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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.)
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.
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.
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ISO 400 f/7.1 1/200s (See setup shot for Strobist info)
I really wanted to try shooting on white with the option of reflective surface. I knew the easiest way to do to so would be to light my subject on the a reflective surface (found bathroom mirror) from the back with a large softbox and fill in from the front. I didn't have a softbox, so I improvised with a piece of white foamboard found at any office supply place and few $1 spring clamps. I am not planning to sell the amazing Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens, but if I do sell it or any other gear I will seriously consider using this setup.
until tomorrow,
enjoy
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 ;-)
Actually a very easy setup:
Some plexiglass with the whisky bottle on it and the SB-900 (+3.0) with the diffusion dome below. Triggered with the internal flash of the camera (+0.7).
A Lego recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson's 1933 photograph simply titled "Seville, Spain". A photo I've been meaning to take ever since I got my 35mm (and therefore wide-ish angle) macro lens.
Original here : www.artnet.com/artwork/425957438/141091/henri-cartier-bre...
Setup shot here : www.flickr.com/photos/balakovsetup/3717268019/
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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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
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.
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
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/
Back to basics today, but still managed to get a couple of Pringles tubes in the frame :)
In truth I'm still exploring how to use the reflectors on the lights and this seemed a good idea, just blast the background with light.
Trying to get detail in the overall scene so the setup can be seen, has overexposed it a bit, but I hope it serves the purpose.
The baking tray in the centre contains a few drops of olive oil (I recommend water instead, see comment on pic below). As all the light is coming off the background, it leaves the front edge of the pools of liquid in shadow on the camera side, an effect I use quite often.
The lights are just a pair of 20W CFL bulbs placed inside Pringles tube reflectors. The openings in the tubes are cut in an H shape turned sideways, then the flaps bent out to create extra reflection and light blockers at the same time. Not sure it shows here, but there is no light coming directly from the lamps onto the baking tray in the centre, it is all bouncing back from the background.
Lighting setup for some of the convertible shots1 , and 2. You can see my exciting turbo diesel Fiesta parked behind the BMW Z4. Mind you, my boot's bigger, and I bet I get better mileage. Don't get quite as much attention from the girls though.
Blog: www.photosmudger.com/
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/