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For those who might be interested, here is a picture of the setup and a few details.
Macro 90mm lens mounted on Canon UK 6D, below that a sheet of glass and below that an iPad used to display the images to be photographed.
On the right you can see some window cleaner, water mister spray and most importantly is the Rain-X, this is used to coat the glass, allowing the water to bead up correctly to form the lens.
Clean the glass and apply the Rain-X, allow it to dry fully, then spray the glass, aiming for largish drops, now leave it alone for half an hour, this will allow the smaller bits of water to evaporate away and allow the larger lens to form.
Using live view manually focus up on one or two of the droplets and snap away.
Camera was set using AV mode with a setting of between F18 and F22 used to allow some of the source image to be in focus.
Setup for the little japanese lantern on water.
Above and lighting the backdrop, my usual Vivitar 2800 fitted with a blue filter and a larger flag to shield the water from direct light.
On the left, a Yongnuo YN460 fitted with a snoot and grid and set to 1/32.
To the right (not in shot), a Canon 430EZ, zoomed to 80mm, set to 1/32 and fitted with a snoot.
Just behind the flash on the left can be glimpsed a low powered desklamp used to illuminate the area for focussing, but as you can see, has no effect on the image.
The image can be seen here:
New setup with my PowerMac G4 Cube and 17" LCD Studio Display.
Cube specs: G4 450MHz, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Combo drive, GeForce 2mx, Airport Card.
Also: 3rd Gen iPod (20GB), Apple Pro Speakers, White Apple Keyboard, Cheap wireless optical mouse, 200GB FW HDD, Logitexh X-230, Panasonic VS6, Newton's Cradle, Nodding Dog.
Panoramic sot of the empty hall at the Oregon Convention Center. You can see tables being setup near the large open door at the back of the hall.
Setup for the detail shots that can be seen in this spread. Notes will explain everything.
Blog: www.photosmudger.com/
The setup shot for Cactus and (without the white fill card but with a cardboard snoot on the flash) Cactus Bud. The fill card is an offcut of white foamboard, propped on bulldog clips.
This is my setup as of today. I think it needs something in the blank space though, but what? tell me in the comment-field.
Nikon D7100 mounted on a Manfrotto dual arm flash holder, two SB600 speed lights mounted to shoot from sides, ISO200, f/32, 1/200 sec using mirror up mode; 5 shots processed in Aperture and Topaz Denoise then output as TIFF and stacked together using Zerene, then tweaked with Topaz Adjust. Not as sharp as I'd like but I just got this setup going today. Will get better with time.
Setup for my zombie shooting.
Strobist:
SB-600 (24mm, @1/4) in a beauty dish pointed from below at the zombie and for the background a SB-900 (tupperware on it, @1/2) was used. Both were triggered with the SU-800.
A quick christmas-holiday approach to the DIY Ringlight topic. I used an old IKEA floor uplighter and that was good to keep the collateral damage near to 0.
(+) No cost if you have a similar lamp
(+) Setup is quickly done
(-) Light is quite weak, so I had to use a wide angle lens to come close enaugh, what made the face look smehow frog like
(-) White adjustment neccessary during raw processing
(-) This is not portable at all
SETUP: Place the person close to a wall. Bring the light directly in front of the person and place the camera in front of the light. The camera is covering the middle of the light, so that it appears similar to a ring light.
Results:
Setup shot for all the Glowing Dumbells shots, the notes ought to answer any questions.
Not pictured is the camera very firmly clamped to a big studio tripod, and fired via a cable release.
Blog: www.photosmudger.com/
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
Nothing very complex here and ignore the shadow to the right of Gromit and his booty.
Base is a sheet of white plastic, that has yellowed a bit with age and needs a clean :)
I didnt want it too white here so that it was seperated from the white of the bags and look more like a floor.
Lighting is provided by a 11watt CFL bulb mounted in a Pringles snoot with a grid in the end made up with black drinking straws. See my "Pringles" set for more info at www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/sets/72157625717341909/
Dark cards were placed behind to prevent any unwanted light spills, though the exposure took care of that really.
The result can be seen below:
Setup shot for 033/365 Hot Tub Time Machine.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Canon L 70-200mm@100mm, f/5.6, 1/80s, ISO 100
Strobist Info: See setup shot here.
