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This was a setup I tried a little while ago, but am just now posting. Tell me what you think! I am eager to hear what others think about these kind of setups.
Thanks for viewing and I'd appreciate a comment over a favorite. ;)
As my wife and I were driving Route 23 north in Kentucky headed towards West Virginia, I noticed a train headed in our same direction. I then noticed that the lead engine was a Canadian Pacific diesel, which I've never seen one in person. I looked at my wife and pretty much just said I was going to get ahead of it and stop to take a few pictures. Thankfully the tracks pace the road for several miles along that stretch of 23, so I sped up, got to a pull-off spot and was able to get out and snap some pictures.
The train consisted of a CP lead unit in tandem with a CSX engine, and then a long line of CSX coal hoppers. I snapped a bunch of pictures and then got back in the car. We got back on the road, and of course caught back up with the train. I again told my wife I was gonna get ahead of it and try to get one more set of pics, which she excitedly encouraged. I was able to get ahead of the train again, get pulled off, and setup to take another series of pictures at a different crossing.
I know for some, these pictures may be nothing special.....but for me, it was a little slice of excitement in what was an otherwise winding down road-trip as we approached Huntington WV, and then Teays Valley WV. Getting a chance to take some of my own pictures of a CP engine, and doing a quick train chase just made for an exciting evening for both of us.
In a not-so-distant future, an ex-police drone turned bounty hunter/gun for hire scours a post-apocalyptic wasteland known as Earth in search of any job that may come his way.
Using his modified police-issue hardlight tool emitter with a claw blade, axe blade, and chain whip function, Reaper has become known across the wasteland as one of the most feared, and deadly individuals. He is certainly a force to be reckoned with.
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Let me know what you guys think!
I'll hopefully have a white backdrop setup soon so I can take some clearer shots for you all to see the build of this and all of my other MOCs!
Experiences are the glue which will make you either bond with the camera setup you are using or eventually detach with it. Of course the specifications, image quality, ergonomics and all that will, in some way, lead you to some specific camera, but in a broad picture of life specs have very little meaning in the end. Experiences, images and memories you create are much more important and after decades nobody cares about the crop-factor, megapixels or burst rate of your setup (well you might, but only for sake of understanding how amusingly important that all once seemed). However, the experiences are the real thread of life which you will remember and be meaningful for you even after decades.
That’s why it’s really no miracle that my old Nex-5N became my dearest camera setup. It was my first digital camera that I actually bought myself instead of loaning from one from my friends. It was the camera I used when creating memories of my first daughter Aura. And finally it was the camera I happened to have when the photo bug bit me and I became a photography enthusiast that I am today. As you can see, the status of Nex-5N in my life was determined by the experiences I had with that particular camera, and if you follow this train of thought you’ll quickly understand that there are special occasions in everyone’s life when ‘that camera setup’ can emerge, and that those occasions are very much convoyed by the experiences you live. To continue this thinking, it seems to me that you can only have, at most, two or three ‘golden camera setups’ in your life, depending how active you are with your camera and what happens in your life – other setups are just ‘noise’ and uninteresting upgrades in-between the life situations. Those golden setups are the cameras you will remember with great joy and also something you will always find yourself yearning back – even if it would be totally impossible.
his is what the perfect camera setup is, and it’s what many of us are building bit by bit with lenses, accessories and such. As for my current Sony/Zeiss setup, I can safely say that there is a lot of ‘gold-potential’ there from both of the specs and the life’s point of view. For example, in terms of lenses, I’ve got great setup of different focal lengths with Zeiss image quality. Some of them are more traditional manual focus lenses (Loxia) and some of them are modern performers with AF and such (Batis & Touit). There is really nothing missing. In terms of life, I’m documenting the first steps of our second daughter Meri while Aura is also growing up, and both of them are bringing new things to our life on a daily basis. In short, I’m living the perhaps the most significant years of life and I have a camera setup to match it – at least for this year as the ‘Days of Zeiss’ project is determined to end at 31st of December. ‘Keep on shooting’, I try to remind myself every day.
