting and hopefully reduce reflections.
This pic was taken using it
So this one is a bit weird. And I do believe I like that. Better weird than boring. Or normal.
Having shot Carré several times now, it's all about getting something new from her, something different or interesting. Of the shots I took, I pretty much dismissed out of hand the shots that were similar to ones I've taken before.
That's the challenge, yeah?
Maybe it's about catching the subtle changes in the model, as time has passed, and things have happened.
Gotta make sure things keep happening in the models' lives.
Maybe I'm that guy that called about the new job. Or the guy that hit your car in the middle of the night.
Maybe you, as a model, are finding your life inexplicably interesting, things keep happening.
That's me. Secretly moving behind the scenes, stirring up the pot that is your life to ensure interesting pictures when we shoot.
Crazy, yes. But also terribly effective.
Here's a question for you photographer folk: What is it you look for when you shoot a model? What is it you're trying to capture?
A shot of Carré I don't quite like, over on the blog: blog.louobedlam.com/post/89020675/almost-this-one-not-hap...
A morning with a massive cloud on the field.
And inside that massive diffuser something beautiful was hiding.
A Mantis with an amazing camouflage ability.
Iphone 5s panorama
Just for fun, the results were not too bad actually!
Nikon D800 + Kenko 36mm Extension Tube + Tamron 90mm + Raynox DCR250
I wanted to experiment with making my own diffuser. In this example I set the white balance to tungsten (on my camera), then held a sheet of A4 white paper in front of the light source (hence the 1.5 second exposure time despite the bulb being inches from the subjects). This allowed me to get the 'sexy' highlight on the headphones which were previously over exposing and looked blown out. I used an F2.8 aperture to get some subtle Bokeh/DoF, a custom Photoshop action to give everything a nice blue/grey look and feel then a serious use of the healing brush to remove all the specs of dust. I was really impressed with the difference that made, even on the iPod's screen which includes the LCD's quite complicated texture.
The camera was tripod mounted and given a timed shutter response to make sure there was no 'camera shake'. Next year I'm definately buying a macro lens, I'm so looking forward to that.
This time, with the upper part of the PET-bottles, covered with toilet paper ... For lighting used two Jansjö LED-lamps.
Home studio stack of 77 shots (1,6 s, F 5, ISO 160) and last shot 8 s, F 11, ISO 160 with MP-E 65 and Canon EOS 40D, stacked in Zerene Stacker.
Mine diffuser for canon macro flash MT-24EX represent combinacion of diffuser's made by @Dalantech (www.flickr.com/photos/dalantech/), @SteB1 (www.flickr.com/photos/9578475@N02/) and @OrionMystery (www.flickr.com/photos/orionmystery/).
I used JJC-FC-26U Flash Diffuser + Gary Fong Puffer (hot glued them together), vellum paper - bubble wrap "sandwich" and plastic holder (cut from the 0,5l Coca Cola bottle).