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It still amazes me how much I can do with two flashes and some cheap triggers.
(No setup info nessasary because of the setup photo.)
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Light setup for the previous photo.
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Strobist Info:
B1600 Left of subject (high)
Shot through 47" Octobox @ 1/16th Power
Triggered via Cybersyncs
Powered w/ Vagabond II
22" White Beauty Dish on Head
Nikon D300 | Nikkor 10.5mm fishey Æ’/2.8
My new office setup, including my MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz 2 GB, LaCie external HD 250 GB, Griffin Elevator, Apple wired keyboard and Apple wireless Mighty Mouse.
Lighting setup for "Head Of Sekhmet On An Aegis"
Equipment used:
-Nikon D80
---shot tethered to Powerbook G4 and Adobe Lightroom
-Nikon AF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens
-Manfrotto tripod with basic head
-Sekonic L-358 lightmeter
-Speedotron 2403B Powerpack
---triggered by on-camera flash directed into optical slave attached to PC-to-household cord
-Speedotron 102 Light Unit (strobe)
---with diffusing panel (3-4 sheets)
---mounted to DIY boom-stand (vice-grip light-stand clamped to pan-arm of a large video tripod)
-Speedotron 102 Light Unit (strobe)
---with small DIY diffusing dish (hot light snoot with small lamp reflector dish wrapped in diffusing cloth, held together with clips)
---mounted to Manfrotto Articulated Arm and Super Clamp
-DIY macro plexi stand (4x5 chrome display holder held by clips on an adjustable arm)
-curved sheet of seamless neutral-gray paper (movable, allows control of seamless background gradient without noticeable paper fibers)
-Qpcard 201 color-correction card (cropped out of final image)
Setup and lighting details for the photo below.
If I were able to draw I probably wouldn't be taking photographs. :-)
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My editing setup. Mac dual quad-core Nehalem @ 2.93GHz.
16 GB RAM. 4 x 1 TB drives in Raid 5 via Mac Pro RAID card. Dual ATI Radeon 4870's. Dual 24" LED Cinema Displays and one 20" HP LCD. M-Audio MobilePre USB audio interface. M-Audio BX8a reference monitors. Sony MDR-7506 headphones. Various input devices including FCP keyboard, Shuttle Express and Logitech MX revolution wireless mouse. Custom glass over diamond-plate desk.
Here's the setup for my levitation shot and my jump kick shot.
2 Nikon SB-600s at 1/2 power with Honl Speed Gobos blasting the wall.
Vivitar 285HV at 1/4 power in a shoot-through umbrella.
Red laundry hamper is approximately where I stood/jumped.
Tripod is where the camera was.
I think I'll be using this room as the studio from now on. Lots of space is nice. :)
More on my blog.
This is the setup I used to create "Watching in the Dark".
Camera mounted on tripod and fired remotely. Canon 5D mark III with 70-200 at 135mm. Manual focus and manual settings: ISO100, f/13, 1/250.
Two Canon EX-580 flash guns triggered with PocketWizards. One light to the left with grid and small diffuser, manual settings +2 power. The right light also with a grid and manual settings, -3 power.
The camera was pre-focused. I shut off the lights in the room and had the flashes angled so that they wouldn´t light the background.
The left light was the main light and elevated to create the shadow under the brim of the hat. The right light was used as a soft fill to light the eyes under the brim.
Post-processing in Lightroom CC. Work mostly consisted of cropping, dodging and burning. I also added the facial camouflage with colored brushes.
From top to bottom:
Audio-Technica AT-LP60 Vinyl player
Sansui AU-G77XII Integrated Amplifier
Technics 5 Disc CD Player SL-PD867
Toshiba CD Player XR-9057
Sansui Quartz Synthesizer Stereo Receiver S-X700
Onkyo Cassette Tape Deck TA-RW 144
Yamaha Graphic Equalizer EQ-70
Kenwood Double Cassette Deck KX-W6020
KLH-AV 5001 Speakers.
IBM ThinkPad Laptop on the left speaker, connected as an additional source, to playback my MP3 files. (using AMP2 app)
Microscope lens setup. Effectively extension tubes and a extension tube to RMS cone adapter giving approx 160mm from focal plane to objective. A USB mini LED lamp fed from a rechargeable battery block (that goes in my pocket). The disc near then of the cone is actually a twin flash mount but comes in handy to rest the camera on when taking shots of subjects on hard surfaces
Light setup for this image: www.flickr.com/photos/gerard_maas/6470363097
top: Ezybox 80 with 580EXII, side: Ezybox 60 with 580EX. Triggered with Pocket Wizard TT5
Setup shot for 190/365 Big League Slugger.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, Æ’/10.0, 1/250s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
-2 Canon 430EXIIs inside 40" Westcott Softbox camera left, 5 feet high and 3 feet from subject, both flashes at 1/1 power and 24mm zoom
-White bounce fill reflector camera right 3 feet from subject
-Sun above and behind subject and slightly to camera right
-Flashes triggered using interfit strobies triggers
This is how I cram 2 speedlites in my softbox...
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Not the best setup shot, as pulling back allowed a bit too much glare on the lens, but hopefully enough can be seen.
The lens (mug) was placed on a glass shelf that has the underside painted black. Approx 6inches/150mm bahind the rear edge of the shelf is a red card backdrop.
The background is lit by a single 11W spiral CFL mounted in a Pringle tube snoot lined with a sheet of white printer paper.
On the shelf itself a diffusion screen with another sheet of white printer paper attached, behind which is another 11W spiral CFL mounted in a reflector made from a Pringles tube.
On the opposite side and not very well shown due to the angle, is a sheet of white card to bounce a bit of light back onto the shadow side of the subject.
The result can be seen below.
I've no idea why this is so grainy and grotty, but it still does the job.
It's the setup shot for the others in the series, the notes should explain all the technical whatnot.
Blog: www.photosmudger.com/
This is my current touring setup... minus the touring bags of course.
I just geared it down to 39t upfront with the 11x36 in the rear. Yes, it's a mountain cogset. Geared beautifully in the hills of SW Ohio. Most of the time I have a 46t up front but I think I'm going to leave the 39 for the winter. Putting a set of ice tires on my other wheelset.
I just updated my rear and front racks since my Ohio trip. The rear is a Civia Hyland rack, the front is an Axiom Low rider rack which has been creatively mounted. I've had many problems with the Axiom design at first but I'm now finally pleased with it's placement and durability due my creative mounting modifications. More on the front rack here: flickr.com/photos/mmeiser2/3056988352/
Note: I've added tons of notes on the photo if you roll over it with your cursor. At some point I'm planning on reviewing almost every touring item i've used this year on my blog.
Looking at this setup shot, the angle of the glass has me thinking I had drunk the contents :)
As it happens, it's just water with food colouring added, so the only effect would have been a red tongue anyway.
The glass is mounted on a scrap of black foamcore, with a piece of black card wedged against the stem to prevent it sliding down the slope, plus a rubber band on the opposite side to stop it from falling over.
Lighting is provided by a pair of 20W CFL lamps fitted into Pringles tubes, which have a sheet of white printer paper rolled up and placed inside. The paper gives a softer more evenly spread light than the foil interior, to give a better exposed white background.
I did get a bit of light falling away in the corners, though easy to correct in photoshop, not ideal.
Still playing with this, so a better way of lighting might appear tomorrow ;-)
Thanks to LearnMyShot for the back lighting ideas! They have an awesome tutorial which inspired this shot. Check it out: www.flickr.com/photos/learnmyshot/4318729569/
This is now becoming my favoured setup for a white background in the lightbox.
Three Neewer Mini Slave Flash units, one each side and the third from above, all fired with radio triggers. The lightbox is fitted with tracing paper diffusion panels on the sides and white printer paper in the top panel to give a softer overhead light.
The seamless backdrop is from a roll of fax paper, which has really good reflective qualities, the non-coated side being used, as it doesnt mark up like the coated side and gives a smoother finish.
The desk lamp at top left plays no part in the lighting, it is just to aid focussing and overpowered by the light from the flashes.
If you have come straight to this setup, the result can be found here:
A strobist portrait lighting setup I used for some family pictures on xmas day.
Three lights:
- 580EXII at a bit over 1/8 into umbrella camera right for key
- 580EXII from behind, camera left, bare at about 1/16 or less, for side/hair light
- 430EX through white umbrella just below the subject, camera left, at not much over 1/32, for fill.
A sample shot using this setup here: www.flickr.com/photos/ianhay/3139128820/
Explore'd: #352 on Saturday, January 10, 2009