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Following on from Saturday's tulip shot (and still stealing ideas from nz_snapper's lighting blog - nzsnapper.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/before-and-after/), I've had a go at a highkey flower shot. This is was taken inside my little light tent (a Christmas pressie), balanced on a clear plastic tub with a secondary flash underneath and the primary flash above.
It's been tweaked a little in Elements to make the background 'whiter than white'. :)
Foto en GRANDE con Fondo NEGRO
Orden: Cuculiformes
Flia: Cuculidae
Genero: Clamator
Nombre común: Crialo europeo
Nombre científico: Clamator glandarius
Nombre ingles: Great Spotted Cuckoo
Lugar de Captura: Extremadura, España
Por: Cimarron mayor Panta.
BAJO LA ULTIMA LUZ DORADA DEL DIA ENTRE CACERES Y TORREJON!
Iba a mil por la carretera entre Cáceres y Torrejon cuando de pronto veo un movimiento a la orilla de la carretera y era que las Rabilargos le estaban dando una pela a este impostor!!
Lo reconocí de inmediato y era un GRAN LIFER para mi. Asi que reversa hacia atrás, aguantando todas las malas palabras del mundo y ahí voy con mi canuto desde el coche. El ave se balanceaba sobre ese fino alambre que escogió de percha y las rabilargos arremetían contra el a sabienda que es su gran enemigo y que solo estaba acechando su descuido para meterle sus huevos pues este tampoco hace nido, ni incuba huevos y mucho menos se va a poner de tonto a traer insectos para sus crías. Este se libera de toda responsabilidad paterna y se los deja a su mayor parasitado que son las Urracas y otros Corvidos como los son las Rabilargos.
Los primeros críalos que vuelven a España durante el mes de febrero, pasarían desapercibidos si no fuera por sus ruidosas persecuciones. Ocultos en el espeso follaje de un alcornoque permanecen inmóviles, al acecho, durante mucho tiempo, espiando los menores movimientos de las vecinas urracas. Estas van comenzando la construcción de sus nidos, y los críalos se aprestan a parasitizarlos. Al menor descuido de una urraca que incuba su puesta, la hembra de críalo deposita uno o más huevos en el nido de aquélla, pudiendo a la vez picar alguno de los huevos que se encontraban ya en el nido.
El pollo de críalo no expulsa del nido los huevos y los pollos de sus padres adoptivos, como hace el cuco.
Aunque principalmente parasitizan a las urracas, se citan casos de huevos de críalo en nidos de otros córvidos, como en los del Cuervo, la Corneja Común y el Rabilargo. El viaje a Africa para invernar parece que lo realizan por separado jóvenes y adultos; éstos pueden empezar su migración ya en pleno junio, mientras que aquéllos permanecen más tiempo en España.
Bueno, aquí tiene al gran pillo del Crialo Europeo!
Un gran abrazo de Cimarron mayor Panta
Un foglio di carta 60x30 bucato con uno spillo e poi colorato di nero. Il foglio è poi appoggiato su un pannello led e l’immagine appare una volta accesa la luce
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These pictures are from our June 2017 trip to Mammoth Lakes and surrounding lakes in the Eastern Sierra Mountains, California, June 2017. More pictures from this album are posted here.
I got a couple of requests to post a picture of the lightbox and details on how Todd made it. Thing is, Todd is the kind of guy who sees something he wants and figures out how to make it, using instructions only as a guideline. Sometimes he doesn't even use the instructions (for instance, last summer he saw an outdoor plant stand in a magazine. He figured he could build a better one for less money. One hour later, he did it.)
Keep in mind Todd had no idea what a lightbox was for. He saw one in one of those inflight magazines on our way to California and figured it was something I could use. Yesterday, he was in one of his "let's create something" moods so he decided to look up how to build your own lightbox (because I told him it was ridiculous to spend the kind of money they wanted for the one in the magazine).
These are the instructions he used as his guideline. For the most part, we winged it. We went to A.C. Moore craft store in the morning, looking for some of the supplies needed. They had no Bristol board, so we used poster board (cheaper). They had no fabric, so we substituted with white t-shirts (on sale for $3 each - we used three). We had intended on buying one of those pre-made boxes at a UPS store, but instead drove around the back of a row of stores and grabbed a good (non food-used) box out of the garbage (free!). We got the reflector lights at Home Depot, as well as the bulbs (it said to use n-vision 90 watt, but they didn't have that number, so we got one 75 watt soft and one 75 watt bright - you can always change these out - and the bulbs were the most expensive thing we had to buy).
