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Setup for the beanbag shot. There's another angle of the exterior, here.
Notes should tell the story.
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Variation on the setup I showed yesterday, but this time with added colour :)
A pair of Neewer SF-01 mini slave flashes placed each side and pointing slightly outward to reduce the amount of light hitting the black part of the backdrop behind the jar, As I'm sure is obvious, these are fitted with red and blue filters.
To inject a bit of white light also, mounted above is a Yongnuo YN460 dialed down to just 1/32 power and also fitted with a white card flag/reflector, again to direct the light away from the black portion of the backdrop. The flash is mounted on a spring clamp attached to the top f the backdrop.
The two side flashes are activated by Blazzeo SLT-4 (PT-04 TM) radio triggers, while the Yongnuo above uses its optical sensor to slave off the others.
To the front right is a Yongnuo SYD-0808 LED video light which is used solely as a work light and has no impact on the photo due to it's low power compared to the flashes.
Result from this setup here; www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4992803000
Extras after the lighting workshop. Tested one light setups with B2 which is ultra compact battery powered flash that can still give out good amount of light. Tiny flash head worked well with zoom, magnum, umbrella and even 3x4' softbox modifiers. More to come.
Model: Sara
Bringing back an old well used setup to try it with a new twist, more of which in a moment.
The basics are tried and tested, a raised base of glass painted black on the underside, to give the reflective surface.
Under this, an 11W CFL lamp in a Pringles tube snoot, pointing to a yellow card backdrop, giving the graduation from light in the centre, falling away toward the edges.
To the sides, diffusion screens with 20W CFL lamps in Pringles Tubes reflectors behind them.
Normally I would have left it like this, but I wanted to see what kind of reflections I would get on the the black glossy surfaces, using a ring flash on the camera lens.
Have to say it worked a lot better than I was expecting, the curvature on the mug in particular, elongating the circular higlight into a very narrow oval and it did a great job of illuminating the labels.
Not to everybodies tastes I'm sure, but I quite like it :)
The result can be seen below.
Strobist setup:
- 430 EXII @ 1/8 through 28" Westcott softbox cam left
- 430 EXII @ 1/16 into golden reflective umbrella cam right
- 580 EXII @ 1/2 through 50" Westcott Softbox
- EOS 5D MKII @ ISO 400 1/160
- EF 27-70 2.8 L @ 70mm f/10
- triggered with Phottix Tetra
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.
Read the notes on the picture. See the final shot here. flickr.com/photos/kevdiggs/113817310/in/photostream/
I keep getting asked to post my "setup" while on various forums and sites. While not the best picture I've taken, it does what I need it to do.
In shelf order: -
26 inch Samsung HD TV, along with my alarm clock, Nintendo DS, 360 controller (with Chatpad attached), Xbox Live Vision Cam, and the "power brick." The two figures on the base of the TV are from the collectors edition of "City of Villains."
Xbox 360 Pro (with Halo faceplate), HD-DVD add on for the 360, and an Icy box (which converts an old HDD into an external USB HDD, so I can play media through my 360). Also pictured are the "play and charge" cable, and the wireless Xbox Live headset.
Playstation 1, Freeview box, Phillips DVD player, and Orion VHS recorder.
Xbox, and Nintendo Gamecube.
The headsets hanging from the wall are additional wired ones, for the 360.
A video of my setup can be found here.
More information on my setup can be found here.
Hastily put together setup to try out the idea, little did I expect how polished the result would be :)
Light is provided by a Yongnuo YN460 set to 1/8th power into the mark2 version of my mini softbox providing the backdrop. The flash and radio trigger can just be seen in the gloom behind.
Out front, a polythene business card box with a CD case on top (note how dirty it is here) to provide the reflective surface.
Thats about it, not sure if the results would have been any better if I had taken the time to set it up properly with nicely polished glass, might yet try it, but doubt that the results would be any better.
Image is here
Simple setup, 2 flashes directed at the white backdrop. On the left a Yongnuo YN460 with a diffuser and set at 1/16 power. On the right, Canon 430EZ bare and set to 1/8 at 24mm.
The backdrop is a piece of Fax roll, the non shiny side, easy to clean up after, just throw it away :-)
Setup for a shoot i did today, first day of decent weather.
My brother who's back from college needed some new pictures.
Got a few good ones of him and of my friend cody.
I'll post them up as i get them edited.
Lighting Info
B1600 through beauty dish above subject
Sun behind subject for rim light
Fired with CyberSyncs
More setup details in the on-picture notes.
Private Flapjack's vision returned to normal shortly after the shoot
This is my Fire Photography Setup:
-Canon 30D Gripped with 17/55 f2.8 IS
- Canon Digital Rebel Gripped with 70-200 f2.8 IS
-Used set of Wichita Fire Department turnout gear
-Ben II Plus Helmet
-Reflective Vest
-Pelican Case with Velcro inserts
-Motorola MTX8250 Radio
-Radio Shack Scanner
-2 Motorola Pagers (Different Departments)
One of my favourite setups for product type shot, probably because it is difficult to get a bad result :)
Starting from the table up, a glass shelf with the underside painted black, raised above the table by approx 6inches/150mm on blocks of black foam rubber. This is to enable a light with snoot to be located below. In this case, an 11watt spiral type CFL lamp inserted into a Pringles tube snoot.
On top of the shelf, a pair of 20watt stick type CFL lamps in Pringles tube reflectors, behind DIY screens of tracing paper to diffuse the light.
The screens are also fitted with black card flags, to restrict the light from spilling onto the backdrop, plus also at the front so I can see what I'm doing rather than having the lights in my eyes.
The backdrop, which is about 9inches/225mm behind the subject is a sheet of flourescent pink card attached to a black backdrop.
Hope that all makes sense, in conjunction with the picture.
Quick and easy setup for simple product shots, where quality is not a major consideration, like ebay for example.
A sweep of white paper for the background, this is an A3 sheet from a drawing pad.
Lit with a single Yongnuo YN460 set at 1/4 power and fired with a Blazzeo SLT-4 radio trigger.
The flash is fitted with a modified Pringles tube, to act like a strip light.
An opening cut in the tube and the flaps folded back to make use of the foil interior as a reflector. The tube is also fitted with a rolled up sheet of tracing paper placed inside to act as a diffuser, to soften and spread the light more evenly.
A Yongnuo SYD-0808 LED video light on low power can be seen at the front left, which is used to light the area and to aid focussing. It is not bright enough to impact upon the image though.
Strobist-setup:
- 580 EXII @ 1/16 24mm through Westcott Apollo Micro Softbox above cam
- 430 EXII @ 1/32 105mm with snoot infront of cam
- EOS 5D MKII @ 1/200 ISO 50
- EF 50 1.4 @ f/1.4
- triggered with Yongnuo RF-602
Setup for the little japanese lantern on water.
Above and lighting the backdrop, my usual Vivitar 2800 fitted with a blue filter and a larger flag to shield the water from direct light.
On the left, a Yongnuo YN460 fitted with a snoot and grid and set to 1/32.
To the right (not in shot), a Canon 430EZ, zoomed to 80mm, set to 1/32 and fitted with a snoot.
Just behind the flash on the left can be glimpsed a low powered desklamp used to illuminate the area for focussing, but as you can see, has no effect on the image.
The image can be seen here: