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Note the voice controlled light stand on the right plus the different clothing style of the model and the assistant :)
read about how I set-up my Personal Domino as my main planner :) breakitdawns.blogspot.com/2013/11/planner-setup-personal-...
Setup photo to how I photograph the dogs at the Nashville Humane Assoc. I use a 5' wide seamless paper roll and a 4x4 square white tileboard for the dogs to stand on. I sit on the floor with the light right behind me and the pink elephant in one hand and my camera in the other and try to get the dogs to pay attention to me. That can be hard to do. Those dogs want to sniff everything and that board has had dogs sitting on it since last fall. There are all kinds of scents on that board.
AB800 in a medium 35" octabox
AB800 with a 40 degree grid for rim
SB800 bare on boom for rim
Setup for shots in the Splash set. One SB-800 left and one SB-24 right, both at 1/64. Fired the SB-24 with a poverty wizard and SB-800 in SU-4 slave mode (I only have one wireless trigger).
I have a new found respect for splash shots, they are quite tricky to get right and require quite a lot of cleaning up afterwards...
For this series I photographed in Raw to allow for some post processing which in turned out to be more or less necessary. Nothing advanced, just some simple post processing in iPhoto: adjusting levels/curves/contrast, bringing back highlights, white balance, straighten. crop and sharpening.
An aquarium would've been best for the shots where I drop stuff, unfortunately I only had a round glass jar which means you can see some flash highlight reflecting in the lemon shots (I cropped the shell tighter so it is out of frame).
My desk/PC setup. I've got my Sony Vaio laptop, a few books, some CD's, all of my DS games, my Nintendo DS Lite, a lamp, and a stupid little car at the top. :D
strobist setup: flash at 1/2 power shot through softbox, fired by blazzeo wireless trigger camera right
Setup shot for 056/365 The Thinking Man.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, f/6.3, 1/50s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
-Canon 430EXII Camera right and in front of subject, 1/2 Power, @24mm zoom, about 8 feet high, 5 feet away from subject through 40 inch Wescott softbox.
-Canon 430EXII Camera left and behind subject, 1/2 Power, @105mm zoom, about 7 feet high, 10 feet away from subject fired bare.
-Canon 430EXII under and behind subject lying on ground point up at 22.5 degrees pointing at the background wall, 1/16 Power, @24mm zoom.
-Flash was triggered with Interfit Strobies.
Closeup of the laserpointer and the photodiode as detector. The laserpointer is digital pulsed at short intervals. This is more reliable than continu DC signals. 2 laserpointers are used as croslasers. The central point of the 2 laserbeams is the focuspoint where the camera must be manual set. Also the flashes are pointed to this point. the 2 lasers have a distance of 360mm. The camera can be adjusted for a macro ratio from 1:1 tot 1:4 The macro range depends of the insect type. Most insects like fies or bees have a frame of 60mm.
How to take insects in flight see:
Current workstation setup. Could really do with some more monitors, and maybe that gap on the left could take a nice new netbook!
PC is to the right of the desk, in a Coolermaster Cosmos 1000; looks a bit like a portable air-conditioning unit! Main screen is a Samsung 26". Been quite pleased with it, although at some angles does have a bit of a pink cast. It's calibrated with a Spyder 2. The old screen on the right is an NEC 17" - also been a good screen. And then there's the work laptop.
Lighting is from two recessed halogen spots overhead. The walls are actually white.
Must offer apologies to David Bailey, but his book "If We Shadows" is the perfect size so that my laptop can balance on the corner of the desk! Just wish I'd cleaned the finger marks of the glass desktop! ;-)
Setup used for day one of the Alberta Health Services, Long Service Award portraits. Teardown stage.
SB-900 (already removed on this picture :-( ) @20mm, 1/16, manual mode on a boom arm above the glass pointed at the background.
I set the camera to M mode with f10 and an exposure of 5 seconds. With this settings I was able to get rid of most of the ambient light and I had 5 seconds to pour some water in the glass and trigger the flash by hand with skyports. According to Nikon the flash duration @1/16 is about 1/10000s.
Setup shot for 030/365 Note To Self
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.4 USM, f/2.5, 1/250s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
Canon 430EXII Camera Left and directly facing subject, 1/32 power, @28mm zoom, White shoot through umbrella, 5 feet high & 10 feet away from subject.
Canon 430EXII Camera Right and behind subject, 1/16 power, @70mm zoom, fired bare, 5feet high & 4 feet away from subject.
Canon 430EXII Camera Right, 1/32 power, @70mm zoom, 3 feet high & 3 feet away fired bare at back of subject.
Flashes were triggered with Interfit Strobies. Camera was fired with wired remote self timer.
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.
Strobist: SB800 with blue gel underneath the plastic container holding the ice and bottle. Second SB800 with small DIY softbox above right. Lights fired using pocket wizards. Photo is here.
I did kind of a lazy job on these setup shots, and wish they were better, but I wanted to post something about the setup. This is the front half of last nights water drop setup. I built a mariotte siphon out of PVC pipe, but I then quickly decided that it was not necessary. I am dropping such a small volume of water that the pressure change is not significant. If I go really long, I can just top off the reservoir to keep it at similar water level.
I have been keeping a pretty high water level/pressure. I've found that this allows me to fire shorter pulses to the solenoid valve, and improves repeatability and control of drop size.
Setup for some of shots in this set. Yellow paper was running short. Content aware fill helped to extend the background :)
The lighting is obviously temporary and isn't doing me any favors, but it's a start.
The box is a cardboard box I found in my basement and cut four holes in. I then covered those holes with three shirts I bought from a thrift store and cut up, and affixed the shirts to the box by using tape. The infinite background is a $3 pack of posterboard I bought from Staples earlier in the week. I got lucky and this "landscape mode" takes the natural width of the paper. "Portrait" mode required a little cutting of a different piece.
Damage overall: about $10. Thanks, strobist, for the idea.
A very simple setup for a light table.
At the base of it is a cardboard box, which has a white interior. Inside this is placed a pair of 20watt stick type CFL lamps. Ideal as they give off very little heat.
For the surface, I used a white plastic bag, inside of which a sheet of glass was placed. This enabled me to get the plastic bag stretched out nice and flat, before placing another sheet of glass on top to place the subject on.
As can be seen, the bag diffused and evened out the light really well, giving a nice white light source.
A couple of pieces of black card and a black background behind finished off the setup. These were to prevent stray light mainly, though they might also provide a bit a bit of contrast in the subject also. Difficult to tell for sure :)
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
Almost didnt post a setup shot today, as this is another variation on the one I have been using over the last few days, but i guess it shows how versatile it is.
All the light here is being bounced off the white background and there are black cards clipped onto my diffusion screens to prevent light from the sides hitting the subject.
Again there are 3 stick type CFL lamps mounted in Pringles reflectors. One each side and the third to the rear and below the glass shelf, which has the underside painted black, for the mirror effect.
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.
Petunias under flashlight.
Strobist setup info: two SB26s to left and right of the subject were aimed at the white backdrop and set to overexpose it by 1-2 stops. The third SB26 to camera left was warmed with 1 1/4 CTO (Tungsten) gel and softened slightly with a homemade softbox. All three flashes were triggered by Elinchrom Skyports (overkill, because with the SB26's light-sensitive sensor I could have slaved two of them).