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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.
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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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.
Typical setup I use for flower bits shots. The glass tablemats make it easy to slide the camera forward in small increments for taking focus stack sequences
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.
Current MPE-65 setup. Canon 5dMk2 and MPE-65 lens. Yongnuo YN24Ex flash with modified set up using two gorillapod arms fixed to the MPE-65 tripod bracket. DIY diffusers on flash head. 1 layer 1stop silk and 1 lay .5 stop diffuser gel separated by about 1cm
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.
I'm experimenting with variation in lighting for my figure study stuff as the setup I usually used gave results I really liked, but induced a ton of flare. This is the basic lighting setup I used for the last batch of figure study work. I tweak it according to each pose and add a light or two with grids or on-axis fill where needed, but this shot should give you a good starting point. Its a little more flare-manageable compared to what I used to do, but does not result in quite the same look compared to the older basic setup:
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Oh, well. I'll keep tweaking.
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 snowflake photos.
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Nikon D2H + Micro-Nikkor 55mm/2.8 + bellows unit + extension rings
Setup shot for this photo.
Stand as the Improvised tripod, used at max height.
I screw Manfrotto Stud into camera's tripod socket, then put this to Photoflex Swivel Mount, and put this to a usual stand.
Camera was directed top-down, and triggered by cheap ebay radiotrigger by brand Phottix. Works flawless.
You can see SB-800 and SB-80DX. SB-800 was triggered by SU-800, and powered up with Battery block SD-8a, so even 1/2 power is not a problem, and flashes was recycled quickly.
SB-80DX was triggered optically by another flashes, not by SU-800. Its tricky, but it works, if SB-80DX did NOT see IR signal from SU-800.
And you can see nearby my lovely Lowepro Vertex 300 AW (it can hold all my flashes, camera body, up to 6 lenses, and more room for funny things), and Hakuba Tripod Bag working as counterweight, which holds up to 3-4 stands, umbrellas, spring clamps, battery blocks, etc etc etc - really great bag, and very unexpensive.
Overview of the portable unit for flying insects photography, left side.
How to take insects in flight see:
This is the setup for the Novelty hair tie shot here :
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Lighting from 2 x Neewer SF-1 Mini Slave flashes (Also sold as Godox CF-18), mounted on radio triggers and mini tripods. These are shot through some homemade diffusion screens.
The diffusion screens are very simple constuction. The main bodies are cardboard trays that tins of food are supplied to grocery stores in. Into the base of these a window is cut out, just a bit smaller than an A4 sheet of paper.
Over this opening I tape on see-thru plastic document wallets, the type intended for ring binders, leaving the top open to slide in sheets of paper.
A simpler version could be made by simply taping a sheet of white or tracing paper over the opening, but by using the document wallet, it is possible to swap around to give different light levels, making them more versatile. It also helps prevent the paper yellowing with age.
For ths shot I used plain white paper borrowed from my printer, which reduces the light a little, but gives a soft even light.
Setup for this photograph (opens new Flickr window).
Simple, ain't it? ;-)
Bowens GM500 monolight in small softbox, fired by I.R. trigger.
Strobist-setup:
- 580 EXII @ 1/4 24mm into 28" Apollo Westcott Softbox above cam
- 430 EXII @ 1/8 24mm through umbrella cam left
- 430 EXII @ 1/8 24mm through umbrella cam right
- Yongnuo YN 460II @ 1/16 cam right
- EOS 5D MKII @ 1/160 ISO 600
- EF 50 1.4 @ f/7.1
- triggered with Yongnuo RF-602
From Valaisija spring meetup 2012 . This setup was modified in some point to use large softbox instead of beauty dish. There might have been also reflector model right in some photos.
Here is my setup that many of you were asking for!
I would suggest to everyone that it is NOT a good idea to have your drop setup in any room with carpet. I was able to get my whole setup cleaned and all the nasty water into a gallon pitcher. But that gallon pitcher never made it out of my room. Now it rests as a BIG green splotch on my carpet. Lovely
I spent many hours trying different setups. Most of my drop pictures i have uploaded recently have been in different setups i had. This is my final setup that suited me well!
Result: