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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 ;-)
Change to the lighting from that used in my previous attempt at this.
Vivitar 2800 with red filter, held to the top of the background board by a spring clamp with a coldshoe fitted to it. In addition a small flag made of card held on the head of the flash with a rubber band, to prevent light hitting the water directly.
Front right, Yongnuo YN460 with a homemade snoot and grid , with the power dialled right down to 1/64.
Not seen in the pic, on the far left, a green wine bottle, which is reflecting a small highlight onto the candle holder. This was a happy accident, well I like it, others might not :)
LOL, just realised when viewed as a thumbnail, this looks a bit like a darkroom, if anybody remembers what they looked like :)
The room at the time was fairly well lit, not anything like as dark as it looks in the photo, which was exposed for the flash.
Result can be seen here :
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/
Setup for my "Good Luck" pic which can be seen below.
The Chinese symbol was put on white paper and attached upside down on a white board. On the table below, a tray of water to reflect it. Single flash (Vivitar 2800) with a red filter was used to illuminate the symbol.
Now the observant will notice my mistake, I remembered to have the projected image the wrong way up, but I forgot to reverse it horizontally, easily flipped in photoshop thankfully :-)
Final image below.
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here is a setup shot. randomly taken as Priscilla acts a fool :) haha.
i feel like the set up should have been different but im still happy with the overall shoot.
man i need a boom stick for the beauty dish asap.
setup shot... Is my bounce too far away from the cupcake?
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Looking at some incredible macro images on Flickr fired me up to have a go at tabletop macro at magnifications far greater than 1:1.
Not sure how I would get on, so the budget was set at £10 and make use of whatever I had around.
Starter was the base and that is from my old Phillips PCS2000 enlarger. I made a spacer and bolt to attach the macro slide.
For the subject table I was looking for movement in 3 orientations, so used the compound table from my bench drill. To save the compound table scratching the enlarger base it is mounted on 4 rubber feet I bought in Maplins. Bolted to that is a vertical rising table to sit the subject on. This is the focus stage from my enlarger topped of with a bit of aluminium held in place by electrical tape.
The flexible flash bracket is a gooseneck microphone stand also from Maplins. As bought this was not stiff enough to support the flashgun so I inserted 5 lengths of fencing wire to stiffen it up. This is topped off with a ball head taken from an old Jessops mini tabletop tripod.
In addition to all that I had to do a mod to my 1980's Panagor Auto bellows. In its native form this is not stiff enough to resist vibrations at high magnifications. So the front standard was drilled and tapped and the bellows attatched to a length of aluminium. The rear standard has the main fixing point and a groove was cut in the ally base to allow the front standard a degree of front rear movement before it is locked down. This is visible in view2.
In the setup shown the extension is 230mm. This is made up by the bellows, and Nikon PK12, 13 and PN11 extension tubes. A teleconverter can be added to the camera for even greater magnification, and that was the setup I used to take the 'Ballpen Tip' in my photostream.
My macro setup:
- Manfrotto 055 xprob tripod
- Manfrotto 327rc2 ball head (replaced the 488rc2 I used before)
- Manfrotto 454 macro rail
- Manfrotto 200pl-14 quick release plate between the ballhead and the macro rails
- Manfrotto 323 quick release plate between macro rails and the camera.
Strobist info:
- 430EX with shoot through umbrella @ 1/2 camera right
- 430EX with shoot through umbrella @ 1/4 camera left
- Cybersync triggers
I have posted a small review/comparision of the 327rc2 here: www.victorvandijk.com/?p=50
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.
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Setup shot for shooting the Porsche photo in my very small home tabletop studio.
Sometimes I don't know if I'm taking photographs or doing Yoga exercises...
Check the notes for detailed comments.
The final result is here:
I was in my apartment, after going for a run in this beautiful weather, and noticed the light coming through the window onto my roommates door and was just really intrigued by the warmth of everything since we've been stuck dealing with the cold for so long.
Figured it'd be a good time to snag a photo while enjoying the light. I got everything setup, shot one photo, went to check to see if I had lined things up right and by the time I went back for another, the sun had fled.
Now that I'm uploading this, not even a few hours after enjoying the sun in shorts, it is now windy, 21 degrees, with projected snow flurries.
I don't understand you Kansas.
Setup shot for these shots - mine, and the published one.
Notes should explain everything.
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3 light setup- 2 aimed at the rear and one in a hybrid/umbrella softbox. All triggered by Pocket Wizard. Strobes all at full power
Simply put: blue gel on the left speedlite, the other one was bare. The yellow/orange tone was achieved via White Balance. The modifiers were a 1/4 Honeycomb in the left speedlite (Neewer TT-660), and a 1/8 Honeycomb on the speedlite at the right (Neewer VK 750 II) The TT-660 was at 1/4th power while the VK 750 II was at 1/64th.. You can see the glases thwrown on the table in order to produce the light bokeh behind (cheap trick, I know, but I really like it). 50mm at f/2.2 in order to achieve the bokeh (of course) and that's pretty much it.
You can watch the finished photo here :)
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Setup for Lagunitas IPA.
Strobist: SB800 to the left and above with shoot through umbrella, SB800 to the right and above, SB800 behind and bounced off the rear wall. Also the bottles are sitting on an old home made light-box that used to be used to sort slides. All fired with pocket wizards.
My very expensive macro photo studio.
Used to take e.g. this picture: flickr.com/photos/30588268@N03/2934491430/
Model - Brittany Everitt
Hair - Raina Trimble
Makeup - Bethany Hood
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Lighting setup for flower bouquets (the one in this shot is not the same as the ones posted here and here)
SB28 camera left @ 1/2 power fired by PWII
SB800 camera right @ 1/2 power fired by PWII
SB600 (behind SB28 in this shot) @ full power to light backdrop fired by PWII
Gave this setup/shot a go after reading DH's post here - although such a small subject wasn't going to be a problem however!
My setup for the sunset pics. A Sony a6000 (thats my old NEX5 in this image, but the type of camera doesn’t really matter) + a used Nikon 100-300 zoom from Ebay and a used Nikon 2X tele-converter, also from Ebay. I paid less than $200 for the lens and tele-converter in mint condition, because no one wants such optics anymore as it’s not autofocus. I set the camera to Manual so I can control everything, then limit the ISO to not exceed ASA400, as I want to limit noise as I will be brightening the final image in post. At 300m with 2X converter, the actual aperture is f/16 (very slow) and I need at least 1/400 second to avoid blur. Image is about 2 stops too dark, so I adjust the RAW image to be the desired brightness. I just lay the whole assembly on a beach tower, pointed at the western horizon, and make fine adjustments by playing with the towel. The swing-out LCD panel makes viewing easier than looking thru the eye-level viewfinder. Effective focal length is 300mm x 2 (converter) x 1.5 (APS-c crop factor) plus I cropped the final image a little...so about 1500mm in 35mm terms... Frankly, the shimmer from heat seems to be the limiting factor in pictures like this, especially in Bangkok where there is so much concrete...
Setup for taking a shot of a special edition Xmas pack of Pringles using a striplight made from a similar pack. Just couldnt resist it.
The striplight was mounted on a Yongnuo YN460 set at 1/2 power, on top of a small tripod and Blazzeo SLT-4 radio trigger, so it was positioned approx 12inches/300mm above the subject.
Additional fill light was provided by a pair of Neewer SF-01 mini slave flashes, also fired by Blazzeo triggers.
One placed to the right and shot through a double difussed screen of white paper approx 2inches/5cm apart to reduce the light of the fixed output flash.
The second was placed low and fitted with a snoot and DIY drinking straw grid to give a very narrow beam onto the white on the underside of the pringles tube and a little onto the chips themselves.
Surprisingly the positioning of the lights only required a few minor tweaks to give the effect I was after, surprised me anyway :)
Deatails of the striplights construction and the image produced from this setup can be found in the comment below.
Setup shot for 032/365 Come Original.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Canon L 70-200mm@84mm, f/16.0, 1/80s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
Canon 430EXII Camera Left, full power, @105mm zoom, 40 inch soft box, 5 feet high & 2 feet away from subject.
Canon 430EXII Camera Right, full power, @105mm zoom, 40 inch soft box, 5 feet high & 2 feet away from subject.
Canon 430EXII Camera boomed above camera,1/2 +.7 power, @28mm zoom, 10 inch beauty dish 9 inch silver reflector, 9 feet high & 6 feet away from subject.
Flashes triggered with Interfit Strobies.
Side Note: These are 2 softboxes at my work we use for continuous video lighting. I took out the lights and rigged a way to keep my flashes inside.
My inspiration for todays shot was from the lighting setup of Michael Herb's 31/365 shot. I really liked how he lit it and wanted to try to achieve the same look with my equipment. I don't think I achieved exactly the lighting/shot I was hoping for but I think I have a better understanding of what to do next time. If you haven't check out Michael's work, you should definitely hop over to his stream. His 365 project is rockin!
Occasionally I get questions about my setups, so I captured this one for Beetlejuice vs. Batman. As you can see, the "diptych look" is captured in-camera: no post-processing.
The back "wall" is posterboard. The two paper patterns are attached to the wall with sticky notes.
The "floor" is a dark wooden shelf with the two paper patterns positioned to line up with the wall patterns.
The "ceiling" is a 43 inch Opteka translucent disc reflector, a Christmas gift from my brother. Positioned on top of the ceiling is a $1 battery-operated light with a slight yellow hue (over Beetlejuice) and a disc-shaped LED with a slight blue hue (over Batman). Attached to the left side and aimed at Batman's face is a clip-on LED with a cone made of aluminum foil.
In the setup photo the room's lights are on, but for the actual photo they were turned off.
The camera is positioned just out of frame, relatively low, and pointed slightly upward. From this angle, moving Batman slightly forward helps hide the height discrepancy between the two figures.
As always, the colors, levels, etc. are tweaked in iPhoto before I upload to Flickr.
Setup shot for:
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I must part with my baby, anyone interested??????
S: SB28 L and R bounced into white brollies. SB 24 and 580 pointed at white seamless. 500DG above pointing down on kit.
In getting ready for sale I decided to get a nice shoot done of my all time favorite drum kit. I will keep this as a memory of my drums when they are gone.