An overview of my setup. Originally I started with the table and a large sheet of white background held up by a refrigerator box. I later built the DIY light table. Two light stands hold up a bar with the siphons and valves (not shown) and I have flexible arms and a magic arm attached to them for speedlights. Next to it is a stand I recently added to protect my equipment from the drops. On the bottom are my liquid additives. Above that are premixed colors and above that are my two Stopshots.

One Striplight from top with additional diffuser

Final shots here

Setup for Mother of Pearl. For the actual shot I held both the flashlight and iPod (turned on) up in the air pointing downwards at the background and clam respectively. Olle helped me trigger the camera with an IR remote.

Setup for this.

This is where I take my agate photographs and the setup is very light and portable. Using two sunlamps I purchased at Home Depot, set at about 45 degree angles and about even with my chair - a simple cardboard box, painted flat-black inside and covered with black felt, with a hole cut in the front, just big enough to display the various size agates I am photographing. All other light sources are turned off or blacked out by other pieces of black cloth.

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Setup shot for Travis Roy

My buddy Travis has recently become very involved with the Granite State Skeptics. He's is more frequently blogging and hosting events, so he wanted something that he could use as a visual for his posts and stuff. So, Trav stopped by today for a quick session.

We ended up lighting him with three lights; one with a grid behind him as a rim light, one light with a grid that was pointed at the front of his computer, and the third light was a small speedlight with a blue gel that we had sitting on his laptop keyboard, pointed at the laptop screen. We had a white piece of paper attached to the screen, and when the light fired, it bounced the blue light back at Travis, filling him with a blue screen glow.

I'm pretty happy with how this came out, in relative short time.

Set up for the Four sisters shot (the flash on right misfired....)

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Getting ready to settle in for a long night on Tuesday. Even from the UK I'll be tuning in as the results come in.

The home entertainment setup is explained here.

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mac mini and PC

This is the setup shot for the glass of milk photo. I positioned a 580EX behind the glass set to a very narrow beam to highlight the glass, with a gobo (a diary i had lying around) to block the light from hitting the top of the glass too harshly. It also lights the table quite nicely i think :)

I also fired a 430EX into a silver umbrella which was directed away from the glass, to light the milk from the front. I tried a silver reflector but the reflections were too obvious and harsh.

Setup de iluminación

Dos discos reflectores:

-Uno traslúcido en la ventana

-Uno dorado para las sombras

Canon 400D y objetivo 50mm f/1,8

Photoshop CS5

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The Setup for THIS SHOT

Enjoy and HSS!

(I just noticed there is an error, the lens used in the real shot was an EF 85mm f.1/8, not the 50mm) I'll upload a correction after the playoffs ;)

Shot with my T1i and EFS 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

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Strobist info:

One light setup, 580ex @ 1/16th power on to blue background board, white reflector camera left, triggered by pocket wizards

Image here www.flickr.com/photos/louisedavis/7040250089/in/photostream/

and here www.flickr.com/photos/louisedavis/7040240393/in/photostream/

A quick look at the setup arrangement for the orchid shot

Setup for this shot and this shot.

The idea was to position the strobe directly above the tea cup, with a reflector below it that would let through only a narrow beam of light. This beam of light would only hit the bottom of the cup, making the tea glow, while the light bounced off the first reflector would provide fill, lighting the scene from the side. Unfortunately I couldn't get the beam narrow enough, so it ended up lighting a small area around the cup also. Wish I'd had some black al-foil and more time...

Initial attempts were with the silver side of the big reflector, but this gave too harsh a shadow behind the cup, so I flipped it to the white side, increased the strobe power and stuck 3 stops worth of ND filter on the bottom of the hole in the cardboard. Although I'm now thinking that 2 stops would have been better, to keep the cup-light brighter than the fill light.

See image notes for details.

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Not much of a lighting setup. There is a big softbox overhead.

Finished image is here.

The lens is not wide enough to capture all the hilarity. There's another flash on the right side. This was shot in the footbaths near the Gauntlet office.

Jordyn is promising Ryan that he actually used warm water this time, and the white background is courtesy of the movie poster "Garden State", if I remember correctly. Miscellanea!

Shot 1 and Shot 2.

Setup shot for this

setup for this shot.

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Setup for this photo

Taken with:

- EF24-70L USM @ 45mm. @ f/2.8 @ 1/100s.

- Canon EF 430 @ 1/2 @ 24mm with a dark green gel, behind a 70cm umbrella pointing to the end of the SPain GirlS graffiti ;)

- Metz 48 AF-1 @ 1/16 @ 105mm. with full CTO gel

Setup shot for www.flickr.com/photos/30389468@N08/3687317714/

The setup is pretty self-explaining...The fun bit was constantly spilling the honey everywhere by mistake and then having to clean up properly - with my fingers, of course...other notes are in the photo.

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Strobist Info: SB-800 @ 35mm @ 1/64 Diffuser Camera Right and High above shooting through a storage bin top for diffusion

Camera Info: Nikon D7000 | 60mm(ƒ/2.8) 60mm | ƒ/6.3 | ISO 200 | 1/100s

Setup for THIS

Not exactly GBTV HQ, but we had power and Wi-Fi so we were happy!

Strobist: SB800, manual model 1/8 power, in reflective umbrella and diffusion cloth to the left. Fired via Nikon CLS. Photo is here.

Here's the setup for the two cadillac shots. I had to use a sync cord on the bottom left light because the others with the grids would not trip the slave. I need a bigger piece of glass...and a 1:1 scale model.

Picture1

Picture2

2nd pic

you know standard kind of thing mac mini cd tower there's a phone and some water oh and i moved those tools

Setup for www.flickr.com/photos/hyeenus/4292881014

Setup shot for

this

Attempt at water drops, a la strobist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-photograph-water-dro...

--Nikon D70

--SB-28DX

--SB-24 w/ gel

--White card as reflector

--Water

--Drips

(Setup pic from Canon Powershot S3)

Current setup for tonight's imaging session. Image has notes to detail what is what. Photo taken looking east from my back garden.

Quick Easy Setup for Fashion Photography (Lighting Setup)

Nikon D300

AF NIKKOR 85 mm 1:1,8D

Nikon SB-800 trough Flash2Softbox

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A brief shot of how my desk was setup, x86 box on the left and powerbook on the right. "Champag-en?"

This is the setup I used to digitize a bunch of my old slides. It was WAY faster than scanning the slides in, and the quality was also way better (my scanner only scanned in at 2400 dpi).

The slide is held in a binder clip (I could make something more permanent, but I don't have that many slides to do) and sits in front of a piece of plain white 20 lb bond paper. The SB400 flash is behind the white paper. The camera is a Nikon D40 with the kit 18-55 lens, to which I added a cheap Neewer wide angle macro lens. The aluminum bar is my homemade flash bracket; I didn't feel like detaching my flash synch cable from it.

I got the general idea of copying the slides like this from www.scantips.com/es-1.html

There are more details there that would probably get you better results (I was using full auto macro mode).

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