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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:
www.flickr.com/photos/jameshamiltonphotography/3017498996/
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.
this photo accompanies the photo "shootout."
strobist:
1 travelite 375 behind yellow backdrop paper to create the sun.
1 travelite 750 below the table lighting the backdrop to fill in the sunset
1 travelite 750 on very low power with a snoot above and to the right to light the main action.
Here is the setup I used for these nickels and this loonie. I took the picture in case i needed (or wanted) to set up the thing again
The light starts at the lamp, reflects off the glass of the frame onto the coin and illuminates the coin straight down.
The camera takes the picture through the glass straight down.
The black thermal tube is to avoid reflections from the sewing machine box off the glass in the frame into the camera.
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 a couple shots from this shoot.
ab800 into 47" octabox
fired with pocketwizards
vagabond II
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!
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...
A quick snap of the lighting setup. The resulting shot is here. The uber geeky (matching) diagram is here.
Strobist:
2 Elinchrome Style 600S:
- 1 camera right shot through umbrella
- 1 behind subject shot through umbrella
1 - SB-80DX camera left shot through umbrella
Fired via sync cord
BTW - the SB-80DX is about 1/8 power and the 600S flashes are dialed right down to the minimum. I don't think I have ever used the 600S' past 1/2 power.
Pullback shot to show my lighting. All bulbs are daylight spectrum CFLs, one in the tall lamp for ambient room light and one in the homemade softbox. (See my DIY Softbox set for how I made it!) It's awkwardly balanced on top of a small box and my tripod, which meant I couldn't put the actual camera on the tripod. I need a better way to position that thing.
Backdrop is pretty paper I bought at the local art supply place, stickytacked to the wall. The black thing is a sheet of foamcore, I ditched it after a couple shots cause I was trying to keep it out of frame anyway.
Chair is American Girl from my childhood, recently rescued from my parents' attic. It's from Kirsten's birthday party set.
Setup for this shot, notes should explain everything.
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Setup for Lady Laverna. Our Silkkistudio recently opened new Facebook page. Welcome to check our work also there :)
Strobist info: sb24 and sb26 1/4 power and zoomed to24mm for background. sb26 1/8 with white shoot-through umbrella camera right
setup for this
Per a strobist article on food photography, I thought I'd try the simple "above and behind" setup to have it cast some nice defining shadows into the front of the scene, and soften those shadows slightly with a reflector in the front. strobist.blogspot.com/2009/07/boot-camp-ii-assignment-2.html
A bit of a balancing act here, or 2 different lighting setups combined might fit better.
The lighting was split between the xmas decoration and the background light.
Starting with the subject, a pair of fixed output Neewer SF-01 mini slave flashes were shot through white printer paper screens to give a difussed light onto the ball. The position of the flashes themselves was chosen to not give too even a light, to bring out the shape of the ball.
The background is lit with a Yongnuo YN460 set at 1/8th power and with a Pringles tube striplight difusser to control where it was allowed to fall.
In the rear right corner can just be seen a piece of black card, which combined with the black foamcore sheet above, introduced a bit of contrast, to the gold cap on the ball in particular.
I hope all that makes sense :)
Note: A stunt double bottle was used in this setup shot. One SB800 behind shoot through umbrella. Two SB800's on stands bounced off ceiling. All fired via pocket wizards.
Photo is here.
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
This is what we shot for the catalog cover (the full catalog photo session: www.akelstudio.com/blog/studio-lighting-setup-for-a-unifo... ), a close-up shot of one of the catalog boots. Customer wanted to show the boot on a cove and wanted to have the most rich, tasty and sexy (here I’ve run out of my English vocabulary :) look possible. They selected that high black rigid boot with their logo on the front to be shown, all on the black background.
More about this photoset is on the blog:
www.akelstudio.com/blog/sexy-boot-cover-shot-for-the-cata...
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
After months of saving up for a new Mac and a extra desk here is the end result. Im pretty happy.
What do you reckon?
My setup includes...
Samsung S27D590 27" Monitor
Mac Mini - 1TB
Mackie CR3's - creative reference speakers
Costa cup pen holder
Kodak Duaflex vintage camera
Space Grey Iphone 6
Custom Mouse mat
Microsoft Desktop 800 - wireless keyboard and mouse
Ipad Mini 2
Steel Series Nimbus Controller
2 x Ikea Desk combination (120cm x 60cm)
#apple #desk #mac