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This is the setup photo for Super Ma.
The backdrop is made of a sheet of scrapbooking paper held in place by a clipboard. Backlighting is provided by a single incandescent flashlight aimed at the center of the sunburst pattern.
Above the scene a large circular diffuser (not shown) softens the ambient light in the room.
A simple magnifying lens (not a macro lens) is used to enhance the close-up.
I often use iPhoto to adjust levels, tweak colors, crop, etc. But his is one of the few times that I used the "Antique" effect to give the palette an old-fashioned look.
To get a closer look at the equipment I use, check out my Gear series.
Setup for this shot. The camera was on the tripod in roughly the same position as the film camera is above.
Setup for this shot, notes should explain everything.
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Macro test setups.
Test object : KC73129MP
Number of Effective Pixels: 500(H) ´ 582(V)
Unit Pixel Size: 9.80µm(H) ´ 6.30µm(V)
This is a CCD with fine structure as a test object. The structure is uniform, perfectly straight and the dimensions are fixed. The macro magnification can be measured easily.
The 100% crops are always 600x400 pixels. Since a sensor pixel less than 10 um the resolution of the image can be properly checked.
I use a new tube-lens, the AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm 1:4G ED.
The advantage with this lens is the possibility to change the focalt length. This also changes the macro ratio. The ideal value is 200mm and this lens performs excellently. At other focalt values the quality remains very good but there are problems with the lighting in the corners. You'll practically limited to about 150mm. At 135mm you will have to adjust the angles sure if your image is in that zone. Smaller than 135mm is no longer usable, you lose too much by the dark corners. Successive images show these results.
This is a setup shot for this shot.
Nikon D7000 in Aperture priority, F32, ISO 800, manual focus mode (using live view)
Nikon SB-900 Flash
CoCo Ring Flash Adapter
Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di LD Lens
4X screw on close-up filter
Zacuto Z-Finder Pro 3X viewfinder (magnifies live view screen by a factor of 3 for better focusing)
Gitzo Basalt Tripod with Kirk BH-1 ball head
I uploaded this one to show how/where I attached the fishing line (near the base of each glass). The line runs off to the right. I simply pulled it while my son hit the shutter release.
Lighting Info: Canon 580 EX II camera right on 1/2 power shot into an umbrella. SB-26 on 1/2 power camera left shot through an umbrella. Black acrylic table top and black velvet backdrop.
Model: Jenny Mariposa
Location: Tarpon Springs, FL.
Strobist: SB-24 camera right into 57" brolly, bare Qray PZ1 back left for rim and another with a red gel way in the back
Resulting shot: www.flickr.com/photos/jake2k/4955421721/
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So here's a setup shot from the double espresso shot. Nothing fancy.
The cup is empty because I had already had the coffee before I thought about taking a setup shot :)
My current setup as of December 2018.
Took me a little while to complete the move from A-Mount to E-Mount.
First E-Mount camera was NEX-5 in 2010, but I hated it; horrible menus, controls, experience. First serious E-Mount camera was the a7ii in 2016. Better than the NEX-5 by a mile, but there were things I still preferred with the a900; handling, low-light AF.
Sold the a7ii at the beginning of this year and got the a9. This finally felt like the camera I had been waiting for, and a true upgrade in every way to my previous favourite the a900.
Now I have sold the last of my A-Mount glass and got my collection back up to scratch after the massive sell off I had in 2011.
Hoping to add an a7III at some point soon. The collection is not complete, in the future I'll no doubt be looking for a macro, long tele, full frame wide, and maybe a 135mm f/1.8 as I miss the Zeiss version I use to have.
That said, I feel very fortunate to be able to have all these lovely lenses and I'm extremely happy with this current setup.
From left to right: a9, a6500, 24-70mm f/2.8 GM, 70-200mm f/2.8 GM, Zeiss 35mm f/1.4, Zeiss 55mm f/1.8, Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8, Sigma 16mm f/1.4, 10-18mm f/4.
Lighting setup for a photo shot described on my blog:
www.akelstudio.com/blog/food-photographer-in-atlanta-chic...
The simple setup shot for today's 365 picture.
Canon 430EX II on 1/16 power bounce off curved paper background.
Small card at front to provide a tiny bit of foreground light (barely noticeable really!)
setup shot for www.flickr.com/photos/fjgphoto/5202279505/
guy with camera
The setup shot for the Wine Glass photo.
This is my take on the Strobist DIY $10 Macro Studio. It's made from A3 foamboard and some bits of plasticard and plastic chanelling/angle from a local model shop. The top and sides have the centre cut out to form a 1" wide frame and are covered with tissue paper. The cut-outs can be refitted if the diffusion panels aren't required. It's done this was rather than from a cardboard box because it fits neatly into a portfolio case together with a selection of white and coloured backgrounds.
Lighting setup for the most recent portraits.
