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Setup for the beanbag shot. There's another angle of the exterior, here.
Notes should tell the story.
Blog: www.photosmudger.com/
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
Setup shot for this image: www.flickr.com/photos/randholm/9699285375/in/photostream/
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.
Setup Specs:
Desktop: 2009 Dell Inspiron 546s w/ AMD Phenom & Windows 7
This desktop's internal fans were very noisy. I think it was always overheating, and that is what caused the motherboard to fail. This may have been caused by the compact design. The hard drive was replaced once after 4 or 5 years, I nearly lost all my data. Then the motherboard failed after 6 years.
Performance wise, I never had any issues, it was a very responsive machine. Probably faster than my current Win 10 laptop.
Monitor: Dell S2409W
Not pictured: Canon Pixma MP620B (Died in 2018 or 2019).
Lamp from Estate Sale
Read the notes on the picture. See the final shot here. flickr.com/photos/kevdiggs/113817310/in/photostream/
Here's the lighting setup for my "Pinch Me" shoot. I had just bought the background stand and seamless that morning. First time trying it out.
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.
Strobist: 430ex left and right rims 1/8 power crossing slightly behind model. 580EX on floor camera right, w/red gell lighting background. All triggered by STe2. 540eZ in gridded Beautydish 1/4 power, up high in front of model aimed low. Triggered by an optical peanut slave velcro'd to the top of the dish. See setup shot.
Strobist setup:
- 580 EXII @ 1/16 through Apollo Westcott Big mama cam right
- golden reflector cam left
- 430 EXII @ 1/32 with snoot cam left
- EOS 5D MKII @ 1/160 ISO 320
- EF 24-70 2.8 L @ 70mm f/7.1
- triggered with Phottix Tetra
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
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)
More setup details in the on-picture notes.
Private Flapjack's vision returned to normal shortly after the shoot
Setup shot. My first attempt at food photography.
Strobist: Old Achiever flash in a Makeshift softbox behind food camera right, poster board front left for fill reflection, and one more old manual flash behind the food to light the bottle of olive oil.
Check out the shots from this setup Here! and Right Here!