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Setup as of 1/19/09
24" iMac and 13" MacBook Pro
Full keyboard, and Magic Mouse
1 of 2 iPhones (his and hers)
Logitech Speakers
The fiddle yard is half stocked during Setup of the 00Fremo meeting, as the fast-running clock in the background still set to neutral postition witnesses.
heres the pvc pipe panel setup with the 2 125 watt strobes shooting thru it like a super large shoot thru umbrella! If I want to kill the spill Just put on all barndoors and then stand 2 more litestands with black felt fabric on both sides to kill spill and make a super softbox!
For such a small item, there are a lot of elements in the setup and a looks a bit of a mess, I hope this description and the notes on the photo will make some sense of it.
I will start with the base the subject is sat on. The black at the bottom is a couple of pieces of foam rubber approx 50mm/2 inches thick, just to raise the subject off my low coffee table and to bring it closer to the flash which is on a mini tripod (out of sight here). On top of the black foam, is a 12mm/1/2 inch thick sheet of expanded polystyrene, topped with a sheet of paper from my printer. The coin is then attached to the top of a clear push/map pin, the spike of which is pushed through the paper into the polystyrene. This allows the base to be moved around to get the positioning right under the camera lense.
The camera is mounted as close to vertical as possible on my cheap, or should that be bargain, Hama tripod with the central column almost fully extended. This allows it to be wound up and down to adjust the focus between lense and subject.
The camera lense is fitted with two close-up lenses fitted together, a +2 and +10 doptre to give +12.. Also worth noting is the collapseable rubber lense hood, which shields the lenses from the flash, no daisy hood here, they are rubbish for tabletop work, make nice plant pot holders though:)
Where was I, Oh yeah, opposite the camera is a tracing paper diffusion panel, partially hidden by the desk lamp used to illuminate the area for focussing. The flash, a Neewer SF-1 mini slave flash is sat behind the diffusion panel, mounted on a mini tripod and radio trigger.
To the left and right of the subject are white card reflectors to bounce light back onto the subject, a third which fitted between the stem of the tripod and the camera lense has been removed to take this shot.
I think that wraps it up, take no notice of the shutter release, it wasnt plugged in for this shot, it just seem to spend it's life hanging on my tripod :)
Results of the setup can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4702794672/
My setup. The only Machines that are usually not where they are in this shot are the MacBook, which is usually closed, and the DELL which moves with me constantly.
This is the setup for the previous photo.
White-balanced on the background so there isn't much of a reddish cast to the photos.
Welcome to my ghetto studio.
White posterboard supported by a genuine ikea chair - very comfortable I might add.
Week 10's lighting setup.
Gives you a rough idea of how much I would like to get outside and take some pictures...
Really getting tired at the lack of space.
Strobist Info:
Canon 430 EXII - 1/8 - Camera Left, Shoot through Umbrella
Nikon SB-900 - 1/32 - Camera Right, Shoot through Umbrella
Triggered by Poverty Wizards
Final Shot Here
Contact Sheet Here
Lighting Diagram Here
Becoming a familiar setup :)
Simple setup of 2 sheets of tracing paper seperated by about 2inches/50mm to give a good even spread of light. Behind this there are 3 x 20W CFL lamps shining directly onto the screen.
The bottle is placed on a polythene business card box to raise it above the sheet of glass which has white card under it. This is flanked either side by sheets of black card to bring out contrast.
Though it appears this was taken in the dark, it wasn't, the room was well illuminated at the time, the concentrated light and aperture/shutter speed keeping out extra light.
Simple setup this week but thought I'd document it anyway.
Camera was a Nikon 1 J5 fitted with a 30-110mm lens and a 10mm extension tube. Mounted on a geared head which was in turn mounted to the table top with a clamp.
Figure was freestanding on a lab jack to raise it to the height of the light and camera supports.
Light is a basic LED job from amazon on a travel tripod. Tried it was a grid but didn't have one the right aperture so went without. A piece of masking tape was placed part way down the LED face to reduce the amount of light shining on the shoulder so it wasn't too bright.
In Lightroom the image was cropped (you can see the original framing on the back of the camera) and the magenta fringing introduced by the tube was removed by desaturating that channel.
Setup shot for this finished shot. Behind the scenes video here.
