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Setup as of 1/19/09
24" iMac and 13" MacBook Pro
Full keyboard, and Magic Mouse
1 of 2 iPhones (his and hers)
Logitech Speakers
Thought it worth showing my setup for the Soap Bubbles shots, to show how different it is to my original inspiration, which came from Steve Hermitage's excellent video, link to which can be found here : www.flickr.com/photos/creative-images/4712307695/
My little softbox which can be seen at the top of the pic, just wasnt a big enough light source and gave a small highlight on the surface of the bubbles, a bit like a catchlight. So by using the light tent, this made the light a lot bigger.
I also used a couple of slave flashes either side, which I'm not sure made a big difference overall, but more light means smaller aperture, which equals more DOF, so they had a part to play :)
The bubble mixture is in a tin which contained Tuna originally, yes it did have a good wash first :)
This is sat on a paper kitchen towel to catch any spills and in turn this is sat on a couple of pieces of foam rubber just to add a bit of height, as my tripod was at its lowest setting.
Behind is a sheet of black Fun Foam as the background, I prefer it to black card, especially when liquids are involved in the shoot.
Ah, the bubble mixture is Fairy dishwashing detergent and water with a few drops of red food dye added. I didnt have any black food dye, but the red worked fine.
The flashes were all activated with Blazzeo SLT-4 Radio Triggers (rebadged PT-04TM's).
A Yongnuo YN460 set to 1/2 power and the DIY mini softbox attached mounted above the light tent.
The two flashes to the side are Neewer SF-01 Slave flashes.
The results can be seen here :
This is my setup for the picture of my macro setup. The flashstands hold SB800 and SB600 speedlights. Triggering was done using CLS/AWL.
Strobist Info: This photo was taken using a Sony A700 and Carl Zeiss 24-70/2.8. Minolta 3600HS(D) set to +0.7EV, mounted on an el-cheapo tripod (via mini-stand) to the left bounced off angled ceiling and triggered from pop-up commander.
The fiddle yard is half stocked during Setup of the 00Fremo meeting, as the fast-running clock in the background still set to neutral postition witnesses.
Setup shot for 110/365 Pat Bolster.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, f/4.0, 1/15s, ISO 320
Strobist Info:
-Canon 430EXII's Camera Left and in front of subject, 1/16 Power, @24mm zoom, about 8 feet high, 2 feet away from subject inside 40 inch Wescott softbox.
-Canon 430EXII Camera right and behind subject, 1/32 at 105mm Zoom fired bare, 8 feet high and 10 feet away from subject, fired bare.
-Flashes triggered with Interfit Strobies.
Strobistinfo:
Left(infront):5400HS-1/16-24mm-DIY softbox 8x31cm
Right: 6500HS(D)-1/4-24mm-DIY softbox 8x31cm
Right(of camera): LP120-1/8-85mm-DIY cardboard snoot 25cm
Left (back / rim): 5400HS-1/32-105-DIY 4.5cm grid
Background (rightside): Gn300AD-1/2 with gobo between light and the rightside of the background
Triggerd flashes 4 times for proper exposure.
Setup for:
Strobist:
Ranger A Head, A port at 5.7, 135 Midi Octa with both diffusers, above camera.
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 3.5, 100 Deep Octa with both diffusers, above Maisie.
RX600, 2.0, 21cm reflector with barn doors, rear camera left to light white background.
RX600, 2.0, 21cm reflector with barn doors, rear camera right to light white background.
Triggered by Skyport Speed.
See the resulting pic here.
Strobist:
2 Elinchrome Style 600S:
- 1 camera right bounced off silver umbrella (fill)
- 1 camera left shot through softbox (key light)
Fired via sync cord
Why mix the light modifiers? Because I only have one softbox and it was already on the strobe (I was too lazy to take it off). Actually you'll notice the shadow is "harder" to camera right -- that shadow is caused by the directional control of the softbox. The remainder of the room was mostly just "filled" with light from the umbrella with no real directionality.
View the larger version to see the details of the setup. (sorry for the black and white infrared pic)
Setup shot for Lighting102 assignment.
Strobist:
Cam R, Front- Metz 45CL-4 flash in The AJ Softy. Cam L, Up - Vivitar 283 with Cokebox Snoot, Cardboard grid gobo, and green gel. Cam L - small round mirror for specular highlight on back of squeezer. See setup pic.
Strobistinfo:
Above: GN300AD-1/8-Softbox 60x90 with grid
Right: LP160-24mm-1/64 through 50cm diffuser
Back Left: LP120-28mm-1/8 through 100x120cm diffuser
Front low: 50x100cm DIY silver reflector
Front left: 50x100cm DIY silver reflector
Lighting setup for previous Black Caterpillar photo. Profoto B1 AirTTL studio flash with Profoto 2x2 ft. RFI Softbox. Profoto AirRemote TTL-C radio trigger. Canon 5D Mark III with Canon 100mm Æ’2.8 macro lens. White foamcore reflector.
The objective here was not to create a fancy or dramatic lighting effect, but only to flood this jet-black and low-reflectivity subject with as much light as possible. The photo is a stack of three exposures, with stacking done in Photoshop CC 2014..
