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Strobistinfo:
Down: LP120-1/4-85mm-25cm cardboard snoot,
Left: HVL-F85AM-1/32-105mm,
Right: 5600HS(D)-1/32-85mm,
Under bottle (backlight): 5400HS-1/2-24mm-1/1CTB
This is my first attempt at an extreme macro setup, Nikon D90, x2 full extension tube sets, Sigma 24mm prime lens(reversed), 52mm reversing ring, Nikon SC29 extension cord, Nikon SB400 Speedlight, Benbo mini trekker tripod, Manfrotto Ballhead, Giottos Ballhead mounted to a cheap £1 bracket to hold the flash in position. I used a £2 LED torch to illuminate the subject a bit whilst focusing, I had the subject on a white book and moved the book to focus, fine focus can be achieved by gentle pressure on the camera setup.
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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Light setup for this set here
Strobist Info
AB1600 Directly Behind and High of camera
Fired through 47" Octabox @ 1/32nd Power
Triggered w/ Cybersyncs and Powered w/ Vagabond II
SB600 Directly Behind Subject as Rim
Fired Bare @ 1/2 Power
Triggered Via Cybersyncs
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Setup for Lady Laverna. Our Silkkistudio recently opened new Facebook page. Welcome to check our work also there :)
The desk setup I used to have at my old condo.
Gear:
# Abit AV8 with third Eye motherboard
# Athlon 64 FX-53 running at 2448 mHz
# CPU cooling by a Thermalright DP120 heatpipe heatsink with a 120mm fan on top for less noise
# 1GB OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum RAM
# Western Digital "special edition" 7200rpm 120gb 8mb cache hard drive
# Seagate 7200rpm 120gb 8mb cach hard drive
# Benq 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW drive
# ATI Radeon 9800 SE 128mb graphics card, with dual monitor support, 8x AGP and TV out
# all packed into a silver aluminum Antec LANBOY case with a side window and 400 watt quiet power supply with blue LED and 120mm fan
# the case has two temperature-sensitive 80mm fans for less noise
# round silver-color cables for all the drives
# 12V car cigarette lighter plug, so I can power my CD/MP3 player or charge a mobile phone
# Eluminx blue-backlit keyboard in black case
# cordless Logitech MX700 mouse
I also upgraded to a LG Flatron L1710B 17" LCD monitor after this picture was taken
The desk is an older Effektiv hexagonal corner unit (top only) from IKEA. Got it for just $31 from the IKEA returns/scratch-and-dent section :) Huge amounts of space but it takes up a hell of a lot of room.
My setup for June. Main desktop (MacPro) & secondary paint board (iTab) will stay. I will change my laptops once in a while. Have to keep myself update in this Mac servicing line.
Showing the setup from the front doesnt always give the true story of how the lighting works. So I'm hoping this aerial view might help to show how this darkfield lighting is done. It is worth noting, an additional light was added to the front for this setup shot, to show the components a little better with all the black around :)
Lurking behind this are 3 x 20W CFL lamps. A bare bulb hidden by the black card behind the glass, which is flanked either side by another pair in Pringles tube reflectors lying on the table just below the shelf, pointing back at the white card background.
To the sides are a pair of V shaped screens, with black cards attached to the sides pointing forward and white cards on the sides facing the background. These form the channel through which the light passes from the background onto the glass.
Lurking in the gloom at the front and dificult to see in the dark (you might need to view this large) are another couple of sheets of black card, folded into a V shape to stand up, which help prevent reflections from the rest of the room appearing on the front of the glass.
Now if you can make sense of that lot, well done ;-)
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...
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.
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.
strobist - 2 sb800's in ~45" shoot through umbrellas.
1/50, f/4 @ iso 100
Flash on camera left is at 1/8 power and camera right is at 1/16 with a magenta gel.
Read the notes on the picture. See the final shot here. flickr.com/photos/kevdiggs/113817310/in/photostream/
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