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My submission to the January "Photographers in Perth" "In Homage" project.
I'm not sure if this is stretching the definition of "In Homage" but this shot was certainly inspired by three people/groups.
First, David Hobby over at Strobist and his CFL picture. He's trying to draw peoples' attention to switch to CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps) from light bulbs, I guess this is the second half of the picture! I admire David's effort in dispensing knowledge about off camera flash and forming the community that he has to promote this idea and I've certainly learned a lot from his posts and "On Assignment" articles. The method of making the bulb float in midair is pretty much identical to what he did (although I used a thin metal rod because I had less space to hide the supports - and of course I only got one try to break the bulb!).
Secondly, Graham_WA and his sound activated strobe photos. I've been meaning to do this sorta thing for a while and seeing Graham's work finally got me off my backside to actually implement it. The actual circuit I used was based on the circuit here.
Finally, Mythbusters and their ingenuity in building devices to solve a problem - in this case, to resemble their hammer swinging rig (Episode 67, original air date November 26, 2006). Sure they get the odd thing wrong (and generally they revisit it anyway) but just the sheer energy and comedy that goes into each episode is great I think.
Strobist info:
Minolta AF4000 strobe below left on minimum power and reflected back by a white sheet on the right, triggered by a homemade audio trigger placed about 30cm away from bulb. Old Starblitz optical slave at camera bottom with blue gel shooting at the black cardboard background. Lightbulb itself is a 100W 240V bulb powered from a 30V current limited power supply (in case the hammers short the bulb out). Exposure was 8 seconds with the bulb broken at about the 7.5 second mark.
More setup details coming soon if there's any interest ...
Sackboy cooking a fish soup.....
Okay, okay, this was of course only a joke! No animals were harmed durimg and after this photo shoot, the goldfishes are of course photoshopped!
(I had a really hard time getting rid of the reflection on the bulb)
Strobist info:
- Nikon SB 24 1/4 power into 40x50 softbox above and behind the subject. Two paper sheets on the left and right, and one paper sheet in front and above the cam to get some fill light on Sackboy.
Trigerred with RF602
(Goldfishes are stock images from: www.sxc.hu/photo/839945)
Week 1 of Joel's lightbulb project.
This is honestly not entirely what I envisioned in my mind. I've been editing this for almost 5 hours now and I figure I should stop and listen to feedback. What are your thoughts on this image? Where can I improve? What do you think of when you see this?
Solar powered lightbulb in a tree in the garden. Collected a bit of water on a rainy day resulting in condensation after an unusually hot sunny day.
SB28 @1/2 + DIY-Softbox right behind
SB28 @ 1/32 bare left behind
white reflector left
60W bulb @1/1 centre;)
I was just playing around with different settings on my camera and ended up with this. a lit lightbulb in a dark room.
Strobist info:
- Elinchrom Quadra lighting from behind
- Elinchrom Quadra with grid above subject
- Elincchrom Skyport EL HS
Hello September! this photo may not fit the theme but I'm proud of this photo that turn out to be this shot I wasn't even thinking of shooting a lightbulb but I found the lightbulb in my pocket and drop in in the snow:)
Before I broke the bulb, I took quite a few shots to make sure the lighting was setup right. Even though this was really a prep shot, I like it.