The white LED lamp is for focusing. It remains illuminated during the exposure, but it adds no discernible light to the exposure.
This photo: Canon 6D with a second, bare-headed, Profoto B1 directed at the ceiling to fill shadows and reduce contrast.
Setup for the basic shots, that made up the vast bulk of the book content. Notes should explain everything.
That bench took me and the editor 2 hours to put together, cue much swearing and skinned knuckles as we wrestled with it and various tools.
The visi vest is there as a visual aid to prevent people banging their heads on the loose end of the boom arm. It doesn't stop people banging their heads, but it means I've got a clear conscience when they do!
Blog: www.photosmudger.com/
For such a small item, there are a lot of elements in the setup and a looks a bit of a mess, I hope this description and the notes on the photo will make some sense of it.
I will start with the base the subject is sat on. The black at the bottom is a couple of pieces of foam rubber approx 50mm/2 inches thick, just to raise the subject off my low coffee table and to bring it closer to the flash which is on a mini tripod (out of sight here). On top of the black foam, is a 12mm/1/2 inch thick sheet of expanded polystyrene, topped with a sheet of paper from my printer. The coin is then attached to the top of a clear push/map pin, the spike of which is pushed through the paper into the polystyrene. This allows the base to be moved around to get the positioning right under the camera lense.
The camera is mounted as close to vertical as possible on my cheap, or should that be bargain, Hama tripod with the central column almost fully extended. This allows it to be wound up and down to adjust the focus between lense and subject.
The camera lense is fitted with two close-up lenses fitted together, a +2 and +10 doptre to give +12.. Also worth noting is the collapseable rubber lense hood, which shields the lenses from the flash, no daisy hood here, they are rubbish for tabletop work, make nice plant pot holders though:)
Where was I, Oh yeah, opposite the camera is a tracing paper diffusion panel, partially hidden by the desk lamp used to illuminate the area for focussing. The flash, a Neewer SF-1 mini slave flash is sat behind the diffusion panel, mounted on a mini tripod and radio trigger.
To the left and right of the subject are white card reflectors to bounce light back onto the subject, a third which fitted between the stem of the tripod and the camera lense has been removed to take this shot.
I think that wraps it up, take no notice of the shutter release, it wasnt plugged in for this shot, it just seem to spend it's life hanging on my tripod :)
Results of the setup can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4702794672/
Per Ringgo's request, here is a shot of my setup at my first photo exhibit on Sunday. I was one of the artists who participated in the Butchers Hill Studio portion of the School 33 Open Studio Tour, a two day citywide event in Baltimore. Behind my table is my good friend and talented photographer, Patty Clark. To the right is Maxine Taylor, a brilliant abstract impressionist painter and owner of the studio. With her is William White, a dear friend and my first exhibit customer! It's hard to see but I had my flickr slideshow running on my laptop the entire time. I have a lot to learn but am happy that I got feet wet. It was an awesome experience!
What to do on a snowy day? Take pictures of waterdrops. Turned out to be a lot of fun!
This is the setup that I used to create the images in this set
Setup shot for Maisie
Strobist:
Ranger A Head, B port at 3.3, 70cm white maxisoft with silver deflector and sock above Maisie as key light.
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 2.0, 135 Midi Octa with both diffusers, below me as fill.
Ranger Quadra A Head, B port at 1.5, 130x50 strip with both diffusers, camera left
Ranger Quadra A Head, B port at 1.5, 130x50 strip with both diffuser, camera right
RX600, 3.5, 21cm reflector, rear camera left to light white background.
RX600, 3.5, 21cm reflector, rear camera right to light white background.
Triggered by Skyport Speed.
The rather makeshift setup. It's strange, when viewed from further back, the Yongnuo flash on the left, appears to be providing all the light, when it is really the little Neewer SF-01 just to the right of the subject. The homemade card snoot pointing down at the card below does look a bit strange, but it works well to give a controlled beam of light and doesnt require much masking from the black backdrop, which is about a yard/meter behind the subject.
Results can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4521421117/
A few more notes on the pic.
Since the room was to tight i had to use the umbrella on the left side leaving me with small room to make any arrangments. I put a white umbrella and not the silver to create a soft light coming from the left and avoid reflections on the mirror also had some balanced light coming from the wall in front of the clown. I also use CTO Orange gel on the flash to better balance the skin tone. PW for triggering the flash 580EX and I always use the CP-E3 for faster recycling flash as you can see on the setup image.
Setup shot.
Strobist:
- One flourescent light stick on either side.
- 580 attached to homemade ringlight (triggered off camera cord - manual)
- 500DG for hair/hat light (triggered optically)
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 :)
Week 10's lighting setup.
Gives you a rough idea of how much I would like to get outside and take some pictures...
Really getting tired at the lack of space.
Strobist Info:
Canon 430 EXII - 1/8 - Camera Left, Shoot through Umbrella
Nikon SB-900 - 1/32 - Camera Right, Shoot through Umbrella
Triggered by Poverty Wizards
Final Shot Here
Contact Sheet Here
Lighting Diagram Here