And yet, one just cannot capture everything. As we were on a holiday at Åland islands, one of the greatest thing there for us was the sea. To understand how great it was for us, you have to know that normally we live at the continent and there are just lakes which we use for swimming at summer. Now that we were at the Åland islands we had an opportunity to swim at the sea – which was also first time for Aura and Meri to be in contact with the sea. This all happened on beach where there was so white and fine sand that ‘how can sand be as white as this’ Aura spontaneously yelled when she saw the beach. I took many pictures there, but my favourite moment was when I carried Aura on my lap deeper into sea. She hold her hand around my neck as she was squinting for bright sun light. When we got deep enough I threw her into air so many times that eventually it hurt my back. She was giggling and salty seawater was splashing into my eyes as I tried to threw her as high as I could. After that we got up on the dock just to run into beach and to do it again. One of those moments that wasn’t captured by the camera but I hope recollection of it will emerge from the pictures I did took. It’s all about the experiences.
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No more IM's pls. :)
here is the setup for the bug shots. every recent bug shot is taken from the exact same pot plant on my back deck. including; bee, hoverfly, spiders etc.
i move the flash around depending on the sun and of course the position of the subject. the 322 head is not a great option for those that have asked because the tiny movements you need for macro adjustments are just too difficult with the trigger. i will be getting a geared head soon and use the 322 on my monopod when i get one. if anyone has any suggestions on what geared head works well, i;m all ears. :-p
i also sometimes use a stryrofoam sheet or just some A4 white paper to bounce light back if i need it. but mostly i just use the built in bounce card on the sb800.
i have a home-made portable backdrop which i sometimes used for shots where i can;t get a clean background. i will post the image and a "how to" when i have some time.
i also use a softbox for flowers which is made or a box of corona, (without the beer). :)
no, i haven;t had any issues firing the strobes at all outdoors. i know some people do and they purchase pocketwizards. i think becasue i use the strobes close to the cam i have no issues. i don;t know enuf about the other stuff so i recommend you read thru the strobist site/ flickr group, (as i have), for more detailed answers and tips.
Dear friends, after so many mail requests here´s the setup for "Gravity Drink"
Two softboxes triggered at 1/8 , and two SB-800 wirelessly triggered towards the white wall at 1/8
Welcome to the candy cemetery, where all the sweets lay to rest. And while you probably sacrifice some toffee to little ghost and ghouls tonight, Flandre is already doing the gravedigging by munching away a whole cake.
Every October I restrain myself from eating any sugar. Therefore, for me the spooky season is simultaneously the best and the worst month of the year. In order to distract myself I came up with this concept for a nice Halloween photo and let my mom do the props, because making all those delicious treats on my own, would have been pure torture.
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character: Flandre Scarlet / Touhou Project
owner: edhutschek
taken with: Sony Alpha 7R II / 55mm f1.8 lens
"indoor setup"
Here's a simple setup shot for a family portrait shoot I did today at a community hall.
There's a Canon 580ex lighting the backdrop and a 430ex with a white umbrella for the fill light. I didn't think there would be enough light at first but they all came out pretty sweet. Will post some photos from the session soon.
Here is a setup that I am going to use for tomorrows newborn. Can't wait to try it out. Not sure what I will be doing with the furr in the box... Excuse the lighting it was at night with other lights on. :)
My typical setup for astro imaging on my laptop in the observatory, via UltraVNC viewer indoors on my main PC. Screen capture from my 24" monitor.
Another screen not shown, is the one with DeepSkyStacker Live running (essential for the FWHM, Score and dx/dy graphs).
I have a three screen setup on my study PC.
Keep it simple ;-)
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Setup Shot for 022/365 Tommy Track Star
Strobist Info: Canon 430EXII camera left and directly in front of subject about 3 feet high fired into shoot through umbrella about 3 feet away from subject, Canon 430EXII camera left and on back side of subject about 8 feet high fired bare/no diffuser, Canon 430EXII camera right and directly to the side of subject about 4 feet high fired into reflective black back umbrella about 6 feet away from subject . Flashes were triggered with Interfit Strobies.
Strobist-setup:
- 580 EXII @ 1/4 24mm into Apollo Westcott Softbox above cam
- 430 EXI @ 1/8 24mm through white umbrella cam left
- 430 EXI @ 1/8 24mm through white umbrella cam right
- EOS 5D MKII @ 1/160 ISO 500
- EF 50 1.4 @ f/8.0
- triggered with Yongnuo RF-602
Setup shot from above and behing camera. Key light is a Bowens 1500 monobloc through a beauty dish with a grid on, with 2 bowens 500's through strips back left and right, and a bowens 750 on a gantry above and behind Chiara to light the background. Lots of black polyboards in tight around Chiara to limit the spill of light.
