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Setup shot for 130/365 Purple Umbrella.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @28mm, f/5.0, 1/200s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
-Canon 430EXII Camera Right and in front of subject, 1/1 Power, @24mm zoom, about 7 feet high, 5 feet away from subject inside 40 inch Wescott softbox.
-Flash triggered with Interfit Strobie.
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1 yn460ii from the right behind diffuser (white plexy).
1 yn460ii with grid to background.
1 white reflector to the left.
Setup through mirror
Diffused bounced umbrella
Cant wait to get vagabonds so i can take these lights outside!
My desk / computer setup at home
I'll be progressively adding notes to this image to explain what I have sitting around my desk.
More experiments with my lightbox and new mini-flash (see here www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4467110058/ ).
I thought I could optimise the performance of this tiny little unit and boy, was I in for a surprise.
It's probably not that clear in the photo so I had better give a written description.
The thing :-) mounted on top of the box is a clear thin plastic tube, about 9inches/225mm diameter and 6inches/150mm deep, which originally had a cake in it. Around this was stuck some strips of metallic tape. On top is a circle of white card with a window the size of the flash head cut in it. So in a effect, a reflector. Between this and the open top of the box, were sheets of white printer paper to diffuse the light. It is fairly easy to adjust the light output by adding extra sheets of paper to reduce the light. With a single sheet of white paper, I could get a good exposure upto ISO 100, f16 at 1/160, my max synch with radio triggers. Not bad for such a cheap little flash.
The result is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4467405413/
Had another go, much better DOF
Setup for the headshot of Sam. I had to hire in extra radio triggers at this point (first shot of the week) as the optical slaves on my aged flashheads were playing up in the bright daylight. Luckily a very speedy despatch from North London to the location saved me from spending the week trailing cables and peanut slaves all over the place.
As always, the notes do the talking.
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Here's the setup shown previously, in the location we ended up using. I would have preferred someplace with a better background, but this is basically what the person organizing it wanted. At least it was a clean, uncluttered background.
2 light setup for this shot - one rear light for the background hearts, and one overhead main light to illuminate the chocolates. The overhead light had a 10 degree grid & improvised snoot (approx 1.5cm aperture) to restrict light area hitting the choc. The background was trickiest to get right - the initial flash output from the SF58 was not uniform (providing a central hotspot - not surprising, since my use here is not usual) so zooming the head to max setting of 105mm and adding lots of diffusion cloth between the head and the gel (6 layers of Rosco 036 pink) was a solution. Flashes triggered by radio.
This photo was taken at Insomnia61 #i61.
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This setup looses some of the 'spontaneous' aspects of photography but sure gets nice results. I can't say enough good things about the Canon 35-80mm lens with the front elements removed. A great low-cost macro option with top-notch results. I also really like my Velbon Super Mag Slider which I got from kijiji and paid a silly little price for ($40 Cdn) hehe.
Actually, every single piece in this photo was purchased from kijiji... maybe I should do an add for them!
You can see here the setup that I have used. One 430ex with a white umbrella to illuminate the model from front right. One 420ex with a froam difusor/reflector to illuminate the tree on the background from behind and to put some accent on the model hair at the same time. On camera a 550ex in master mode only, without shining any light to the image.
The background is a very big tree in the middle of the city. Here, in Spain this kind of tree are called "magnolio".
Setup shot for varying the Apparent Light Size control exercise.
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- 580 EXII @ 1/4 24mm with 1/4 CTO trough Apollo Westcott Softbox cam right
- 430 EX II @ 1/4 105mm bare cam left
- 430 EX II @ 1/4 105mm bare cam right
- EOS 5D MKII @ 1/160 ISO 500
- EF 50 1.4 @ f/7.1
- triggered with Yongnuo RF-602
Setup for:
Strobist:
Ranger A Head, A port at 5.0, 135 Midi Octa with both diffusers, behind and just above me (See catchlight).
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 4.0, 100 Deep Octa with both diffusers, above subjects.
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 4.5, 130x50 strip with both diffusers, rear camera left
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 4.5, 130x50 strip with both diffusers, rear camera right
RX600, 5.0, 21cm reflector, rear camera left to light white background.
RX600, 5.0, 21cm reflector, rear camera right to light white background.
Triggered by Skyport Speed.
Setup used in recent waterdrop pics. Clear plastic water container standing on a glass with some sweet paper wraps underneath. Crisp packet behind to supply extra colour
Strobistinfo:
Left: LP160-35mm-1/2-trough A4 paper
Up/back: LP160-50mm-1/2-trough A4 paper
Right/down: LP120-28mm-1/4-trought A4 paper
Simple setup for darkfield lighting.
A pair of tracing paper screens with a sheet of black card between them.
A pair of 20W CFL desklamps located behind the black card, which illuminate the screens.
The vase is sat on a glass shelf suspended approx 2inches/50mm above the surface of the table and has a silver reflector under, but I dont think it contributed much, if anything.
Closer view shown below:
Setup shot for the "Kettle Collection" photo.
Lighting Info
- SB600 at 24mm and 1/1 power level in a 28-inch Westcott Apollo softbox camera-right. I shot this without the diffusion material over the front of the softbox. About 6 feet high, angled down and slightly toward the camera. It is roughly 3 feet from the subject.
- SB600 at 50mm and 1/16 power level in a collapsed 43-inch Westcott [shoot-through] umbrella camera-left. About 6-feet high, angled down and toward the subject. It is roughly 3 feet from the subject. I also put a flag on the wall-side of the flash to control the amount of light that was hitting the back wall.
- White foam core placed camera-left and about at the same level as the subject. It is actually pretty much below the collapsed umbrella, and was used mainly to throw a little light on the labels of the 3 glass jars on the left-side of the table.
- Cybersyncs
Nothing wildly exciting about the setup, more tried and tested. A pair of Neewer SF-01 mini slave flashes to either side, partly lighting the backdrop and some difussed light through tracing paper screens falling on the leaf.
A third Neewer located below and behind the base as main light on the backdrop.
The two to the sides fired by Blazzeo SLT-4 radio triggers, the one behind by it's optical sensor.
An additional flash was added for this setup shot as it was a bit dark with the dark blue backdrop. It has washed out the colour of the card backdrop a bit, but the reflection in the acrylic sheet used as the shooting surface gives a good indication of the colour.