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Look for something very small to make a good macro but I realized that I have no glass so opt for the cup.
In the background I put a black cardboard, lower the blind of the room and I did a thousand tests, this one I liked because the white reflections I made with a flashlight that I went moving in front of the glass.
Tips to improve it, I think I have problems with sharpness.
Greetings and good week
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Busque algo muy pequeño para hacer un buen macro pero me he dado cuenta que no tengo nada de cristal por eso opte por la copa.
De fondo puse una cartulina negra , baje la persiana de la habitación e hice mil pruebas ,ésta me gustó porque los reflejos blancos los hice con una linterna que fui moviendo delante de la copa.
Consejos para mejorarla , creo que tengo problemas con la nitidez.
Saludos y buena semana
#macromonday #glass
Hello!
This is the result of the weekly challenge, it has little bokeh effect but I didn't put the lights right I think they had to be more extended and farther away...but I'll learn.
I have put the base of the cup because with the year we have spent that less than being able to toast so that next year will be as positive as possible and toast for those who are not there.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
And take care!
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Hola!
Éste es el resultado del reto semanal, tiene poco efecto bokeh pero no puse las luces bien creo que tenian que estar mas extendidas y mas lejos..pero bueno aprenderé.
He puesto la base de la copa porque con el año que hemos pasado que menos que poder brindar para que el proximo año sea lo mas positivo posible y brindar por los que no están.
¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo !
Y cuidense!
Reto Círculos | Macro Monday
Pensé que no me quedarían tan circulares pero ..!! ¡será el aceite de mi tierra!😉
Bandeja de cristal sobre algo que la eleve para poner debajo algo de color , en este caso puse una de mis fotografias de flick en la tablet.
Agua y aceite y moverlo para ver cómo se forman los círculos y buscar los que te gusten.
Luz lateral con un solo flash.
¡Saludos!
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Circles Challenge | Macro Monday
I thought that they would not be so circular but ...!!! it will be the oil of my land!😉
Glass tray on something that raises it to put underneath something colorful, in this case I put one of my flick pictures on the tablet.
Water and oil and move it around to see how the circles form and look for the ones you like.
Side light with a single flash.
Bathroom , I turn on the brush and I mess a good one.Touch clean
Here is the proposal for this challenge, it is actually a mixture of bath and water.
Made on black surface that creates good reflections, illuminated with a led on the left of the picture.
Wet brush in fact if you get too close you can see drops of water (what a pity that I realized later upss!!) and then with a spray I wet the whole scene, accompanied by my figures hoscale.
Greetings and happy week!
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Baño , se encendió el cepillo y se lio una buena.Toca limpiar
Aquí va la propuesta para este reto, en realidad es una mezcla de baño y agua .
Realizada sobre superficie negra que crea buenos reflejos, iluminada con un led a la izquierda de la fotografía.
Cepillo humedecido de hecho si acercas mucho se ven gotas de agua (que pena que me di cuenta despues upss!! ) y luego con un spray moje toda la escena, acompañada de mis figuras hoscale.
Saludos y feliz semana!
Amor eterno ¿ en la riqueza y en la pobreza?
La pareja y el arroz simboliza el amor ,sobre una moneda de dos euros para simbolizar la pobreza, he rodeado al escena con mas monedas para representar la riqueza.
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Eternal love in wealth and poverty?
The couple and rice symbolizes love, on a coin of two euros to symbolize poverty, I have surrounded the scene with more coins to represent wealth.
#MacroMondays #OnACoin
En la imagen se ve la arandela de un cúter circular.
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In the image you can see the washer of a circular cutter
Photo taken for the Macro Mondays challenge this week, "Eye(s)."
I built "Sparky Bear" in a specialty store a few years ago and noticed him sitting in wonderful lighting today, as we unpack our belongings in our new home. I think he likes his new home since he has a sparkle in his eye. :)
HMM to all
Having some fun with this week's Macro Mondays assignment, hoping it puts a smile on your face. Say cheese! HMM
Photo taken for the RNPS Macro challenge.
For this challenge I thought it would be fun to take pictures of a model car (Scalextric) as if it were a real car.
I used a E500 DSLR with a 50mm f/1.4 OM lens and adapter with a couple of screw on close up lenses (+3 or +4 can't remember).
Some pins & cards, waiting to be used during a facilitation session.
Strobist info: Lit from above with snooted Metz 54M-3 on about 1/64.
Strobist: Home made cardboard snoot on one SB-800 at about 135 degrees camera left. Unsnooted SB-800 90 degrees camera right. Both set to manual 1/8 power and fired using Nikon CLS. D200 set to manual - 1/250th @ f18. Black foamboard background. Nikon 18-200 VR with Kenko extension tube.
Learn how to light at Strobist.
remote flash is located at the bottom of a transparent table set at full. Built in flash with a tissue placed over it to diffuse it a bit. And good ol Extension tubes.
A potential product shot for a client turned into the perfect opportunity to go Strobist style for this one.
Strobist info:
Black framing matt behind tap to hide grout lines in tiles. 550EX in draining board, camera right set to 1/64 @ 10inchs from tap end. Camera setting was iso100 1/200th F9.
Fired by radio triggers (Bowens Pulsar).
The low flash power setting enabled me to shoot in rapid single bursts (one shot mode), got 6 shots off which I was impressed with, didn't think the flash would recycle quick enough.
Was good fun and I learned something new....again.
Tried to think of something other than flowers for this Strobist Challenge.
Macro of my bike chain. I had the SB-600 laying on the ground. Purple foam bounce card to reflect the flash up. Fired by ebay trigger. No photoshop other than crop.
"Baby, until the day I met you, I felt like my heart was frozen in carbonite..."
(Hey kids! Caption your Boba Fett appropriate love protestations in comments below...)
