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***1/5/11 - Note: The setup as seen here was only really used once or twice. Although it offers quite a bit of mangification, it isn't realistically usable in the field due to it's weight - therefore this image is not representative of my usual setup.***
I've been getting a few e-mails recently about what equipment I am using to take my macrophotographs. So here's a picture of my setup.
The camera body is a Pentax *ist DL DSLR body.
The flash is an old Vivitar "Zoom Thyristor 3500" connected to the body by a cheap off-brand off camera flash cord. The flash is mounted on a bizarre old "PETRI" flash bracket with a ball head mount. The flash is diffused by a diffuser I made out of a Goldfish box, duct tape, paper towel, and clear plastic.
The body in this photo is mounted to a camera bellows, and a vintage Pentax Takumar bayonet mount 28mm f/2.8 prime lens is reversed on an old off-brand 2x teleconverter is mounted to the bellows. (The setup as shown is what I would use if I was planning on taking a picture of just the eyes of a jumping spider.)
The majority of the time I just use the 28mm mounted to the teleconverter with no bellows.
Occasionally, I will use an old SMC Pentax f/1.7 50mm prime reversed on the bellows or a 3x teleconverter in there somewhere.
The joy of staying in Brook, IOW is that it is but a 5 min drive to a morning setup over the chalk stacks at Freshwater Bay... 6m late August 2019.
I hope that I can upgrade soon to the 7RII a better macro lens and some Mitutoyo microscope lenses and maybe some studio flashlights. For now: A77, tamron 272 ES, 2x YN560 III, Stackshot.
I like setups and planned compositions. I always have so much fun!!
But I had little time for today's pic and all of my ideas lately have been a bit too complex to execute in a short time. So I walked around the house, grabbed some stuff, started testing ideas and this is the result that I liked the most.
I placed the orchid in front of a pizza baking tray and did a light painting with a UV light from behind. I like how different it looks from the regular flower shot.
Hope you like it too!!! =D
Finally taking a little time out to experiment with LCD sources for camera tossing, this was the setup. A slowly rotating filled polygon built with processing. These were just trials and unfortunately I won't have any polished results to share... and here's why...
The sad news, although camera tossing is dangerous, I always said it is far less dangerous than just everyday handling of your camera. I just proved it. I finished a round of trials with this setup, put the camera down on the pillow on a chair (the same pillow I had been using to catch it with), and it promptly flopped off onto the floor. Lens train was smushed, popped it back into place, but the focus mechanism refused to work after and it is officially dead with a dreaded "camera error" on boot. *sigh*
I had written several scripts and many of them had various different behaviors... I was looking forward to testing with them. Alas.
This is a setup from a Shoot I had the other night. AB800 Boomed Dished/Socked, ABR800/30"MU below. SB28DX's back left/right. SB600 w/ homemade black straw grid at background. Fired with V2s / built in AB optical slaves. Actual shots from this set to come.
Setup for This Shot
Wordrobe by: www.upscalestripper.com
Outdoor Concert Setup Kellie Pickler concert,road crew setting up for an evening show, I happened to stumble on it while to shoot a sign, found in North Carolina.
This Takahashi CCA250 is running at f 3.6, using the Takahashi 645 superreducer. The camera is a ASI ZWO2600MC. The mount a 10 micron 2000HPS. This setup is currently located at E-EYE in Spain where the skies are pristine and the number of clear nights a lot higher then at home !
This is my Bike Packing setup for some days out camping when the better weather comes, this was just to see what gear I could load up without it being overloaded .
With the tent and two side bags I can comfortably carry around 10kg, 2kg of water and another 2 kg with the front bar bags .
Still probably too much weight on the back ?
This is a picture of the lighting setup that I used today to photograph hummingbirds at my sister and brother-in-law's house. The light stand at the back is to put light on the sky colored background that my wife painted for this purpose. The other 4 light stands have a total of 5 strobes all pointed at the right side of the red hummingbird feeder. I put tape over the holes on the left side of the feeder so that the birds would only feed from the holes on the right side. Down below in the first comment you can see one of the pictures I took using this setup.
Some people find these setup shots helpful so I've created an album with some of them. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157642517882554
Setup shot for this polaroid photo. Home Depot light and aluminum foil reflector. I only shoot with the high budget stuff!
I put together a widefield setup from scraps and spare bits laying around to run as a second imaging rig. My main setup is a 100mm refractor on an EQ mount. My favorite star party of the year Okie-Tex is coming up, the first week of October. I want to maximize my time under the Bortle-1 skies.
This is an old Nikon D7100 from 2013, full spectrum modified, a Rokinon 135mm prime lens, ZWO Eaf focuser, Sky-Watcher Evo-Guide and ZWO ASI 178mm guide cam. The Nikon D7100 has had long and tuff life. It's sensor is showing it's age, but it can get the job done with enough integration.
I like to use aluminum angle iron bolted to universal "bread plates". This way, I can mount accessories any way I need to.
I spent last Tuesday and Wednesday nights at CRO working the kinks out of this setup. After a few adjustments and swapping out guide cameras, it's working great. I tested it with APT, Backyard Nikon, PHD2 and Celestron PWI and Cartes du Ciel.
I was able to get some data on the Nebulae near Deneb. The North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula.
Image data:
88), 5-minute, iso-200, f/3.2 at 135mm, stacked with calibration frames. 90% of best subs stacked. Nikon D7100 (full spectrum modified), guided, stacked with DSS, processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop.