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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 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.
Just a piece of colored craft paper and some glasses to keep it in place.
I use a flash for almost all of my Lego photography outside of conventions. I point the flash backwards over my left shoulder, where it bounces off the white kitchen ceiling and provides soft enough lighting for my purposes.
Dimidium
Gilroy, CA
Took some new promo pictures for my own band featuring our new bassist, Dan.
Set up shot.
This is my setup for taking my latest bokeh photos. All I am using is an Adorama Flashpoint 5500K Flourescent Light and some simple white Christmas lights. I am using the side of the speaker as a black surface to shoot the Nikon FE on. (This photo shows the Nikon FE with my Nikon 50mm f1.8 Series E lens which I decided not to use in my final shot.)
So I used one of my older Sony speaker that was laying around as a surface to shoot the Nikon FE on. It has a nice black finish which is just the slight bit reflective which you can see in the photo. This adds a little more depth to shot. I used only one light to illuminate the camera which is a fluorescent light with a shoot through umbrella to supply the shot with a very diffuse light. I used a single strand of white/yellow christmas lights for the bokeh. I placed the lights on some black background and then set them up on the ladder. I originally wanted to have the camera at a slightly more angled away from the camera to give the photo a little more depth but by using the f1.8 aperture the extremely shallow DoF left me with a undesirable shot.
Here is our new setup for Astrophotography. Ian's camera is attached to his Mizar 80mm telescope. and then All this is then attached to our Astro-tracker.
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.
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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Here's the setup for this shot. Details in the image. The only thing missing was a pair of scissors and my lovely assistant/wife/slightly used British chick....
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.
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.
Olive falling in a Martini cocktail.
Setup see setup shots:
www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/4425583508/
www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/4425579038/
Lessons learned:
- Darkfield illumination works really good with this type of shots,
- a prime lense yields sharper images,
- a low flash power on the speedlights yields sharper drops (thanks, David!),
- more light = more speedlites :-),
- ISO 200 seems to be a good compromise between low flash power and low noise...,
- the glass should be clean :-)
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.
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/
Macro setup using Sony NEX 5, Schneider Enlarger Lens (50mm f2.8 or 80mm f/4), reversed mounted via 43mm-52mm step-up ring and 52mm-Nikon reverse ring adapter, on modified Pentax bellows. NEX attached by a NEX-Nikon lens adapter and Nikon-Pentax adapter. NEX is attached to external Marshall monitor via HDMI for Live-View focusing, although the NEX screen is adequate. Here shown on homemade macro table top rig constructed with parts from a broken 4x5 Horseman large-format camera.
1 canon 430ex II below the bottle, shooting into the white background and using white bounce cards to light the front
this was a quick set up to show how to reflect light, I wish I would have spent more time now after looking at the shot! or at least got a better bottle!
See the shot here:
Setup shot for the cover of Poker Player, May 2009. Notes should explain everything.
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Setup shot for this photo - www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/11911316544/
Kitchen blowtorch and various aerosols. Don't try this at home unless your home is fireproof!
Overview of the portable unit for flying insects photography, left side.
How to take insects in flight see:
The setup is fairly simple :) it is a 30x30 softbox on a boom arm high tilted down with a reflector below (the Softbox is feathered so it doesn't produces racoon eyes but the center isn't hitting the face) behind a big softbox a bit tilted up as white background.
The main is 2/3 of a stop below from the background light :)
The theme is a bit of inspiration from Alphonse Mucha and spring with tropical colors :)