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How I went about photographing The Reconstruction of Fort Oswald.
Because you can never have to much hype on a creation.
Bit more of an elevated view of the setup today, which I hope will show how it was all put together.
This shot was all about getting a balance between the lights and it did take a bit of playing to get where I wanted.
There are 3 x 20W CFL lamps in use here, so starting with the simplest. The circle of purple on the backdrop is provided by a bulb mounted in a Pringles tube snoot, which has the end 4inches/10cm's lined with black paper to give the tight circle.
Next on the left, a desk lamp with a built in chrome reflector, placed behind a screen of white printer paper, which is used to put a little light on the shadow side of the figurine.
Finally on the right, the one that took me longest to get right. The lamp here is fitted into another Pringles tube which acts as a reflector and allows the light to be directed. Not sure it shows in the photo, but the reflector makes this lamp more efficient and is quite a bit brighter which gave a bit of a problem.
The screen in front of it has 3 layers of paper to reduce the power. There are 2 sheets of tracing paper seperated by the width of the box which makes up the screen, which is about 2inches/50mm.
In addition a sheet of white printer paper is added to the front screen, but leaving a gap at the base. This allowed the light to fall off with height so the small figurine was lit from the side, rather than above.
Now I guess I had better go out and get some more light fittings so I can expand this further :)
The setup I use for taking flower closeup focus stacks. A background draped over or stuck to a wine cooler (in this case some butyl rubber pond liner but often a sheet of paper) height of the subject varied using wine mats. Once I've got a shooting I want I simply slide the lens on the table mat (camera is handheld) for the varying focus points for the stack. In case you are wondering I also often make rubber washers from the rubber sheet :)
This was an experiment I found in Bryan Peterson's book, "Understanding Shutter Speed".
Setup is:
- Middle of the day sun
- Glass Vase ($6.99 from Crazy Clark's)
- Mineral Water ($0.83 for Home Brand)
- Reflector (I used a car reflector)
- Stand or Chair (I used an esky, or chilly-bin if you are from NZ)
- Blue Cardboard (I used a yoga mat)
- Tripod
- Macro Lens (I used a 200mm zoom lens)
I found the best way was to set the camera to continuous, AI Servo and an aperture of F8 and Shutter Speed of 1/500 - 1/2000 (intentionally underexposing at around 1/1250 by 1 - 2 stops seems to work well).
I then used one hand to hold the Yoga mat close to the glass, one hand on the button and dropped strawberries from my mouth - seemed to work well.
700 plus shots later - this was the best one. Not too bad.
Make sure you wipe the glass down periodically as the mineral water does leave a residue.
Setup showing a DIY lightbox in use to backlight a leaf. More details on the simple construction of the box can be found here : www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/5066764683/
The top surface for this shot is a see through document wallet containing a single sheet of tracing paper. This is perfectly strong enough for a light object like a leaf. For anything heavier, a sheet of glass or clear acrylic on top of this is required.
Lighting is provided by a single Neewer SF-01 mini slave flash, fring through an opening at one end of the box. The inside of this box is white, so nothing further is required, though I have got a sheet of white paper in the bottom.
Mounted above to give a little bit of light to the top, is a Yongnuo YN460 with the power dialed right down to 1/64th to give a tiny bit of fill light.
The Neewer flash lighting the box is activated with a Blazzeo SLT-4 radio trigger, while the Yongnuo above uses its optical sensor.
Setup used for this series of shots, excuse the mess which built up over a couple of days of playing with this.
The chunk of broken glass is sat on a sheet of glass from a 12" x 10" (300mm x 250mm) picture frame and has the underside spray painted black to create a black mirror.
This in turn is sat on an old glass shelf (material not important) which is used to raise everything above the tables surface. This is to enable the snooted light to be placed underneath.
There are 3 x 20W CFL lamps in use for these shots. The first is the snooted light under the shelf, which has a Pringles tube fitted to it and this creates the circle of light on the background.
The other 2 lights are placed to the sides, behind screens of tracing paper to illuminate the subject tself and care is taked to avoid light from these leaking onto the background, within the frame of the shot anyway. You will have noticed that the screen on the left is partly blacked out with a piece of card, this is to give a narower light to bring out the texture in the glass, rather than an even illumination.
Due to the slow shutter speeds, mounting the camera on a tripod is essential for this type of shot.
Hopefully, some info which will prove useful amongst this lot.
I guess putting the various shots together in the comments below will show the differences well to make comparisons. Worth a try anyway :)
Image here www.flickr.com/photos/louisedavis/6807600603/in/photostream/
Strobist info
580ex @ 1/8 power on background
580ex @ 1/32 power through snoot on figures
Triggered by pocket wizards
Dave McDuff getting his setup on! [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcduffs/4439149199/]
I'd love to hear your feedback - critique and comments very welcome.
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Here is the set-up for the Screaming Self Portrait images.
Strobist Info: SB-28 set at 1/8th power through umbrella to camera right. SB-600 and some old minolta flash aimed at background one from right and one from left. The SB-600 was set to 1/8th and the minolta has no power settings so I used 3 layers of a white handkerchief as a ND filter (I heard that each layer is a stop so it was also at about 1/8th). I put a gobo on each of the background lights to prevent any light from spilling on me.
SB28 behind deo 1/16th power, yellow gel to colorize the deo
SB28 into umbrella, 1/8th power, 4 o'clock, highlight the deo can
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Photo Shoot para Ebeth Orrego, cantante de música gospel. FotografÃas para su producción musical.
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Becoming a familiar setup :)
Simple setup of 2 sheets of tracing paper seperated by about 2inches/50mm to give a good even spread of light. Behind this there are 3 x 20W CFL lamps shining directly onto the screen.