So, this is my entry for Strobist Challenge #7: Macro & off-camera flash. At first, I wanted to try doing a shot set in my wife's childhood dollhouse, but thought it would be too difficult to light (essentially, three walls set up that you can't light around). Then, at her suggestion, I had a little setup with a dollhouse settee, carpet, and a couple books, but couldn't compose it in such a way so that it didn't look cluttered. Eventually I settled on this.
Setup shot here.
Many thanks to my lovely wife for her help with ideas, and doing the teeny tiny lettering for this book. I have stubby fingers. No way I coulda done that. Also my dad, who has been too long without the use of his macro lens. (Ahem - honey, about that... ;) )
"103" model locomotive at the Loxx model railway exhibition. Class 103 locomotives were in service for Deutsche Bahn from 1970 to 2003. They had a power of up to 10,400 kW, the record speed was 285 km/h. In regular traffic they pulled high-speed trains with a mass of up to 600 tons with 200 km/h.
This photograph was my winning entry for the Macro/Closeup Challenge 14, "Toys and Models", of the "Digital Photography Review" discussion forum in October 2005.
Using a paper tent as "studio" with some black and white sheets of paper to optimize difussion and reflection as learned in Light Science&Magic book
New Zealand's currency has long been called the "Kiwi dollar", after the country's most famous bird. That bird now graces the dollar coin, enshrining the name in gold.
Strobist info: 580EX on a lightstand, 1/16 power 90 degrees to right of camera, with cereal box snoot aimed at the coin. Canon 177A with two blue gels, pointed at white background, with McDonald's plastic teaspoons and the photographer's fingers as cookies. Both fired with ghetto triggers.
Learn how to light at Strobist.
grid spot on sb-80dx, camera right 7 ft up @ 2:00, snooted sb-28 @ 5:00, behind camera, small mirror behind figure to open shadow detail, lensbaby macro @f4 1/60th
sb600 somewhere around 45 degree camera left, bounced off ceiling, with a small reflector to get a little light underneath him.
Close up of my Tamron 17-50mm using my 70-300mm vr lens with an Oly close up filter. Used SB-800 camera left, about 90 degrees, fired by on camera flash through CLS. SB-800 set to TTL, on camera flash set to "--".
My daughters made this fruit basket, and the fruit, etc. i it with sculpey. This was shot in a small Igloo ice chest, a la mmikee's "Light Tent" idea.
Set up shot shows the location of the strobe. Triggered via ebay trigger. 1/200, f13, 135mm.
Taken for the Strobist Challenge #7 - Macro and off-camera flash.
I'd originally planned something completely different for this challenge, but it just didn't work as a macro shot. Plans to photography flowers or insects in the garden didn't get off the ground, so I thought I'd try something simple instead as the deadline is looming.
To make it more fun, I thought I'd try a technique I'd seen in a book I picked up last year (Still LIfe and Special Effects Photography, by Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz). The technique is demonstrated in a photo by Maurizio Polverelli, and uses a softbox and black bounce card sandwich to create soft directional light.
I'm not sure it really makes much difference here. In fact, I suspect there may well have been other, better ways of lighting this dime*. I did some experimentation (replacing the black bounce card with a white bounce card, and using a white bounce card to the left of the coin), but this was the version I was most happy with.
* Why did I use a dime, you ask, seeing as I'm British? Because a 10 eurocent piece was too big. I actually wanted to use the ha'penny I found down the back of the piano a while back, but I can't find it!
So, the lighting details:
One SB-25 on full power, zoomed out to 24mm, fitted with DIY softbox, placed to camera right. The front of the softbox is parallel to the plane of the coin, and about 3cm above it. Below the softbox is a sheet of black A4 card. Flash is triggered by a set of Elinchrom Skyports. More black A4 card is used to block reflected light from the right and below (the coin is actually on a large black tile inclined at 30 degrees to horizontal - so reflections of the desk were a problem (and in fact still are - but the image is desaturated to remove them!)).
Check the setup shot for more details, including a slightly better description of the softbox.
Am I happy with the shot? No, not really. But it was an interesting experiment that I think was worth sharing. (If it didn't have to be a new shot for submission, I'd have posted one of the Ladybird shots I did last month, as I'm far happier with those.)
Edited: I replaced the original version with the same shot, but having reduced the contrast (to better show the shadow of the coin) and desaturated it (to remove the orange/brown reflections of the desk).
shot in a Rubbermaid tote as mini studio.
flexible transluscent cutting board is sweep / backdrop.
halogen worklights left and right
SB27 and wein optical trigger are above.
See setup www.flickr.com/photos/captoe/474164768/
USM, saturation, and levels in post
One SB800 camera left, bouncing off ceiling, one SB80DX behind leaves with Joe Demb diffuser, One SB80DX camera right on tripod with home made diffuser. Triggered by Pocket wizard. Flash settings were fairly high to maintain f22 (for DOF)
This photo taken with my D50 and pocket wizard
22/30
The boy has to pick up everything! He found this on the banks of the Red River. From my files, taken 11/07
So I evaded all my taxes, but where did my money go? Oh yeah, I've got a sweet tooth :)
Strobist information:
Equipment:
- Nikon D200 (at f/16)
- Nikkor 60/2.8
- Sunpak auto 331
- Nikon Sb-28
- Nikon Sb-600 + DIY snoot
- 1 wireless trigger & 3 PT04 wireless receivers
- DIY lighttent
Setup:
- Sb-28 on tripod left of the lighttent (90 degrees from camera), positioned above the lighttent (aimed directly at the lighttent)
-Sunpak on tripod right of the lighttent, opposing the Sb-28 ( aimed directly at the lighttent)
- Sb-600 snoot pointing into the lighttent, handheld.
