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I got myself some LED lights ... a couple of spots and a ring light ... to tinker around with ... I have a kind of 'pop-up' studio and I wanted to see what sort of effects you can achieve without lots of fancy equipment ... this image ... of my lovely friend Amy ... was achieved by running some black pallet wrap from the edge of the ring light to a wire suspended behind Amy ... I quite like the effect!
Today's macro monday theme was 'Eyes' and all the obvious variations had already been done, and done well.
My wife remembered though that we had a bag of googly eyes in the craft box, which rescued me at the last minute!
HMM!
Today we made a construction for my ringlight so I can put it on a tripod in front of the camera. On the other photo's I had to hold it in my hand, wich is not handy ;).
Emiel had a stand-by day today, wich was a nice suprise. He had a call from his boss that monday probably will be an allnighter. So we're gonna relax this weekend. Sunday we're going to Wieke and Herman (www.dropproductions.nl/ and www.wiekevanwerkhoven.nl )
I'm looking forward to it!
As u can see I did a Bimbo shoot today ;)
model: Ava
A nature loving girl incubates robin's eggs in a nest she keeps on her head
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I have this LED ringlight that I've had forever. It does interesting things with other lenses. So what better to use for a photo of a lens. At this point, the only lens that I have that has 52mm thread is the Nikon. So, it gets to play.
Picture created with a DIY RingFlash . Single shot no flash just the ringlight. Going for a crazy sci-fi look.
For the strobist group. I used the same setup for:
www.flickr.com/photos/jwlphotography/1413245603/ and www.flickr.com/photos/jwlphotography/1414123332/
Dang', this was a mighty fun shoot...
Another shot from the January 27th, PDX Strobist meeting in Portland, Oregon. This image features the very fun, enthusiastic, and up-for-just-about-anything "Ameana Acid:" one of the roller girls with the Northwest's Rose City Rollers.
Strobist info: Like my photo of Aimee, this was keyed with a homemade ringlight (built by hot glue gunning Christmas Tree lights onto a masonite shiny board). The background is slightly illuminated by a Vivitar 285 that's been heavily gelled and powered down.
Sidenote: The Christmas Tree Ringlight creates the coolest reflections (in eyes, goggles, helmets, whatever) that I've ever seen from a "ringlight-like device."
Some drops of water sweating from a cold beverage pooled on a plastic housing. This animal strolled over and stuck its proboscis into the droplet. It was probably guzzling for over ten minutes, so I took the opportunity to shoot a few portraits.
This was shot with a manual focus 1970s Nikkor 55mm f3.5 macro. At first, I tried using a LED flashlight: no go. Years ago I bought this junk-grade LED ring light on the Internet for about US$40. It was used in this shot. The ring light makes this raspy, specular light. By taping a piece of paper over it, the light gets softened and diffused a little. The animal is black but the ring light blasts it rendering this odd gray/blue.
After drinking its fill, it walked away from the droplet. It was so full of water, it seemed to be having trouble walking. I picked it up and carried it outside.
Our religion asks that we give something back to nature in thanks for everything we use — the crops we grow and the birds and animals that share our world. For us, the Spirit and the commonplace are one.
— Gerald Baker, Mandan-Hidatsa
Journalism grade image.
Source: cropped from a 4200x2800 16-bit TIF file.
Please do not copy this image for any purpose.
The welcome return of Sandi, a good friend and colleague of mine. It gets all too easy to take all these photos and see Sandi everyday and let it go too long without shooting some more stuff of her. Truth is, she's really quite handy at all this modeling stuff and makes my job pretty easy.
So a few weeks ago the plan formulated to go out and shoot a few new bits, and to try and drag along another of our colleagues Tim, who needs a little help getting to grips with shooting people. The night turned out quite well in the end, if a little cold, and we got a lot of cool stuff in not much time. Sandi's one of those people who's totally into pictures, she a total Photoshop whizz in her own right, and thoroughly enjoys doing the modeling thing, but just needs the tiniest wee bit of help to try and get her out of her shell and let loose a little. Really happy to say we managed it this time! :-)
(Is it just me that sees the city lights in her glasses and thinks of that 5D promo vid Vincent Laforet did last year?)