The bottle is placed on a polythene business card box to raise it above the sheet of glass which has white card under it. This is flanked either side by sheets of black card to bring out contrast.
Though it appears this was taken in the dark, it wasn't, the room was well illuminated at the time, the concentrated light and aperture/shutter speed keeping out extra light.
Hey, I’m Richard. I’m the one behind GamingSetups.com and this is my gaming setup
TV(s)/Display(s):
Samsung 46″ Class 5000 Series 1080p LED HDTV (UN46C5000)
Sound/Home Theater System(s):
Onkyo HT-S3300 – 5.1-Channel Home Theater
Console(s):
Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect
Entertainment Center
Nova by South Shore Furniture
Accessories:
4 LED Light Strip Kit (Cool White)
Guitar Hero World Tour Drum and Guitar controllers (missing from photos)
Two Guitar Hero Legends Guitar controller (missing from photos)
Games:
Rock Band, Rock Band 2, Rock Band 3, Green Day: Rock Band
Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock, Band Hero
Guitar Hero Van Halen, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Guitar Hero Metallica
Skate, Skate 2, Skate 3
Fight Night Round 3, Fight Night Round 4, Fight Night Champion
Halo Wars, Halo 3
Stoked
Dirt
NHL 07
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
NCAA Football 09
NBA Live 09
Fable II
PGR 4
Pure / LEGO Batman: The Videogame
Fantastic Pets (Kinect)
Kinectimals (Kinect)
Your Shape Fitness Evolved (Kinect)
Kinect Adventures (Kinect)
Setup Shot for Nina Maluhia
Strobist:
- 22in Kacey Beauty Dish
- Vivitar 285HV
- YongNuo RF602
Example Final can be seen here:
in the interview room:
Equipment/setup:
White paper taped onto table with outline drawn around the recording area (the white paper helps the webcam with the brightness of the screen on tablets and smartphones)
Articulating arm for webcam mount is the Manfrotto 244 Variable Friction Magic Arm with Camera Bracket
It's secured with a Super Clamp
(articulating arm and super clamp both available through B&H photo)
Logitech 1080p Webcam Pro C910 with a 3/8" hole drilled through the clip
Mac with iChat, iGlasses, Silverback App
iGlasses (software) so that the video preview window can be rotated and mirrored.
Make sure iChat is set to operate in 32bit before opening (finder, info fo iChat and select 32bit) -- otherwise iGlasses won't be available
Open iChat Video Preview window, choose Preferences, select external Logitech webcam, to view the output from the Webcam onscreen (logout of iChat)
Use iGlasses, in iChat, to mirror and rotate the video image in iChat video preview
VGA cable from Mac into TV in observation room (other side of mirror) so observers can see the iPad (via the iChat Video Preview Window) -- requires, of course, appropriate converter for Mac
External 1TB USB hard drive for Silverback Recordings (because this type of video recording creates 20-40gb files per 1hour of video)
Silverback App on the Mac for recording picture in picture (Macbook is turned towards participant to use the built-in isight camera to grab video of participant) -- be sure to tell Silverback to record on the external drive.
The Mac is propped up on on a Fold N Flip Portable Laptop stand
Setup for this shot:
www.flickr.com/photos/dath1974/4615443786/
[ Strobist Info -- Hopefully you can see it! ]
Setup shot for Ashley Young. I had to do the same for all 4 footballers, but you get the general idea. Notes should explain everything.
As a general rule, I wouldn't advise you to let footballers kick balls around at full tilt when indoors. Things can get knocked over. I have seen it happen.
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Model: Kati
Setup: Strip light camera left & right. Flash through diffusion fabric camera left. Flash behind vespa camera left. Triggered with PW & optical sensors.
Dark reflective granite floor = good. Editing reflections & power cables out of it = bad
read about how I set-up my Personal Domino as my main planner :) breakitdawns.blogspot.com/2013/11/planner-setup-personal-...
The setup for a 'practice photoshoot' at IT Mill - the plan is to photo the whole staff at some point, but the plan is progressing slowly. This time we tried a dark theme. And since it was a 'practice' session, we didn't bother to iron the backdrop. Mental note to self: always iron the backdrop ;-)
Strobist info:
Flash 3 was as pictured above for 'Jukka' -photos, and bounced of a white sheet of paper on the laptop screen for the 'Sami' -photos.
For the IT Mill Photogs group.
A familiar setup for subjects on a black glass/acrylic base, acrylic here as the amount of dust will indicate.
Main difference to my usual setup, is the addition of a white reflector above. This is a cheap white memo board which sometimes gets hung on the wall for scribbling notes on. Often described as a dry wipe board, which uses pens with water based inks that will just wipe off with a dry cloth.
This is just resting on top of a pair of tracing paper screens, through which the Neewer SF-01 mini slave flashes are fired. Both activated by Blazzeo SLT-4 radio triggers mounted on mini tripods. The flashes are shielded from the black backdrop which is approx 12inches/300mm behind by a couple of sheets of black card attached to the screens with clothes pegs.
Simple but effective :)
The finished image is shown below:
Lighting glass from behind with a couple of 20W CFL lamps.
The lamps were placed behind a screen of 2 layers of tracing paper placed about 2inches/50mm apart to give a more even spread of light.
The vase is placed on a sheet of glass painted black on the underside, which gives the reflection.
This is flanked on either side by sheets of black card, to darken the edge of the stem of the vase.
Probably sounds more complicated than it is, but hopefully the pic shows how simple the setup is.
Worth noting on the shot below is the darker base, which was achieved by raising the camera higher than in this setup shot. I happened to like that a bit better ;-)