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This is the setup for these shots (one, two, three. I only have two SB-600's so I had to use one for the background and just one for lighting the subject. So I went with the clam shell technique (first time I tried this). Originally I was going to have her hold the reflector for fill but she wanted to do some poses that would put her hands in the shot. So I used my high-tech reflector holder (chair and afghans) to do the best I could. My background light is to the left of the bench (where Melanie was seated) and was flagged to help keep direct light off the subject but as you can see doesn't have much coverage. Because of that I had to be very careful about how much of the background was in the shot or the light fall-off was really noticeable. I really need one more light for that and probably umbrellas for both to help spread the light more evenly across. It was a learning experience. Black background is easy but white is very tough.
3x2 project.
That is, three targets for two astrophotographers (or self-styled so), myself and Alessandro Bucci.
Second target of the joint project, in fact the main subject, what pushed us to "join forces" for this project was the reflection nebula M78, in Orion. Beautiful subject, yet difficult if not taken from sufficiently dark skies, which requires a lot of care even in the processing phase. It took me about a week of attempts and "pauses for reflection" before reaching the result below, which seems to me quite satisfactory overall.
Unfortunately we were unable to dedicate the two entire evenings to shooting, due to the atmospheric problems I mentioned in the previous post, but 13 hours of shooting still proved to be enough to finally obtain a good photo on this target which I had never shot in optimal conditions.
Hope you like it as well!
Techinical data:
159x300s T-20°/-10° Gain 100 (13h25m Total Integration Time)
Bortle 3 rural sky, Pietralunga, PG (Italy)
Equipment:
Skywatcher Newton 254/1200 @F4.5 1140mm
Tecnosky 0.95x Coma Corrector
Omegon veTEC571C Color
ZWO OAG + ASI290MM Mini
Ioptron CEM70
Skywatcher Newton 254/1200
Skywatcher Coma Corrector 1x
Toupteck 571c Color
ZWO OAG + ASI224MC
Skywatcher Eq6-R
Software:
N.I.N.A., PHD2
Processing(Francesco Radici):
Pixinsight, Photoshop
Progetto 3x2.
Ovvero, tre target x due astrofotografi (o sedicenti tali), il sottoscritto ed Alessandro Bucci.
Secondo obiettivo del progetto congiunto, nonché il soggetto principale, quello che ci ha spinto ad "unire le forze" per questo progetto era la nebulosa a riflessione M78, nella costellazione di Orione. Soggetto bellissimo, quanto ostico se non ripreso da cieli sufficientemente bui, che richiede molte accortezze anche in fase di elaborazione. Ho impiegato circa una settimana tra tentativi e "pause di riflessione" prima di giungere al risultato qui sotto, che mi sembra abbastanza soddisfacente, nel complesso.
Purtroppo non siamo riusciti a dedicare le due intere serate alle riprese, per i problemi atmosferici di cui accennavo nel precedente post, ma 13 ore di riprese si sono rivelate comunque abbastanza per ottenere finalmente una buona foto su questo target che non avevo mai ripreso in condizioni degne.
Spero piaccia anche a voi!
Dati di ripresa:
159x300s T-20°/-10° Gain 100 (13h25m Total Integration Time)
Cielo rurale Bortle 3 Località Pietralunga (PG)
Questi i due setup:
Skywatcher Newton 254/1200 @F4.5 1140mm
Tecnosky 0.95x Coma Corrector
Omegon veTEC571C Color
ZWO OAG + ASI290MM Mini
Ioptron CEM70
Skywatcher Newton 254/1200
Skywatcher Coma Corrector 1x
Toupteck 571c Color
ZWO OAG + ASI224MC
Skywatcher Eq6-R
Software di ripresa:
N.I.N.A., PHD2
Elaborazione (Francesco Radici):
Pixinsight, Photoshop
Strobist info: Setup for Candle Smoke image. SB-800 through DIY 10" snoot and DIY ink-jet-printedblue gel to image left and behind the candle, illuminating just the smoke and top of the candle. SB-800 through second snoot just to the right of the frame.
We have finally reached Brickvention 2019, display is now complete and have settled in for the next few days.
Hope to have 'Beyond The Brick' call past, as they are giving a talk.
Official photos to be uploaded across the next week.
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Took some new promo pictures for my own band featuring our new bassist, Dan.
Set up shot.