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Now I can share a setup shot since i've tried it out and seen that it works very well. I haven't messed with colors or the lighting much yet on my photos, just been getting comfortable with using the electronics. I will say the stopshot is a joy to use over doing these manually like I did before. I think the next time I shoot it will be time to try out some ideas I have. I do have a shoot that I might upload later, but it is just a test just. thanks for looking.
BTW the broom hanging on the wall in the back is not part of the setup. ;-)
Estoy estrenando equipo.
AdquirÃ:
Flash vivitar 285.
Radio Trigger DRT-2G
Flash vivitar 285 con sombrilla blanca montados en trÃpode. Disparo por medio de radio trigger. Flash vivitar 60M detrás de la modelo disparado por fotocelda. Cámara canon 300D con lente 90-300.
Retoque con filtro kodak en photoshop.
Messing around with more Pringles tubes in an attempt to get the most light from a pair of 20W CFL lamps.
The Pringles reflectors are mounted on a pair of standard table lamps, replacing the normal shades.
Rather than just taking a window out of the tubes, a kinda H shaped cut was made around the tube and the sides opened out to give additional reflectors. This should show what I mean better than trying to describe it :
www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4668956897
This does increase the efficiency of these bulbs considerably if you want directional light from them. It will also work with he spiral type of CFL's which are more common in some places.
The lamps are on a level with the subject here, most of the light being directed at the orange card background, but with some of the reflected light from the opened wings illuminating the subject. Oh the object is a frosted glass top from a decanter placed on a sheet of black painted acrylic and can be seen in the shot below.
Ignore the water around the base in the setup shot, more work is needed on that before I will post any shots with it.
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Light setup for the previous photo.
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Strobist Info:
B1600 Left of subject (high)
Shot through 47" Octobox @ 1/16th Power
Triggered via Cybersyncs
Powered w/ Vagabond II
22" White Beauty Dish on Head
Nikon D300 | Nikkor 10.5mm fishey Æ’/2.8
My new office setup, including my MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz 2 GB, LaCie external HD 250 GB, Griffin Elevator, Apple wired keyboard and Apple wireless Mighty Mouse.
Lighting setup for "Head Of Sekhmet On An Aegis"
Equipment used:
-Nikon D80
---shot tethered to Powerbook G4 and Adobe Lightroom
-Nikon AF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens
-Manfrotto tripod with basic head
-Sekonic L-358 lightmeter
-Speedotron 2403B Powerpack
---triggered by on-camera flash directed into optical slave attached to PC-to-household cord
-Speedotron 102 Light Unit (strobe)
---with diffusing panel (3-4 sheets)
---mounted to DIY boom-stand (vice-grip light-stand clamped to pan-arm of a large video tripod)
-Speedotron 102 Light Unit (strobe)
---with small DIY diffusing dish (hot light snoot with small lamp reflector dish wrapped in diffusing cloth, held together with clips)
---mounted to Manfrotto Articulated Arm and Super Clamp
-DIY macro plexi stand (4x5 chrome display holder held by clips on an adjustable arm)
-curved sheet of seamless neutral-gray paper (movable, allows control of seamless background gradient without noticeable paper fibers)
-Qpcard 201 color-correction card (cropped out of final image)
Setup and lighting details for the photo below.
If I were able to draw I probably wouldn't be taking photographs. :-)
Learn how to light at Strobist
Here's the setup for my levitation shot and my jump kick shot.
2 Nikon SB-600s at 1/2 power with Honl Speed Gobos blasting the wall.
Vivitar 285HV at 1/4 power in a shoot-through umbrella.
Red laundry hamper is approximately where I stood/jumped.
Tripod is where the camera was.
I think I'll be using this room as the studio from now on. Lots of space is nice. :)
More on my blog.
This is the setup I used to create "Watching in the Dark".
Camera mounted on tripod and fired remotely. Canon 5D mark III with 70-200 at 135mm. Manual focus and manual settings: ISO100, f/13, 1/250.
Two Canon EX-580 flash guns triggered with PocketWizards. One light to the left with grid and small diffuser, manual settings +2 power. The right light also with a grid and manual settings, -3 power.
The camera was pre-focused. I shut off the lights in the room and had the flashes angled so that they wouldn´t light the background.
