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The 'professional' setup for my abstract colored reflections in glass shots.

Step 1: Empty a tequila bottle (if you are not of legal drinking age in your country, have one or both of your parents complete step 1).

Now:

You need: 1 empty interesting textured but clear glass bottle, colorful place mats, camera, 60mm macro lens, tripod, cheap broken studio light, brno white balance lens cap, painter's tape, some patience and lots of time to kill as you try different f/stops, lighting, and points of view. Nice pastime when a Nor'easter is dumping 15+ inches of snow outside.

Here's my super cheap standing desk setup. I've got paintcans and an old shelf to put the keyboard and mouse at the right level for my arms and cinderblocks for the monitor (this could actually be a few inches higher to be perfect). I've also got a pillow case there to protect my pants from the white paint on the desk. Having a white line on your crotch is very disturbing and probably looked bad in public. This desk also has other features that you can see here:

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DEMO Setup - DEMO Fall 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California Monday October 14, 2013. Complete coverage of DEMO, the Launchpad for Emerging Technologies and Trends, can be found at bit.ly/DEMOsite.

Setup shot for Teleportation

Staring my Canon EOS 40D.

Co-staring my 10-22mm lens.

Also featuring my desk at work.

Also featuring sekret formula Thai RedBull.

Also featuring the lolly jar I won at work!

Also featuring one of the worst LCD monitors ever :)

Also featuring the Mighty Gorillapod.

Also featuring a Nikon flash on Canon camera!

I say old chap, won't a Nikon flash on a Canon camera blow things up?

Strobist: This was taken with the on-phone flash on my Samsung i8510. Eww!

Setup for "House Ripoff".

Strobist Info: Main was SB-800 camera right at 1/16, 1/2 CTO gel and shoot thru brolly. Sheet of matte board as gobo to prevent spill onto background. Background light was SB-800 on floor at 1/16, feathered up wall. Kicker was SB-800 camera left at 1/128. ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/250th.

Here's the setup of the computer.

It's as ugly as it is brilliant. What to do when using umbrellas in extremely high wind? Cut down the number of stands to one, strap it to a 20 pound camera bag, and strap that to a steel garden table.

What were we thinking?

Umbrellas are fun and I need to buy some. Thanks to Brad Randell for supplying my teaser and helping me set this up.

Bare flash aimed into the wall on camera left, set to 1/2 power and zoomed to 200mm. Second flash to camera right flash set to 1/2 power .

Haha my messy setup for the

Setup shot for Bloody Mary, Snacks and Caipirinha shoot

Setup shot for Valleri. The white bounce card on the left was not always used, see model photo for details.

This was a corner of the studio with black walls. I had her stand just a few feet from the back wall and used the softbox at an angle to get the background to go pure black.

Strobist setup for day 110 of my 365

Setup of the photo fest of Birthday and Christmas portraits for my daughter. Borrowed LegoDraggin's lighting gear as mine isn't as extensive yet.

Strobist info:

2x Promaster flash set to 24mm zoom at 1/2 power pointed into reflective umbrella

1x Promaster flash set to 24mm zoom at 1/8 power in shoot through umbrella

triggered with wireless triggers (don't know the brand)

DEMO Setup - DEMO Fall 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California Monday October 14, 2013. Complete coverage of DEMO, the Launchpad for Emerging Technologies and Trends, can be found at bit.ly/DEMOsite.

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Starting the wool burnng

More explanation on the set page

Strobist setup for day 207 of my 365

Shot with my phone, sorry. This is the setup for Pair.

I have a CTO-gelled flash in the foreground, adorned with a cardboard snoot manufactured for the occasion. The camera is to the right, with a 300mm lens, and the flowers are sitting on the table to the left. In the background is the other flash, greened. The camera was color-balanced for tungsten. I triggered the camera from my laptop so I could see full-res results for every shot.

The snooted flash is at full power and the greened flash is at 1/4, but I still couldn't get enough light. The snoot, especially, cuts most of the light. Then I had one of those "Oh, duh" moments. I turned off the overhead lights, left the shutter open for 30 seconds, and triggered the flashes 3 times.

A bit of sensor noise, due to the long exposure, was mostly removed in Gimp.

Setup of the game between Jon and Than Damn Punk.

setup for this shot

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at least it was easy to keep the grad filter flat against the lens

Home Office/Setup Evolution.

I have been working from home now for over a year and needs/requirements have changed. Like many other people, I was made redundant in 2020. I was lucky to find another job fairly quickly hence the update.

Mac Mini 2020 (2018) for personal use, connected to a eGPU to drive the triple screen setup.

Dell Latitude connected to a Dell D6000 dock driving the displays, LAN and other peripherals for work use.

Some of the kit has been supplied by my employer.

A view of the repositioned Faye graphic, from the right.

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Setup for this shot

Another of those 99 cent store trash cans was used here:

Zippo Setup

Margaret helps me test out my new 60" umbrella. It's big.

Setup shot for this photo.

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unfortunately, there are no feline assistants

One Light @ 400w Full Power, Shooting into 8-10 mirrors to selectively light the doll. The strobe has a green and red gel with some mirrors reflecting red,green and white light. The tree branches are acting as gobos!(was holding them in between doll and mirrors)photo

Setup picture for depth of field

Setup for Cornered

Setup shot for this, except I think the two rims had flags on them and were closer together.

This is the set up for this image, which was a follow up of this earlier image.