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This is a setup shot for my image: Three Wishes:
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Target shot photographed with my Nikon D600 and 105mm macro lens. Setup shot done with my Nikon D90 and rented Rokinon 14mm ultrawide manual focus lens.
It was a pretty complex lighting setup, and I even included my [failed] smoke capturing rig. I lit 3 incense sticks, then covered them with the funnel and topped the funnel with an inverted beer bottle to catpure the smoke. I got bupkis.
I eventually broke down and placed an incense cone behind the bottle, but didn't get near the smoke I was hoping for.
Lit with: Nikon SB-700 off camera flash to camera left, shooting horizontally with a snoot. Opposite angle, to camera right, was my mini maglite held in place with my plamp (getting so much use out of that thing). My ring light was my third light (suspended above the subject by a closed cabinet door), pointed straight down on the bottle mouth. I used a white card to reflect some of the SB-700's light back onto the right side of the bottle.
Target specs: Nikon D600, Nikon 105mm, f/3, ISO 400, 1/320 second fast sync flash.
Setup specs: Nikon D90, Rokinon 14mm, estimated f/11, ISO 200, 10 seconds, ambient light.
Macro test setups.
Test object : KC73129MP
Number of Effective Pixels: 500(H) ´ 582(V)
Unit Pixel Size: 9.80um(H) ´ 6.30um(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.
The left part shows a 100% crop, the right image shows the entire picture. Focalt lenght and lens type are always marked.
Mitutoyo M Plan APO 10X lens is the real winner. That may be for its price. Again, you can not go too low with the focalt value The AIS35mm 2.8 reverse lens performs clearly worse. In contrast, the lens AF50mm doing a lot better. Macro AF60mm when reverse is very limited in length focalt but it does well with 200mm.
This is the result of one shot, there is no stacking used in these tests. Because the sensor is very flat so it can be done.
Setup Shot for 075/365 Pushing Limits.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, f/7.1, 1/250s, ISO 400
Strobist Info:
-Canon 430EXII Camera right (behind camera) and in front of subject, 1/1Power, @105mm zoom, about 5 feet high, 10 feet away from subject fired bare.
-Canon 430EXII Camera right and behind subject, 1/1Power, @105mm zoom, about 5 feet high, 10 feet away from subject fired bare.
-Flash was triggered with Interfit Strobies.
My setup for a ds106 radio show tonight with Bryan Alexander. I was not happy with my audio mixing in NiceCast, and resorted to a lower tech approach.
The MacBookPro on the left was used to Skype with Bryan (open mic and speakers). I also had WireTapPro set up to record all system and input audio.
The old iBook on the right I used to play our eerie audio sounds (via VLC) pumped out to the little speakers
The audio was streamed via Papaya app on my iPhone (sitting in the middle on a book).
The beer makes it all work smoothly.
My new test-setup for lens-testing. Read more about this at Camera Labs
Watch out: This is only a 2792 x 3956 crop from the full frame, covering approx. a quarter of the sensor.
My home setup now that the iMac has been relegated to guest duty. PowerMac G4 Quicksilver, Harman Kardon Soundsticks II, Logitech MX700 mouse & Cordless Elite Keyboard, Palm Tungsten T3
Eventual spec for this 2002 quicksilver will be Dual 1.8GHz G4 processors, 1.5GB Ram, DL Superdrive, ATI Radeon 9600 pro mac edition, 108mbps wifi, usb 2.0 / firewire 800, 1TB + storage... am getting there slowly but surely.
Don't want to get one of apples new machines as they just don't have anything in this class anymore in terms of aesthetics or expandability. Plus i've always had a soft spot for the quicksilvers
This is the setup we used to record whole body movement of animals (rats in our case) with the Gemvid system: www.jcircadianrhythms.com/content/4/1/10
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Till Brönner (Trompete) und Günter "Baby" Sommer (Schlagzeug) im Moods. Ein musikalisch sehr schönes Konzert, für mich eines der besten Konzerte des Jahres. Visuell war es schwarz dominiert, deshalb hier Till's schön farbiges Pedalboard.
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Till Brönner (trumpet) and Günter "Baby" Sommer (drums) playing in the music club Moods. To me one of the best concerts of the year. From the visual point of view it was dominated by black. That's why I present Till's pedal board.
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Olympus E-P2, Voigtländer Nokton 50mm/1.1
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Light setup for the Citrus product shoot.
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Strobist: SB-24 in 57" brolly camera left, PZ-1 in small shoot through umbrella camera right, and another PZ-1 behind white backdrop
Studio setup, X.Y.Zèbres, Huy.
Guitar amp :
Orange Tiny Terror.
Microphones :
Neumann U87.
Audix OM5.
Gtr :
Framus Grand Star.
Detail of the frame support. 7 positions are possible to adjust the frame. Smaller or bigger insects can be captured. 2 special precise alu bold are used so that the lasersbeams stay correct adjusted.
How to take insects in flight see:
Setup for Eruption followed Ryan Taylor's excellent Water Figure Tutorial.
I forgot to shoot the setup at the time so I have recreated it.
Out of picture, my pc is running Multisine 1.74. Using the headphone output I have then connected my pc via the Mic input to an old stereo (at the the top of the picture) which is connected to the speaker.
The speaker was wrapped in clingfilm, and a small amount of a 50:50 cornflour (cornstarch)-water mix was placed on top.
Due to the small space, I could not get the legs of my Giottos MTL9361B tripod splayed wide enough to drop the camera in line with the top of the speaker. So I moved the centre column into the lateral position and hund the camera upside down off my Manfrotto 322RC2 ball head.
The lights on the landing and bedroom behind were turned off and at f/16 I ran a 5 second exposure. Using my wireless remote shutter I triggered the camera. During the 5 second exposure I activated a 0.2 sec pulse at a frequency of 120Hz on my pc and using a PT-04 wireless flash trigger in the other hand tried to time the flash to coincide with the sound. This took several attempts to time it right, and in actual fact the final Eruption shot is actually a blend in CS3 of two images in order to increase the drama.
The ghosting in Eruption is not an artefact of blending the two images, but due to some double triggering of the flashes when I pressed the remote trigger.
The pink/orange hues in the conflour-water mix of the final shot are, I think, attributable to the flashes bouncing off the bare plaster walls. This was not intended but presumably it would have helped to soften the light as specular highlights are not too much of a problem.
The final edit involved usual adjustments in LR3.6 to saturation, levels, sharpening etc together with burning in CS3 to darken the background which in the original shot I felt was distracting.
Olympus XZ-1
1/15 sec at f/1.8
ISO 200
6 mm
Copyright 2011 Ben Gethin
Setup for this shot
Had some issues taking the shot, they are mostly detailed in the description.
The main problem was shooting handheld, the glass I used wax not good shape and I didn’t realise until I have taken a number of shots. I was chimping the odd shot and even though I was trying to line everything up.... if didn’t look right. In the need by twisting the grating and chocking up one corner I was able to get something approaching normality.
In the absence of anything else a number of items of clothing worked their way into the shot. Particularly my work pants, and a t-shirt, but needs must!
I found using the big lamp as a modelling light was quite helpful but it’s a very soft light that is great for my eBay auctions but not really any match for the flash.
Setup for "Selfy".
Strobist:
Ranger A Head, A port at 5.3, 70cm white maxisoft with silver deflector and 25 degree grid above me as key light.
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 2.7, 135 Midi Octa with both diffusers, below me as fill.
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 4.3, 130x50 strip with inner diffuser and 130x15 mask, camera left
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 3.9, 130x50 strip with inner diffuser and 130x15 mask, camera right
RX600, 3.0, 21cm reflector, rear camera left to light white background.
RX600, 3.0, 21cm reflector, rear camera right to light white background.
Triggered by Skyport Speed.
Another play with a really simple lighting setup and the subject doesnt get much more basic either :)
OK, it's not a great piece of art, but I great way to play around with lighting and get to know your way around your camera.
A single 20W CFL desklamp is used to illuminate both the background, which provides the reflected colour, plus a glancing light off the subject as well.
The cleanser is on an A4 size sheet of glass, which has the underside spray painted black to create a black mirror.
This is also small enough to allow it to be rotated easily to alter the shooting angle.
Either side are placed a couple of A4 sheets of black card folded in half to form a V shape, which makes them freestanding and easy to move around to alter the black reflections on the edges of the drops of cleanser.
Hopefully this will be useful to those starting to explore lighting and maybe even to some older hands.
Setup shot for PIerre Stealing Julie's Bike. The notes should explain everything, and the other angle is here.
Blog: www.photosmudger.com/
The setup shot of my Smarties Bootcamp entry. Hey, this is my first ever setup shot, I must be progressing. And yes those are coins in the foreground (sort of). Dual flashes bouncing off the wall ( I left my shoot through umbrella at work) with A4 reflecters to help even out the lighting a little.
Not the prettiest shot and the PS work is shoddy, but it's just a setup shot for this shot, which is much prettier. So be gentle, it was never intended to see the light of day. :)
Strobist: SB28 on the other side of the cube wall to create kickassness on wall. Balanced with ambient.
Lighting setup for "Head Of Sekhmet On An Aegis"
Equipment used:
-Nikon D80
---shot tethered to Powerbook G4 and Adobe Lightroom
-Nikon AF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens
-Manfrotto tripod with basic head
-Sekonic L-358 lightmeter
-Speedotron 2403B Powerpack
---triggered by on-camera flash directed into optical slave attached to PC-to-household cord
-Speedotron 102 Light Unit (strobe)
---with diffusing panel (3-4 sheets)
---mounted to DIY boom-stand (vice-grip light-stand clamped to pan-arm of a large video tripod)
-Speedotron 102 Light Unit (strobe)
---with small DIY diffusing dish (hot light snoot with small lamp reflector dish wrapped in diffusing cloth, held together with clips)
---mounted to Manfrotto Articulated Arm and Super Clamp
-DIY macro plexi stand (4x5 chrome display holder held by clips on an adjustable arm)
-curved sheet of seamless neutral-gray paper (movable, allows control of seamless background gradient without noticeable paper fibers)
-Qpcard 201 color-correction card (cropped out of final image)
Nothing wildly exciting with the setup.
The tray from the box of chocolates is placed on a sheet of glass, which has the underside painted black.
The glass prevents the light shining in from the sides from showing on the surface, as what is being photographed is a reflection, so only the black background reflects toward the camera.
A pair of 20W CFL lamps, mounted in my Pringles tube reflectors are placed behind screens of coloured paper. Nothing special about the paper, just the same as used in photocopying.
Not much light here, so long exposures are called for.
Strobist Setup for this photo...
I used two Yongnuo Speedlights YN460 and one YN560 in a softbox. One YN460 with a blue gel as rim light from right and the other one with green gel at the background. I triggered with Yongnuo RF-602. Camera was on tripod.
I made the bokeh with some wine glasses on a stool. It was a very unsafe construction, so just do this when your wife isn't at home... ;-)
Setup Image: one Sunpack 120j to camera right in softbox. One Alien Bee B800 to camera left.
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These images are from a November 8th Session with Carol. Carol was looking for images to accompany a new Yoga business and needed images for web and brochures.
Her first idea was to have images of her in yoga positions on top of a rail engine (train), but after multiple contacts she was unable to get clearance from any rail yards in the state because of liability.
Instead we went with something much more simple and clean.
Sometimes is better to go with a simple idea than getting locked into your inital first idea - especially when it involves large steam engines and trying to get permission and dealing with companies. In this case, doing something more clean and simple will help her in the long run, and eventually she warmed to the idea. Its difficult giving up your first idea of inspiration, but sometimes it simply isn't within your means to produce.