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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.
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
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 ;-)
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
Finally, my own food shot in the style of Cannelle&Vanille and IngwerVanille -- whom I both admire.
But---as you might have guessed-- there's a little difference ...
Both normally shoot with daylight, but my risotto is shot with a speedlite and only with a speelite (no ambient fill, without flash, the shot is black).
STROBIST
Simple: One speedlite (430 EX II), standing on the floor, balancing on its RF receiver (YN602), pointing to the wall, on 1/2 power (I think). Silver reflector on the other side. Trick is, that I shot that in the dormer of our bedroom --> white walls everywhere --> reflectors everywhere --> light everywhere.
RESULT
www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/7355517148/in/photostream
RECIPE
As simple as can be, but really tasty. Just cook your standard risotto (rice, onions, wine, bit of butter, bit of parmicano ...) and just before the end, add some saffron (as much as you can afford ;-).
LINKS TO CANELLE&VANILLE AND INGWER-VANILLE
- Telescópio Astrógrafo Ritchey Chretien 8" GSO com tubo de fibra de carbono
- Focalizador eletrônico Moonlite modelo CS
- Montagem equatorial computadorizada Orion Atlas EQ-G
- Câmera QHY Polemaster
- OFF Axis Guider Teleskope Service
- Câmera ZWO ASI120MM monocromática para guiagem
- Câmera Canon DSLR T1i modificada com filtro Astrodon
- Redutor focal Astro-Physics modelo CCDT67
...
Lighting/Setup Info
- SB600 at 24mm zoom and 1/8 power level, bare and bounced. Positioned camera-right about 4.5-feet from the subject. Flash was on a bedside table, angled slightly upward, and bounced into a corner. (Key Light)
- SB80DX at 14mm zoom and 1/128 power level with diffusion dome and a piece of shoji paper over the dome. Positioned camera-left inside the lamp in the background. (Background Light)
- Cybersyncs.
setup: sb800 (1/4 power) through white umbrella camera left. ISO 400, F5.6, 1.3sec. Long exposure was needed to show the sky & lake.
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.
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.
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
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.
Setup details:
Two flashes triggered via rf remote trigger. Two sheets of paper, one as diffusor, one as reflector. Mosaic-like glasses with a flower and a speedlite behind them for a nice bokeh background.
Lighting & Photography setup for food photos 10-19-2011
Here I used just one Alien Bee 800 strobe. Since I wanted to throw most of the light onto the fireplace in the background yet bleed some light to the side to illuminate the food I chose an umbrella. I aimed the umbrella towards the fireplace and leather sofa but angled it a bit so the amount of light that spilled on the food was the same exposure as that hitting the bricks. You can't feather light in this manner with a softbox.
Even though the light was an Alien Bee strobe I only used the 150 Watt Halogena modeling light bulb to illuminate the scene. This means I had to set the Nikon D3S white balance to "Incandescent" (around 3200*K). While that is not the same color balance as the fire, it is close enough. The other advantage of using the modeling light is that I could select any combination of f-stops and shutter speeds to get the image I wanted.
client: a world-wide corporation's point of sale division
location: one of their local restaurant clients, a neighborhood pub
Setup photo taken using my Android cell phone LG Optimus S.
Strobist: WL600 camera left in medium softbox, WL600 camera right in medium softbox, White Lightning WL1600 behind model camera left gridded for hair light. Triggered by pocketwizards.
More from this shoot coming soon.
She did her own makeup and hair and everything.
MM# 592682 Kris Addison (a good friend of mine, so be respectful)
a simple and cheap setup i did to take a picture of canon 30d with ef-s 10-22mm,
strobist:
to the right i used a canon 580ex II, shot through a DIY black cartboard box and white paper on front. to the left its just a white cartboard. and the camera is sitting one a black cartboard..
= see "canon" for final shot =
This is the setup for this photo with light-field lighting.
I added a hand-held SB-16 at full power, bounced off the ceiling for this setup shot.
About a month ago I got the Canon Speedlight 430EX for my Canon Powershot S5 IS. It isn't really designed for a smaller than DSLR camera, but other than for macros works great. Too bad I shoot mostly macros. So I cut a white paper bag and taped it to diffuse and deflect the flash down. That works pretty well though it would be better if it was easily removable. I tore it a bit last time I took it off. I am usually looking for small stuff, but if I find anything big and further away I want to shoot, I have to remove it quickly or get a very dark and grainy shot.
I didn't like the price, but now that I have it I am really glad I got it. The refresh rate is awesome; fresh batteries and you can flash as fast as the camera can shoot in continuous mode. That really helps out when using the Raynox at full magnification. I take at least three or four shots of almost everything to make sure I got the focus just right.
The flash diffuser isn't quite as good with the S5's Super Macro. The distance to the subject is much closer than with the Raynox macro adapter so the light comes pretty much straight down. Regular macro is fine though and coming straight down can give an interesting effect.
Before the external flash, I used the CCRRFD, a styrofoam bowl flash diffuser attached to the lens. It worked great, and I still recommend it, but it don't use it much anymore since the external flash is up so high.
Before that was the CFFD, a coffee filter flash diffuser based on the CCRRFD idea because I didn't have any styrofoam bowls. This one is still the most portable, but I haven't used it in a long time since the bowl does a slightly better job.
I haven't used the CCRRFD much either since I got the new flash, but it certainly wins for the smoothest shadows and ease of use. It weighs a ton less. And I feel a lot more comfortable shooting bees with the CCRRFD between me and the bee. But you can't beat the flash's refresh rate.
See my updated setup here.
This is a lighting setup for "137:365 - Tea time 2".
A tea pot full of freshly brewed tea was placed on a glass book shelf suspended above a black foam board.
A gray seamless paper is placed behind for the backdrop and it is illuminated with an SB-26 flash at 1/4 power through a grid spot. I also created a long snoot for it from Rosco cinefoil (black aluminum foil). Then I placed three thin strips of gels on the grid - yellow in the middle, red on one side and orange on the other.
Now that the background is taken care of, I placed three white foam board sheets, one above and two to the sides behind the tea pot. I put three flashes into each of them at low power (about 1/16 and 1/32 power) and used more cinefoil to control the light spill onto the background.
Setup for test shots of band members. Actual power settings were a bit different than what the notes say. Set up for www.flickr.com/photos/martinwilmsen/5549936240/
Notice the inversed orientation of the CCA. Due to the knobs of the 10 micron dovetailholder, I was forced into an alternative solution. A extra dovetail with spacers was added and the telescope was mounted inversed.
These birds sometimes are quick-strikers. Yet, when they assume a pose it can be a nice one. Photographed in Allen's (asparks 306) backyard setup.
My macro setup for the coffee bean pictures.
The main feature is the light diffuser, a milk jug. Under that I have various objects to raise the height of the subject by varying amounts. I need to stick the light meter in there beforehand to get a reading.
Lens is Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro (non Image Stabilization). The hood on it here. I have a Tamron 1.4x converter on it on this shot but didn't need it for the four beans. Not as sharp as lens by itself.
Stupid broken tripod is used. It's great but broken in three places and I can't afford another one. I have another broken tripod too.
Primary Canon flash at about 10 o'clock trying to point down. I found I needed to make this light source a little bigger/softer so I used the Lumniquest diffuser at the far left. Quantaray slave flash is at half power of the main straight across at 3 o'clock.