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DETAILS IM BLOG (IN GERMAN)
fotopraxis.net/2015/07/10/sin-city-2/
NICER VIEWING
F11 and then farm1.staticflickr.com/386/19578768855_c9555876d7_o.jpg
STROBIST
Three manual speedlites: (1) Light blaster projector with a speedlite and with a homemade little slide for the ~Paris~ pattern. This one was on 1/2 power.
(2, 3) Two flashes with in Flashdiscs (> FStoppers) coming from the side to form that light, that is so typical for SINCITY (some sort of double-kicker, I'd say).
EXIF
5d3 with 24-70 at 47 mm and at f/2.8. ISO 250, 1^/125 second. Raw.
EFFECTS
Dryice from the left side, synthetic rain in Photoshop, that's it. :-)
NOTES & TRICKS
I used the YN-622 as focusing aid.
On the projector, I used a EF 17-40 lens.
You can use the multimode, which some flashes have, to do the adjustment for the projector (to get a sort of continuous light).
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Tilo ~gallo~ Gockel, www.fotopraxis.net
Recently I had been thinking of different ways to use the Light Blaster. I'll be posting some of my shots from a recent photoshoot over the next several days.
For this shot, I intended on using the 5D Mark III's multiple exposure feature to imprint a silhouette of a girl against the backdrop of a 35mm transparent slide.
For capturing the multiple exposures, I would first project the slide onto the background using the Light Blaster and then turn off the flash connected to the Light Blaster instead and turn on my rim lights. I'd then placed the model in front of the background so that and set my camera to take a multiple exposure using the Light Blaster shot as a base. We'd usually take several model shots to see if we could get the perfect framing.
Unfortunately, the process proved quite cumbersome to create the multiple exposures in-camera. To do so, I'd have to go into the menu and select the original base image after every single subsequent capture. That proved too time consuming for the limited amount of time we had reserved the venue for. After many in-camera captures, we finally started capturing just the rim-light images with the intent of later combining the background and foreground images in post.
The model shown is Samara Emily Ham (MM#1786384). I've worked with her on several occasions and she is always a pleasure to have in front of the camera.
The background image is a transparent slide from a collection I bought on eBay.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, close to camera axis, shot through a Light Blaster using a transparent 35mm tourist slide. 2 White Lightning Ultrazap 1600s, camera left and right (behind subject), diffused by gridded strip boxes. Flash and monolights triggered via Cybersyncs.
Rosco size E metal gobos will fit in the Lightblaster between 2 pieces of black card, and in this shot I angled the light up from the floor to project this shape on the background.
Model: Kerry Walker
Dress: Metme
Even thought Amanda and I have been together more than a year, we have relatively few good images of us together.
Why? Because if I'm going to do a portrait, I'm going to do it right. And that takes time - a little bit of planning, a decent amount of setup, multiple attempts, equipment breakdown and post-processing. And when you have more than one person in the scene, the number of perfect images captured becomes less.
However, this Valentine's Day we decided to capture a fun image of the two of us together.
As a side note, I've been purchasing old and unique 35mm transparent slides for use with my Light Blaster. One of my post recent acquisitions was a set of title slides that harken back to early days of film. We decided to use one of those slides for our shot, and we both loved the result.
For this shot, I took the chair from my living room and positioned it in the driveway in front of a fence. It was important to shoot the image when the ambient light was relatively low so that the Light Blaster projected image showed up well. That's why we waited until late afternoon to do the setup. It was also important to control how much light from the main light spilled onto the background, so that's why I chose a softbox (which was feathered to barely hit us) and set the rim light to a tight zoom.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, behind subjects, diffused by a Light Blaster with the Sigma 35mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens attached. 1 Canon 580EX, camera right, diffused by a 24" Adorama Glow collapsible softbox. 1 Lumopro LP180, camera right (behind subjects), zoomed to 105mm, bare, used as a rim light. Flashes triggered via Cybersyncs. Camera triggered via Canon RC-1 wireless remote.
Model: Fia Rouge
Strobist info: Profoto strobe with softbox on each side of the model. Each is walled off from the background.
Godox V860c Speedlite on a Lightblaster behind the model..
Monday night I was in the studio testing a very cool lighting tool called the LIGHT BLASTER.
For More info have a look at my blog or on face book.
www.facebook.com/scottlewisphotography
Strobist Info: Light Blaster with 35mm slide projected onto a white background. Strip light camera right flagged so there is no spill onto the background.
Now that I have a little extra room to work with, I've recently been playing around with the Light Blaster again. This shot proved especially challenging to set up because you have to obtain focus 1) with the camera (easy), and 2) with the lens attached to the LB (harder).