Then he sort of went on his own from there. He rigged one of the lights using an old tripod we had in the and he put the other on the tripod from a telescope that was laying around in the garage (I forgot we even had that!). I experimented a lot with moving the lights around and taking them off and on the tripods. There are really a lot of different ways you can set this up, depending on how you want your shot to look - you can also change the color of the paper/bristol board you have inside - I haven't done that yet but I will probably experiment with that tonight. I'm also going to buy a few different watt bulbs and play around with the lighting.
There are a LOT of sites out there that will teach you how to get the most out of your lightbox, but I think the most important thing is adjusting your white balance on your camera settings so the pictures don't get a yellowish tone.
Also, think about the shape of your box before you make it. Mine is a shallow height, because I will use it mostly to take macros of small stuff like action figures. You might want to make yours taller, if you plan on taking photos of larger things. I might get Todd to make another box for me that's bigger.
Hope this helped (I'm trying to rush this out before I leave for work, so sorry if it's all over the place and not helpful at all), if you want more details email me, but definitely check out that link. The instructions are pretty cut and dry.
for those that have asked about this.
Corona box with baking paper taped across front. i found the waxy surface diffuses light very evenly. the inside of the box is lined wit aluminum foil. i just cut a hole the size of the sb800 nose out of the base and used another bit of cardboard to reinforce the area.
It took me about 15 minutes to build this lightbox from scratch. It cost about $80 with the bulbs, shop lights, foam core board and white gaffer's tape (which took me all day to locate at $28 a roll). But this experiment worked well. I hope to use it to shoot products for any websites we design.
something i took for my photo final centered around being awake when other people are not
(looking at it in lightbox helps)
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also i'm in love with the flare from headlights
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
Just trying out my lightbox with some of my gear - 40D+grip, 85L
Info: sb-28 left and right 1/16 power, shot through white paper, several sheets used for background.
Nikon D300S
Sigma 105mm. macro EX
F14 2sec.
200 ISO
Treppiede Manfrotto 055XPROB
Testa Manfrotto 488RCO
Micnova Remote Switch
Lightbox
A new exhibition opened today at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking with sculptures and art inspired by those sculptures. I enjoyed the exhibition and also enjoyed the patterns created by the shadows and the Perspex display boxes. This is a Barbara Hepworth piece. One of the artists who had been invited to produce works turned up to see the gallery and it was interesting to talk to her about her drawings inspired by this Hepworth sculpture.
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
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Some test photos using the new light box.
It's supposed to be color corrected to 5000K, whatever that means. Not sure my camera plays nice with it, but that's for other people to fix, not me.
On explore September 26, 2007
Looking at Yosemite Valley, CA.
This was taken right before dusk. This camera was
set up by another photographer waiting for the sun to set.
I increased the brightness a little, no cropping.
View large size for more detail.
It's that time of the year when the light has simply gone away to be replaced by grey skies powered by a 40 watt bulb.
Yesterday this really hit me and it was incredibly hard to get any energy up for the work I was doing, so today I'm trying this lightbox (actually a proper drawing lightbox, upended) plus the main light on.
So far, so good!
Un altra prova de llum amb la lightbox :)
Otra prueba de luz con la lightbox :)
Another light test with the lightbox :)
Explored!!...sí, però ¿¿perquè?? No entenc a la burra :-D
This simple lightbox setup consists of a translucent box, a utility lamp with a daylight fluorescent bulb, and white posterboard for a background. I also purchased some cheap white crepe fabric ffor $2 in case I needed to diffuse the light a bit more. With fabric, box, and lamp, bulb, and two large sheets of posterboard, I spent less than $25. I suspect it can be done even cheaper if you already have a lamp.
Here is the lightbox that I assembled. It cost very little... with excellent results. Supply List: 2 20x30x1/2" Foam Board ($1.99/each). 3 20x30x3/8" Foam Board ($0.99/each). 4 Sheets of Tracing Paper ($0.80). 1 Roll of 18" wide easel paper ($3.99). 2 500w Halogen lights ($9.29/each). Light box was put together with none other than white Duct Tape. Hope you like. I got the whole idea from www.photography-on-the.net.
More experiments with the lightbox and im unimpressed, color is hard to get right and there is glare where i don't want it, i think i need to just stick to natural light