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This is the setup for my photo The Man Of Yesterday.
As usual, it's all done in my kitchen. The lighting, posterboard backdrop, and use of raisin boxes are typical for me. The unusual bit is having the camera turned sideways to help give the illusion of flight. Also, these days I normally use the Gorillapod to hold the camera, but for this setup a more stable tripod made sense.
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
UPDATE: Check out my new work setup.
My new computer setup:
1 DELL Inspiron 1100 laptop
- 2.2 GHZ
- 1GB RAM
- 80GB 7200RPM HD
1 DELL Inspiron tower
- 2.33GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
- 3GB 800MHZ DDR2 RAM
- 500GB 7200RPM HD
- 512MB graphics card w/ dual DVI
- DELL 22" widescreen LCD
- SAMSUNG SyncMaster 2220wm 22" LCD widescreen monitor
- Microsoft Wireless Desktop 6000
1 HP Pavilion (local webserver)
- 650MHZ
- 512MB RAM
- 40GB 5000RPM HD
Other stuff on the desk:
- Motorola Q
- Jabra JX10
- 3g 15GB iPod
- 4g 30GB iPod Photo
- Canon IXY Digital Li4
- HP Deskjet 932c (7+ years old)
- Boston Acoustics Speakers
- Lamp
- Coffee
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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Setup for the smoke images, following an idea of www.flickr.com/photos/davidleetong .
Setup: Canon EOS 500D on tripod, standard-kit-lense 18-55 on 55 mm. Untethered flash unit (cheap Yongnuo speedlight from eBay), triggered via Yongnuo remote trigger (see also the note boxes on the image). Strobe light was on full power. Camera was on manual focus.
Postprocessing in Photoshop:
1. Cleanup image, adjust levels aso., invert
2. New layer with a nice color gradient
3. Overlay mode: hard light.
4. Clean-up (noise reduction ...)
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.
The over-sophisticated setup for I will find the droids I'm looking for I will find the droids I'm looking for I will find the droids I'm looking for.
Hi there!
very much sorry for the absense for a while!
Here are the new photos ...
these are taken at last christmas holiday,
in one of the shopping malls in tokyo area.
the outfits are new, red and black set-up mini-skirt suits.
unlike my other skirts, this is rather tight-fitting :-)
the christmas tree was shining like thousands of stars...
I truly love these illuminations.
f01 and f02 ... standing beside the tree with joy.
f03 and f04 ... from the upstair.
f05 and f06 ... from different position.
f07 and f08 ... sitting on the chair, just happy and smile.
I know its tooooo late, but...
I hope the year 2009 is happy for all of you!
These are two of the three lighting setups we had.
1) ring light on the right with a black backdrop
2) 3 studio lights (2 1000W's in soft boxes) and a bare 500W. We also had a reflector below and in front of the models, hand held by Mitra
3) not shown here was a couch and I didn't manage to get a shot of that setup but I believe there were two lights on it and a reflector
Setup for digital operating modes
Interface: SignaLink USB
TRX: Icom-703 pwr < 10 watts
SWR: MFJ-948
Ant: Dipol or 3 el Yagi 20/15/10
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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 :
A bit easier than my goofy wine bottle setup ;) This is a homebrew light table made out of bent electrical conduit (EMT) available at most hardware stores. I bought a conduit bender to shape the pieces and used various EMT fittings to assemble it. The "plexiglass" is from U.S. Plastics... it's a sheet of 24" x 48" (3/32" thick) HDPE. I've tried most of their materials and the HDPE is the stuff to get. The other materials are either too transparent or too wobbly.
There's a little Vivitar flash behind the table (full power) to light up the background and that's a 580ex in the foreground at 1/8th power. The key light is Leigh's softbox :D
Setup shot for this pic
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 this photograph (opens new Flickr window).
If you find this plan difficult to see clearly please see the full size version.
Learn how to light at Strobist
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.
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:
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.
This was how I built the lighting setup for my recent podcast shots.
1) First, I shot the background light, got it the way I wanted, then turned it off and worked on the kicker.
2) I worked on moving the kicker light to get the right side highlight I wanted. Then turned it off and moved onto my front keylight.
3) Now, i worked on how the front light would look.
Then, after i had each light individually setup... it was time to fire them all off at the same time in concert. Tada.... one final setup. It's like concentrating on each light on it's own was easier and able to see what it was doing. Then fire them all off and wham. You got it!
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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Mini-studio white background. The cardboard roll which holds the fabric is hung from the clamps for the spotlights on top of the bookshelves.
The full setup shot for the Women and Golf Studio shoot. Notes should explain everything, and there's a detail of the backlights here.
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