Canon 430EXII Camera Left behind subject, 1/2 power, @105mm zoom, fired bare, 6 feet high & 10 feet away from subject.
Canon 430EXII Camera Right behind subject, 1/2 power, @105mm zoom, fired bare, 6 feet high & 10 feet away from subject.
Canon 430EXII Camera right and front of subject,1/2 power, @24mm zoom, Diffuser Cover, 9 feet high & 7 feet away from subject.
Flashes triggered with Interfit Strobies.
Pure daylight setup for the Espressi shot. Cloudy sky, corrected a bit towards sunlight via white balance.
I didn't have a budget for an umbrella braket or a light stand, so I made it from "scratch":
A vivitar 285hv is attached to an IKEA lamp stand. The umbrella was found on ebay, I attached another (dismounted) black umbrella to the back to bounce.
I have no idea what this yellow thingy are called. I found them 8 for 1£ at the pound land in York. It's a sort of hard metal cable you can bend with some foam around. You can grip it around whatever comes to your mind.
It's a bit more versatile than simple ball bungees as they still have some rigidity, so for example, you can use them to attach and direct an umbrella.
They are sold to attach things together when doing DIY jobs. If you have any idea of what it can be...
Setup for insects in flight. This setup take pictures of insects inflight. An optical extra lens system is added to look for insects in focus. Only 40 usec are needed to check if there are objects in focus.
This unit works on reflected laserlight. No more leaserbeams are needed, no more long arms to put the receivers on the top of the system. The full distance is now free between camera and insects. The unit works in full dark or even in full bright sun. Sensivity can by adjusted by mean of a simple potmeter. To work in full dark 2 to 4 extra high power leds are added. 2 of this high power leds are UV leds at 405nm. This UV light attrack some insects inflight.
Today the first real live tests are done. This works realy nice. At this time no insects are available considering the winter periode here. Focus distance can by adjusted to every value. The focus range of the detector is very narrow. 1 to 2 mm at a distance of 700 mm form the camera. Objects of 2 mm diameter can by easily detected. Detector works also on full black insects. 4 lasers are used, 2 IR 5 mw lasers at 850 nm and 2 x 10 mw green lasers. The green lasers are only for visual position to the insects.
All electronics are mounted into the frame. One CPLD board is used and 2 boards with an AVR controller. The information from the optical system are fast transmitted from the AVR controller to the CPLD board. An 2x16 character LCD display give the status from the system. value of the batterys, value of the high voltage for the electro magnet at 150V, sensivity of the focus detector, width of the digital filter used, value of the environment light, value of the laser return light and expired time between start camera and moment of the picture.
My Baroque Black with custom insert
See my Filofax setup in my blog: www.scottishwhimsicality.blogspot.com
Well, heres my stuff, most of it =P . Lined up nice and tidy as a documentation now that we have moved and the insurance company will want to see pics if something happens.
AND just a checklist for myself as I will be going away to shoot a car this weekend.
Allways a good thing to do, so you know what you have and what you need(want)! haha
some stuff missing but this is the important stuff =)
The final Portable Portrait workshop of the season took place on Saturday, October 24th here in Nashua NH. We had a small group, and the all-day rain was actually a secret blessing, as it caused me to seek out new locations in Nashua, mainly in the form of public parking garages, which provided some serious inspiration, as well as some really crazy wall colors.
We had a small group, and we shot well into the evening.
I want to thank those who attended, and especially thank Rob F for being our model for the day - he totally kicked butt, and was more than happy when we started asking him to jump around! Fantastic guy. Fantastic model.
I also got some really great images that I can use for marketing for next years round of workshops.
Enjoy!
1 yn460ii from the right behind diffuser (white plexy).
1 yn460ii with grid to background.
1 white reflector to the left.
My work setup. My coworker Karin and I picked out 50"x25" butcher block countertops from IKEA and bolted on legs, a keyboard tray for mine, and a CPU holder for her Dell. It's perfection. Enough room to work, little enough room that I can't spread out into permanent piles. We love our new desks, especially compared to our older (larger, uglier) desks.
Not everything needs to be huge to be good. (See also: MacBook Air, iPod Nano.)