Taken by Mr Richard Castle.
Notes should explain most things.
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Setup shot for Lighting102 assignment.
Strobist:
Cam R, Front- Metz 45CL-4 flash in The AJ Softy. Cam L, Up - Vivitar 283 with Cokebox Snoot, Cardboard grid gobo, and green gel. Cam L - small round mirror for specular highlight on back of squeezer. See setup pic.
Setup showing a DIY lightbox in use to backlight a leaf. More details on the simple construction of the box can be found here : www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/5066764683/
The top surface for this shot is a see through document wallet containing a single sheet of tracing paper. This is perfectly strong enough for a light object like a leaf. For anything heavier, a sheet of glass or clear acrylic on top of this is required.
Lighting is provided by a single Neewer SF-01 mini slave flash, fring through an opening at one end of the box. The inside of this box is white, so nothing further is required, though I have got a sheet of white paper in the bottom.
Mounted above to give a little bit of light to the top, is a Yongnuo YN460 with the power dialed right down to 1/64th to give a tiny bit of fill light.
The Neewer flash lighting the box is activated with a Blazzeo SLT-4 radio trigger, while the Yongnuo above uses its optical sensor.
Captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC lens.
Test Setup:
After running around the office looking for good lines to shoot and coming up short most of the time I came to the realization that the perfect test subject was right above my head the whole time :)
A Canon EOS 5D Mark II was used on a tripod sitting on a desk with the camera pointed perpendicular to the ceiling. Mirror lock-up was used and manual focus with LV 10X was used to achieve critical focus at center of frame. Distance from the camera to the ceiling was ~ 6 feet.
ISO 100, f/8, distortion-corrected in LR3, no other adjustments, exported to jpeg.
Distortion-corrected using this Adobe lens profile.
How I went about photographing The Reconstruction of Fort Oswald.
Because you can never have to much hype on a creation.
Setup image for the 2nd curtain sync speed comparison experiment: www.flickr.com/photos/gerard_maas/6226030554/in/photostream
I like it when other people post pictures of their setup for technical shots, so I thought I'd do the same. This is what it took to take this picture.
It still has some problems. For instance, my tripod isn't steady enough- apparently it can actually keep microscopic vibrations that show up at high magnification for several seconds. In fact, the floor of my house isn't steady enough- I was just about holding my breath when I pushed my cable release. I really need a flash. Or two. Also, it seems this lens has a bad habit of blowing dust onto my camera's sensor when it telescopes in. Now I need a camera with a self-cleaning sensor, too. Maybe next month.
What to do on a snowy day? Take pictures of waterdrops. Turned out to be a lot of fun!
This is the setup that I used to create the images in this set
Setup shot for Maisie
Strobist:
Ranger A Head, B port at 3.3, 70cm white maxisoft with silver deflector and sock above Maisie as key light.
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 2.0, 135 Midi Octa with both diffusers, below me as fill.
Ranger Quadra A Head, B port at 1.5, 130x50 strip with both diffusers, camera left
Ranger Quadra A Head, B port at 1.5, 130x50 strip with both diffuser, camera right
RX600, 3.5, 21cm reflector, rear camera left to light white background.
RX600, 3.5, 21cm reflector, rear camera right to light white background.
Triggered by Skyport Speed.
The rather makeshift setup. It's strange, when viewed from further back, the Yongnuo flash on the left, appears to be providing all the light, when it is really the little Neewer SF-01 just to the right of the subject. The homemade card snoot pointing down at the card below does look a bit strange, but it works well to give a controlled beam of light and doesnt require much masking from the black backdrop, which is about a yard/meter behind the subject.
Results can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4521421117/
A few more notes on the pic.
Setup shot for 158/365 Yankees Suck.
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, f/6.3, 1/200s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
-Canon 430EXII camera left and in front of subject, 1/2 Power, @24mm zoom, about 7 feet high, 3 feet away from subject inside 40 inch Wescott softbox.
-Canon 430EXII Camera right and behind subject, 1/1 Power @ 24mm zoom, about 7 feet high and 5 feet away from subject inside 24 inch Photoflex softbox.
-Flashes triggered with Interfit Strobies.
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I found a cool lighting diagram web app. I say I found it, I mean it is new to me. Anyways, here is the link…