(Strobist/flash info: 580 EXII fired into Orbis ringlight fired via Cybersyncs - kinda obvious eh? ;-) Hehehe!)
So this is the product of the very latest shoot, and in some senses I'm kinda jumping the gun a little as there's so much more still hiding backstage waiting to go on here, but frankly, I don't care, the stuff from the shoot with Chelsea rocked hard and I'm real excited about so, so much of it.
We did two real styles, and looks. And this was the second. Fuelled by a recent behind the scenes video from a shoot for a well known annual publication where one of the models got dunked in a fish pond, I put it to Chelsea that we ought to try something similar. The money shot (as discreet as it is) is still to come, but this was a happy side angle. What turned out to be the most difficult concept of the shoot was actually posing and making 'contact' under water but Chelsea ran with it, and very quickly adapted and gave it her all. There's literally heaps of photos like this, which are in my own opinion, visually arresting as the result.
Doing this shoot with her was a very happy surprise. It was a coming together of a lot of things. A slightly inplausible approach to suggesting a shoot, someone who isn't in any way a model, who protested greatly in advance about being unphotogenic (I always knew different). It was the first time I really let rip and trusted a good 90% of both locations to being lit by the Orbis ringlight (you'll be pleased to know James, that it delivered big time). It was a blend of ideas, of genuine feedback and input from Chelsea, and of an open and very admirable approach to giving it all in the name of just trying, and to hopefully make nice photos.
For what looking back was such an inplausible series of things to line up, somehow it worked, and we both had such a monumental blast shooting this. She's fun, a lot of fun. She can work the camera like anyone I've ever met, pro model or not. I babbled with nerves and of pent up concentration the whole way through, and somehow it came out as joking around.
And you know what, in the context of this project, I've found it amazing looking back to be able to approach someone almost cold, to suggest a shoot knowing somewhere deep down that it'd work, and yet then to break that ice, to engage with someone and make some magic. And it never, ever fails to amaze me what wonderous things you can learn about someone when you take their picture, and that in the oddest of circumstances, such as being half submerged in a bath, when the photographer and the sitter click, it can show you guys, the viewing world so much.
For that little nugget of gem-like information, and as a reminder as to what you can do when taking people's pictures, I'm forever endedbted to Chelsea. She rocks. :)
(Strobist & off-camera flash info: 580 EX II fired via OC-E3 cord into Orbis ringlight adapter at about 1/4 power, balanced manually with ambient light.)
I wanted to give myself sometime to draw this evening so I knocked today's photo out really quickly. Still really happy with the outcome!
Canon 5D with Sigma 105/2.8 Macro and LED ringlight
1/400s f/2.8 ISO 400 -1EV
Through a fine fence, distance to the monkeys maybe 1m, to the fence a few cm.
More about this animal here: www.flickr.com/photos/guenterleitenbauer/623227227/in/set...
Today's Macro Monday theme was B&W.
I was thinking of metallic things that I could photograph to get a metallic feel in the image and thought it would be interesting to see the state my wedding ring is currently in.
When it was bought it was a mirror finish and every now and again I take it to the jewellers to be re-polished and usually, because it's so bad, they have to check if it's supposed to be a polished or a matt finish.
I have possibly one of the least manual jobs in existence so I've no idea how my ring gets in such a state with dings and scrapes, but I never take it off when doing stuff as I know I'll only lose it!
HMM!
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March 2011 - I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY A FEW RECENT OWNERS THAT MYLAR IS NOW MANUFACTURER-INCLUDED IN NEWLY PURCHASED O-FLASH UNITS
Glue a piece of Mylar to inside, wide end of cardboard. Replace cardboard insert. CAREFULLY replace clear-cover. It does not need to be re-glued, but can be secured to black shell with Scotch (clear) Magic tape. I use a pair of chained black "ponytail" elastic bands stretched from lower end of O-Flash Fresnel ring, to a screw in the camera's tripod mount. This keeps the flash-ring in correct position when shooting downward. A taut loop of mono-filament fish line will do the same.
The added reflective surface more than doubled the ring-flash output, which is more than a full stop increase. For maximum Depth-Of-Field, I like to photograph manually at ISO 400, usually 1/200-sec at f/22, which also allows some sunlight background exposure. The SB-600 Speedlight allows for easy adjust of flash output for exposure control.
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