SB-80 DX in white shoot-through umbrella camera right as key, white reflectors camera left in front for fill, gridded SB-28 on stand back camera left for hair light, and gridded SB-28 on floor to light backdrop. All triggered with V2s, shot with Nikon D40, 18-55 mm lens
This is the setup plan for April 2019.
I may not have any other pictures of this setup because the Ottawa river is flooding my house and I am not able to go sorry.
This here is the setup i use to get macro images of insects I've been posting on Flickr to date.
The body is a Canon 550D
The lens is a 50mm Mark 2 Prime lens.
This lens is reversed on a set of macro extension tubes with a 52mm thread reverse ring.
I made the extension tubes longer with a toilet roll and some duct tape.
The flash is connected to the camera body via a flash chord and the flash has a diffuser attached - Home made and one built in.
Any questions, feel free to ask me. Thanks.
Setup shot for the whole Jungle series. For another angle try here.
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since some of you asked for it:
Here's my setup.
20" iMac (early 2009)
22 " Hyundai TFT
21 " Techwood Flatscreen TV
Apple Keyboard, Magic Mouse
Wacom Intuos 4 M
13 " MacBook (early 2010)
HP Photosmart C4680 Printer
iPhone 3GS 16GB
Blackberry Curve 8300
Toshiba 1TB External HDD
t.bone SC 400 Microphone
My new Canon 7D set up for video. Was waiting for the upgrade 5D but needed video capacity since I'm doing most of the podcast/photography for anarchistchef.com/
First video attempt w/ this setup:
This link is the full usage of my new equipment...enjoy:
Setup shot for this:
www.flickr.com/photos/scott_morgan/4355284493/
All cybersync triggered, cybercommander controlled.
TS-H120
Swivel Holder K
CL-TX/FT-16
Cactus V6
YN-622c TX
YN-622c
Godox RT-16
Having this on a stand next to me while shooting, I can control any flash trigger. If I want HSS i put the yn-622tx on my camera and plug the yn-622 into the sync jack and fire any of the other triggers. If I just want a dumb trigger set up pictures above I can fire all the other triggers.
This setup allows me to use any of my crap triggers and better triggers to work all together without having to buy all the same or extras of just one kind.
Starplex controller that we had setup with Star Castle Arcade (since the original arcade game did not use a joystick).
Setup for this shot ... www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/3383423546/
A flagrant misuse of strobist equipment. This scene is mostly made up from a Speedlight Pro kit from www.adstudiosolutions.com/Products.html
Banners, Backdrops, and Bar Stands, we can do it all for trade shows/ events.
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A bit of cheating involved- trap hoverfly with glass and card. Stick suitably sugar/honey laced "rest" with blu-tac to wheelie bin lid. Wait for hover to land on side of glass, remove card and place glass over the rest. Put suitable background card behind card. wait a couple of mins for hover to find the food, Remove glass and start shooting. The hover was comfortable enough to allow me to revolve the rest for different angles. Not sure I'm entirely comfortable with trapping the bugs outside but you can get interesting results and it does them no harm
For what it's worth, here's a setup shot for Snow White vs. Snowtrooper.
Snow White is standing on red posterboard with green posterboard behind her. She is surrounded by crushed tortilla chips that hide the red stand beneath her. A blue LED (not seen here) was shining on the green posterboard behind her to create an "aura."
The snowtrooper is standing on white quilt batting on top of white foam core, with white foam core behind him.
Above them (not seen here) is an Opteka translucent reflector that I frequently use to diffuse the ambient light in the room. On top of that, positioned directly above these two, are a couple of cheap, battery-operated light sources.
This is just a stupid story.
I realized it would be cool to make a picture for the 40th anniversary of 1st human step on the moon on the very day when it was happening.
Since I wanted to recreate pictures looking like the originals, with that particular almost horizontal light, I needed to shoot in the dark and have a lamp for lighting.
But since I also wanted the ground to be looking like the lunar ground and not like a table or the floor of my house, I had to shoot outside.
If I had scheduled this earlier, I could have shot at night, talking advantage of the darkness. But it was too late. So I ended up building that sort of tent in my garden, to have a piece of darkness that I could light artificially.
This is one of the setups I use for macro photography. Alternatively, I use poster board sheets and backdrops, both balck and white.
Very simple setup. One Canon 580EXII on manual 1/8 power, triggered by Cactus.
Photo: www.flickr.com/photos/22046706@N07/3590717453/in/set-7215...
Second lighting setup used on my play with golden syrup and a spoon, first can be found here
www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4377879524/
This time as will be seen, just a single flash with a baby wipes box used as a diffuser, the rest of the light is bounced off the white paper backdrop.
The backdrop is from an old roll of Fax paper (non shiny side), cut a piece to length, use it, then throw it away, made the clean up from this nice and easy.
Not so easy to see in this shot, there is a piece of black foamcore on the left to stop spurious reflections from that side and help intensify the contrast.
For those that like the lighting specs, Yongnuo YN460, set at 1/2 power, with diffuser cap fitted and inserted into the baby wipes box. Positioned approx 50cm/20 inches above the subject.
The results can be seen below.