After several trial and error attempts left me nowhere near focused on my face, I decided to mark the exact place to stand on the floor and set up a reflector in my stead. I had to put a piece of gaffer tape where my eyes would be (on the reflector) in order for the camera's AF to have something to lock onto. But after that, I was able to quickly dial in the LB lens's focus with a few test shots.
I tried several variants of this setup including blowing out the background with no rim lights, using only the LB flash (no rim lights), and then using only the LB and a couple of rim lights (which produced my favorite result seen above). Because the LB was positioned high and pointed downward, the light it projects does not hit the background (about 6' from where I'm standing). This enabled me to achieve a very dark background without distracting clutter (or patterns) while maintaining an interesting pattern on my face. The position of the rim lights helped to clearly define the shape of my head while not destroying the detail in the projected pattern very much (as expected, a little bit of projection is lost on the sides of my head).
Overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I think it'll make a good Facebook cover photo (when I decide to change it).
Strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, above camera, diffused by a Light Blaster. 2 Canon 580EXs, camera right and left (behind subject), bare, used as rim lights. Flashes triggered via Cybersyncs. Setup shot here.
Part 4.
Today we recorded some final scenes for our new instructional video "Mastering the model shoot 3 : creativity"
Here are some quick teasers from today.
In the video I explain all the techniques of course, important to know ALL effects are done in camera.
Model/styling : Nadine
#ElinchromLTD #sonyimaging #lightblaster
A tribute to someone who fell to Earth from the same planet as me, and who returned there two months ago.
He'd turn 31 this Halloween.
"I hope you're waiting for me
across your carpet of stars"
This is a recreation of Urs Recher's "Mission Impossible" shot. I wanted to see if I could do this with gear that cost less than £10k :P
One Lightblaster with a circular gobo, focused by a Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 lens. One Stripbox for fill. 2 Lencarta SF600 lights, and one uber talented and athletic model.
Model: Keira Lavelle
Assistant: John Gannon
Shot at: Joel Hicks Photographic
Monday night I was in the studio testing a very cool lighting tool called the LIGHT BLASTER.
For More info have a look at my blog or on face book.
www.facebook.com/scottlewisphotography
Strobist Info: Light Blaster with 35mm slide projected onto a white background. Strip light camera right flagged so there is no spill onto the background.
Wes is a university professor and a good friend.
During a recent visit, we had a few hours to kill while his girlfriend ran some errands in town.
"How about an impromptu portrait session?" I asked. Wes readily agreed.
I originally set up an Impact Black/White background and shot some profile shots on black (I've apparently been on a profile view kick lately). One in particular made him look a lot like Steve Jobs. But I didn't want him to look like Jobs; I wanted Wes to look like Wes. Plus, I wanted to add some flair to the image...so out came the Light Blaster.
I flipped the Impact Black/White background so that the Light Blaster wouldn't have to work so hard to create the projected image. We tried a few different slides but a touristy one of the Parthenon (acquired by eBay) turned out to be my favorite.
When I see this image, I interpret it as Wes being a modern day conqueror. It looks like he's just laid waste to the land behind him and he's deciding his next move. I think his gaze helps sell the story.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, camera left, diffused by a gridded 24" Glow Collapsible softbox (feathered to keep from striking the background). 1 Lumopro LP180, camera right, diffused by a gridded 24" Lastolite EzyBox (feathered to keep from striking the background). 1 Canon 580EX, slightly camera left, shot through a Light Blaster (with Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art attached) creating the image projected onto the Impact 5x7 Collapsible Background. Flashes triggered via Cybersyncs.
I have been working on an old photo look. For a project I shot this week (those photos are still raw) and this the what I have so far.
P.S. these photos are from a studio 101 workshop we ran in the lightGIANTS studio
I love this classic movie star look, perfected back in the day by George Hurrell and still shot today by Studio Harcourt in Paris.
All hard lights, flagged with barn doors and black foam core, this look requires very targeted lighting.
One of the advantages of shooting mono is that you can pretty much mix in any light source, and here we're using 3 tungsten hotlights for the key and the two kicker lights at the back. The fill light is provided by a Viltrox 116t LED panel aimed down into a white foam core board down below. The backdrop is projected using a YN565 speedlight inside the Spiffy Gear LightBlaster with a Rosco size E metal gobo inside it.
Recently I had been thinking of different ways to use the Light Blaster. I'll be posting some of my shots from a recent photoshoot over the next several days.
For this part of the session, I intended on using the Lightblaster to project the slide onto the model but not onto the background. Using a white piece of fabric for the background, I had the subject stand in front of the background with the projection aimed squarely at her. I used two monolights with softboxes pointed at the bacground to wash out the projection so that it wasn't visible on the background.
The model shown is Samara Emily Ham (MM#1786384). I've worked with her on several occasions and she is always a pleasure to have in front of the camera.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, near camera axis, shot through a Light Blaster. I also used two rim White Lightning 1600s positioned behind the subject (right and left), pointed at the background in order to blow out the projection. Flashes and/or monolights triggered via Cybersyncs.
