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Simple setup for the Unit 3.1 exercise in Strobist's Lighting102
Montaje sencillo para el ejercicio de la unidad 3.1 del Lighting102
Trip Jennings shoot for Canoe and Kayak Magazine.
(Linh, who was along for the shoot, grabbed a synched setup shot with my Canon P&S.)
Lighting setup diagram for photo shoot with my son as the model that did not want to stand still.
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Lighting info
With kids that just learned how to walk it is nearly impossible to ask them to stay in one place, so I did a setup that would be very forgiving and focused on geting at least one shot when he was in the right direction and on the background paper.
The main light comes from a Profoto Compact on a boom stand high up (at least for him) with only a Softlight Reflector on (beautydish). No grids this time.
The light casting the long shadow in front of him comes from another Profoto Compact with a Magnum. The fill from below is thanks to the white background paper.
Some postprocessing in Photoshop to remove dirt and wrinkles from the paper and even out the light a bit, nothing more.
/ BLOG
I thought I would reveal all of my “secrets” and show my setup for this photo. And yes, the camera lens got a little bit wet! I have limited energy, so I am all for making things as quick as easy as possible. I used an aluminum cookie sheet for the gray background, and placed a waterproof cobblestone base from Calico Critters on top of another cookie sheet that I used to span the sink. Grouchy did NOT enjoy this photo shoot! :-)
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.
Days of Zeiss: www.daysofzeiss.com
Setup Info:
Savage Port A Stand backdrop system
White fuzzy sheet backdrop (purchased from Ross)
Bean Bag (purchased from Target)
Bare Nikon SB900 zoomed out and 2/3 stop higher than key light to light background
Nikon SB900 modified in Westcott 28" softbox 45 degree camera right
All fired by Pocket Wizards
It's true. This was a bit of a setup. I brought Tessa in to lie against Sole and neither one of them was in a hurry to get away. If fact, they are still more or less this after 30 minutes.
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
This is my Palermo office desk setup (you can find more details about my office setup HERE). A Logitech V200 cordless mouse and M$ Natural Ergonomic Keyboard are tucked away on a sliding keyboard shelf. The monitor is a Samsung 173P mounted to an Ergotron Neo-Flex LCD arm which swings forward approximately 15" when in use and frees up the entire desk area underneath it.
All cables are hidden from view using pegboard and adhesive backed nylon mounting bases as shown in this photo and this photo.
This is actually how my desk looks after clearing all items except for the things I use on a regular basis. There are two shelves in the room which store books, notepads, and other office supplies that are used once in a while.
The photo is for my Declutter The Mess Under Your Desk! blog post.
SETUP SHOT for www.flickr.com/photos/garrettcoyte/4704971027/
i would've posted a better-looking link, but I wasn't aware that flickr added the "nofollow' tag :/
This is the setup I've used for most of my shots. The main idea has been copyed from John Hallmén, who is a great source of inspiration. A lot of macro shooters use similar setups and it works really well.
From the top:
The OM-D with the 60mm macro and a cable release.
Manfrotto quick release adapter 323
Manfrotto 410 Junior geared head.
Newport 430 linear stage with a Starret micrometer with a travel of 25mm.
Manfrotto quick realese adapter 577
Berlebach Mini-tripod with leveling head.
The holder for the objets consists of:
A so called "Third hand", normally used for soldering jobs. I have cut a thread in the bottom.
Manfrotto 482 ball head.
Novoflex Minipod.
Not many people, to my knowledge anyway, uses the OM-D for this kind of macro shooting.
It seems that most of the masters like John and Nikola Rahmé, uses the Canon 5D mkll/MP-E 65 combo, but I really like this camera (and I don't have a Canon) and I think it does a decent job.
Photo taken by my son Victor with his Canon EOS 600D and a Tamron SP 35-80mm f2.8-3.8
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 ;-)
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
Love this crowded shot!
More setup and testing for the Yellow shot.lots of cool versions where I lined up Callum’s head with the background
Mac Setup - 19/11/2010
...And now for something completely different.
The 24" iMac has gone, replaced with a 13" MacBook Pro (2010 model) which I got in near-new condition quite cheaply. I plan to hang onto it until the 13" MBPs get a significant upgrade (display resolution, i3 or i5 processors, etc), or I decide I need more power from a 15" MBP.
I'm also using a BenQ G2420HD external display, which I will keep until I can decide on which of the Dell IPS displays I would like. I connect the MacBook Pro to the G2420HD while its at the desk, as well as the Xbox 360 and PC for gaming.
Three separate devices connected to a single display on a single desk. Pretty good for space saving, especially considering I used to have all this stuff on two separate desks.
The Zhaolu D2.5 DAC + headphone amp is still there (on the first overhead shelf, see next image) connected via optical from the MBP, as well as the Audio-Technica AD700 headphones and Audioengine 2 speakers. I'm really happy with this full-featured yet compact and portable setup. I'm not so happy about the cable spaghetti beneath my desk, though. :)
It ain't pretty, and publisher I am not, but the image does show the basic setup of what was going on.
I might add that none of the flashes were attached to my camera, what I did was set a 4 sec shutter speed and let the flash light the shot by activating it manually (press the red test button on the 580 flash). The second flash at the right would fire simultaneously because it was set to go off as a slave, meaning it would fire when it saw any flash at all.
It's also worth mentioning that I turned off the room lights so I didn't contaminate the shot with the orange tungsten color they give off, I set camera white balance to 'flash'. A light in the hallway behind me was far enough away not to matter, and it provided enough light for me to work things.
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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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.