The left light was the main light and elevated to create the shadow under the brim of the hat. The right light was used as a soft fill to light the eyes under the brim.
Post-processing in Lightroom CC. Work mostly consisted of cropping, dodging and burning. I also added the facial camouflage with colored brushes.
From top to bottom:
Audio-Technica AT-LP60 Vinyl player
Sansui AU-G77XII Integrated Amplifier
Technics 5 Disc CD Player SL-PD867
Toshiba CD Player XR-9057
Sansui Quartz Synthesizer Stereo Receiver S-X700
Onkyo Cassette Tape Deck TA-RW 144
Yamaha Graphic Equalizer EQ-70
Kenwood Double Cassette Deck KX-W6020
KLH-AV 5001 Speakers.
IBM ThinkPad Laptop on the left speaker, connected as an additional source, to playback my MP3 files. (using AMP2 app)
UPDATE: Check out my new work setup.
My new computer setup:
1 DELL Inspiron 1100 laptop
- 2.2 GHZ
- 1GB RAM
- 80GB 7200RPM HD
1 DELL Inspiron tower
- 2.33GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
- 3GB 800MHZ DDR2 RAM
- 500GB 7200RPM HD
- 512MB graphics card w/ dual DVI
- DELL 22" widescreen LCD
- SAMSUNG SyncMaster 2220wm 22" LCD widescreen monitor
- Microsoft Wireless Desktop 6000
1 HP Pavilion (local webserver)
- 650MHZ
- 512MB RAM
- 40GB 5000RPM HD
Other stuff on the desk:
- Motorola Q
- Jabra JX10
- 3g 15GB iPod
- 4g 30GB iPod Photo
- Canon IXY Digital Li4
- HP Deskjet 932c (7+ years old)
- Boston Acoustics Speakers
- Lamp
- Coffee
Setup shot for 190/365 Big League Slugger.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, Æ’/10.0, 1/250s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
-2 Canon 430EXIIs inside 40" Westcott Softbox camera left, 5 feet high and 3 feet from subject, both flashes at 1/1 power and 24mm zoom
-White bounce fill reflector camera right 3 feet from subject
-Sun above and behind subject and slightly to camera right
-Flashes triggered using interfit strobies triggers
This is how I cram 2 speedlites in my softbox...
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Not the best setup shot, as pulling back allowed a bit too much glare on the lens, but hopefully enough can be seen.
The lens (mug) was placed on a glass shelf that has the underside painted black. Approx 6inches/150mm bahind the rear edge of the shelf is a red card backdrop.
The background is lit by a single 11W spiral CFL mounted in a Pringle tube snoot lined with a sheet of white printer paper.
On the shelf itself a diffusion screen with another sheet of white printer paper attached, behind which is another 11W spiral CFL mounted in a reflector made from a Pringles tube.
On the opposite side and not very well shown due to the angle, is a sheet of white card to bounce a bit of light back onto the shadow side of the subject.
The result can be seen below.
I've no idea why this is so grainy and grotty, but it still does the job.
It's the setup shot for the others in the series, the notes should explain all the technical whatnot.
Blog: www.photosmudger.com/
setup i did with a photo shoot.. of myself. its my first time ever using external flash to light a subject.
keep an eye out for the pictures!
3200 iso here
AB400 w/ umbrella
Change to the lighting from that used in my previous attempt at this.
Vivitar 2800 with red filter, held to the top of the background board by a spring clamp with a coldshoe fitted to it. In addition a small flag made of card held on the head of the flash with a rubber band, to prevent light hitting the water directly.
Front right, Yongnuo YN460 with a homemade snoot and grid , with the power dialled right down to 1/64.
Not seen in the pic, on the far left, a green wine bottle, which is reflecting a small highlight onto the candle holder. This was a happy accident, well I like it, others might not :)
LOL, just realised when viewed as a thumbnail, this looks a bit like a darkroom, if anybody remembers what they looked like :)
The room at the time was fairly well lit, not anything like as dark as it looks in the photo, which was exposed for the flash.
Result can be seen here :
Thanks to LearnMyShot for the back lighting ideas! They have an awesome tutorial which inspired this shot. Check it out: www.flickr.com/photos/learnmyshot/4318729569/