Monday night I was in the studio testing a very cool lighting tool called the LIGHT BLASTER.
For More info have a look at my blog or on face book.
www.facebook.com/scottlewisphotography
Strobist Info: Light Blaster with 35mm slide projected onto a white background. Strip light camera right flagged so there is no spill onto the background.
www.samgoldphotography.comStrobist Info: Two speedlights used; first- camera right, above me ~45 degrees and shot through a translucent umbrella, second- behind me, camera right, and shot through a Lightblaster with a sample of grid material inside. Yongnuo flashes (YN 560II-slave-in lightblaster, YN560III-triggered) and wireless trigger (RF-602).
top picture clean jpg Blaster on the back 1,60m from the wall with 17mm 2.8lens strob set on 1/16 power, front softbox with the grid flash set on 1/8 camera top right more here maciekpp.blogspot.ie/2013/07/it-is-blasting-time.html
Part 3.
Today we recorded some final scenes for our new instructional video "Mastering the model shoot 3 : creativity"
Here are some quick teasers from today.
In the video I explain all the techniques of course, important to know ALL effects are done in camera.
Model/styling : Nadine
#elinchromltd #sonyimaging #lightblaster
Film Noir shoot number 2 with the BTCR photo crew and our principal actor Caspar Braithwaite :)
This time I wanted to explore the look of a downward shaft of light used so effectively in many noir movies, and in Ridley Scott's Bladerunner, which to me is "noir in colour". You need some haze. I don't have a specific haze machine, but if you leave regular fog to marinate for a while it evens out nicely. A pop-up reflector can speed up the fog mixing process. The light shaft and nice sharp shadows is produced by my trusty Lightblaster: a small spot projector for speed-lights that I really love. I've got a 16-35mm lens at 24mm on it for this from a height of about 4m. The light is held up by my Lencarta C-Stand with extension arm and even though the light on it is not heavy, I put a 5kg mass on the opposite leg.
Shooting through a spot projector and a lot of haze is a lot to ask of a Speed-light powered by 4 AA batteries. However, I've found pushing a 600w-s studio head through the Lightblaster actually produces much less light than using a Speed-light zoomed in - it's just the shape of the flash tubes - those studio lights have big round tubes that just aren't over the hole the light needs to go down... The first set of batteries were too hot to hold when they were done. 5 Photographers all shooting one Speed-light 1/1 will make that happen :)
Incidentally, we learned a few things about Yongnuo radio triggers on this shoot: the Yongnuo YN622 transceivers for Nikon will work just fine as triggers on a Canon camera - for basic centre pin firing only. However, the YN622C-TX for Canon, on a Canon camera, will not talk to the Nikon version of the YN622 acting as a receiver on the light.
Shooting on f/5.6 and ISO 400 means reducing the ambient light as much as possible, however it's not too bad and drawing the curtains turned out to be sufficient.
In this shot we have Caspar Braithwaite as Rick Dangerous in the back, and Iain Nicol as the guy in the chair - making nice shadows on the floor :)
Thanks to the BTCR Photo club regulars: Iain Nicol, Joe Foster, Brian Sanger, Jo Sellars and to Caspar for another fantastic performance as our tough guy private eye.
Playing around with various backgrounds. This one from a Rosco gobo in the Lightblaster.
3 x 650 Watt Fresnel hot-lights with barn doors closed to thin slots. Key light to the front with some cine-foil reducing the height of the slot to keep it off the background. Hair lights left and right up high.
I put a blue gel in the Lightblaster to put the background on a different colour channel. This allows me to adjust it up and down in post. Normally, I would have each light on a separate colour for mono, but these lights are not called "hot-lights" for nothing. Even the high temp gels would melt :)
Model: Kataryzna Sprengel
Assistant: John Gannon
Bryan challenged me to create a more powerful example of using the Light Blaster as the main light. And I'm glad he did.
For this image, I'm using a projection of a scale model of ancient Rome. Even though I tried to prevent the projection from striking the background (by positioning it high and pointing it downward), some of the projection appeared in the lower part of my frame. Instead of cropping it out, I decided to paint the out-of-focus projection areas yellow (using a new layer set to Color blend mode and masking out the areas where the "flames" do not appear).
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, above (and slightly in front of) camera, shot through a Spiffy Gear Light Blaster with a Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens attached. 2 Canon 580EX flashes, camera left and right (behind subject), gridded, used as rim lights. Flashes triggered via Cybersyncs. Setup shot here.
Recently I had been thinking of different ways to use the Light Blaster. I'll be posting some of my shots from a recent photoshoot over the next several days.
For this shot, I intended on using the 5D Mark III's multiple exposure feature to imprint a silhouette of a girl against the backdrop of a 35mm transparent slide.
For capturing the multiple exposures, I would first project the slide onto the background using the Light Blaster and then turn off the flash connected to the Light Blaster instead and turn on my rim lights. I'd then placed the model in front of the background so that and set my camera to take a multiple exposure using the Light Blaster shot as a base. We'd usually take several model shots to see if we could get the perfect framing.
Unfortunately, the process proved quite cumbersome to create the multiple exposures in-camera. To do so, I'd have to go into the menu and select the original base image after every single subsequent capture. That proved too time consuming for the limited amount of time we had reserved the venue for. After many in-camera captures, we finally started capturing just the rim-light images with the intent of later combining the background and foreground images in post.
One of the models shown is Samara Emily Ham (MM#1786384). I've worked with her on several occasions and she is always a pleasure to have in front of the camera. The other is Haley, the girl that accompanied Samara to the shoot.
The background image is a transparent slide from a collection I bought on eBay. After we captured a cool shot of Haley with a hair flip, we decided to try the same with both models at the same time. I liked the pairing with this slide because it is reminiscent of the swinging 60s and 70s.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, close to camera axis, shot through a Light Blaster using a transparent 35mm tourist slide. 2 White Lightning Ultrazap 1600s, camera left and right (behind subject), diffused by gridded strip boxes. Flash and monolights triggered via Cybersyncs.
Claudia during the workshop with the #lightblaster on #phottix
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While shooting some headshots for Brittney, a local Savannah model, we thought it might be fun to experiment with the Light Blaster after the "normal" headshots had been taken.
For this shot, we used the Light Blaster to create the background image (projected onto a black background).
And yes, in hindsight, the direction of the main light bothers me a bit. I wish I had mirrored the background image and placed the subject on the left side so that the light direction (at least as it pertains to right/left, not front/back) would have been the same.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, above camera, diffused by a 24" gridded softbox (pointed downward). 1 Canon 580EX, below camera, diffused by a collapsible white umbrella (low power, fill). 1 Canon 580EX, left of subject, fired into a Spiffy Gear Light Blaster with transparent slide. Flashes triggered via Cybersyncs. A collapsible black background was used.
Back when I first aquired the Light Blaster I began shopping for various slides that I could use for projection purposes.
Readily available were tourist slides originally marketed to those enjoying a European vacation. I enjoy using them with the Light Blaster, but I also enjoy just looking through them. They are like tiny windows through which Europe and other interesting destinations can be seen just beyond the glass.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, just left of the tripod mounted camera, shot through a Light Blaster with slide in place. A Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens was used on the LB. Flash triggered via Cybersyncs; camera triggered via Canon RC-1.
Recently I had been thinking of different ways to use the Light Blaster. I'll be posting some of my shots from a recent photoshoot over the next several days.
For this shot, I intended on using the 5D Mark III's multiple exposure feature to imprint a silhouette of a girl against the backdrop of a 35mm transparent slide.
For capturing the multiple exposures, I would first project the slide onto the background using the Light Blaster and then turn off the flash connected to the Light Blaster instead and turn on my rim lights. I'd then placed the model in front of the background so that and set my camera to take a multiple exposure using the Light Blaster shot as a base. We'd usually take several model shots to see if we could get the perfect framing.
Unfortunately, the process proved quite cumbersome to create the multiple exposures in-camera. To do so, I'd have to go into the menu and select the original base image after every single subsequent capture. That proved too time consuming for the limited amount of time we had reserved the venue for. After many in-camera captures, we finally started capturing just the rim-light images with the intent of later combining the background and foreground images in post.
By the way - this wasn't even the model that I scheduled the session with. This was the model's friend (Haley) that simply accompanied the original model to the shoot. She saw how great the images were coming out and decided to try a few of her own.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, close to camera axis, shot through a Light Blaster using a transparent 35mm tourist slide. 2 White Lightning Ultrazap 1600s, camera left and right (behind subject), diffused by gridded strip boxes. Flash and monolights triggered via Cybersyncs.
I decided to create some custom slides for my new LightBlaster. There was a bit of a learning curve to the process, but I've pretty much got it figured out now.
One of the custom slides I created has a Matrix font on it. I thought it turned out fairly well. After making the slide, however, I decided that adding some motion blur to the letters and offsetting the vertical rows would look better. Oh well, that's for another time...
I was inspired to take this shot after picking up a pair of Julbo sunglasses. They're the same brand that Jamie Hyneman wears occasionally on the Mythbusters (thought not the same model).
strobist: 1 580EX, camera right, diffused by a Westcott Rapid Box Octa (which was bounced off the ceiling in front of me). 2 580EXs, camera right and left (behind subject), gridded and used for rimlight. 1 580EX in Lightblaster, gelled yellow (placed just above camera, slightly right).