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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/
Paris, France, 2017 - Lumix FX35
Maybe my only digital shot with a small PS camera but with analog eyes; hard also to stand setup as always.
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.
This is my mother-in-laws vintage, silver hand mirror. I've always liked the aesthetics of it so I'm glad I finally shot it.
Einstein 640 w/ 10" x 36" Stripbox left
Einstein 640 w/ 10" x 36" Stripbox right
Triggered w/ CyberSync
The setup shots had an additional Einstein 640 pointed at the ceiling to add some fill light. The mirror was raised using empty 120mm film rolls.
Overview of the portable unit for flying insects photography, left side.
How to take insects in flight see:
Setup for this photograph (opens new Flickr window).
Simple, ain't it? ;-)
Bowens GM500 monolight in small softbox, fired by I.R. trigger.
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 :)
Update 3 july 2014:
For the current version see: www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/12537231674
There is also an 3D version inuse see: www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/6760414583
Setup for insects in flight. This setup take pictures of insects inflight. An optical extra lens system is added to look for insects in focus. Only 40 usec are needed to check if there are objects in focus.
This unit works on reflected laserlight. No more leaserbeams are needed, no more long arms to put the receivers on the top of the system. The full distance is now free between camera and insects. The unit works in full dark or even in full bright sun. Sensivity can by adjusted by mean of a simple potmeter. To work in full dark 2 to 4 extra high power leds are added. 2 of this high power leds are UV leds at 405nm. This UV light attrack some insects inflight.
Today the first real live tests are done. This works realy nice. At this time no insects are available considering the winter periode here. Focus distance can by adjusted to every value. The focus range of the detector is very narrow. 1 to 2 mm at a distance of 700 mm form the camera. Objects of 2 mm diameter can by easily detected. Detector works also on full black insects. 4 lasers are used, 2 IR 5 mw lasers at 850 nm and 2 x 10 mw green lasers. The green lasers are only for visual position to the insects.
All electronics are mounted into the frame. One CPLD board is used and 2 boards with an AVR controller. The information from the optical system are fast transmitted from the AVR controller to the CPLD board. An 2x16 character LCD display give the status from the system. value of the batterys, value of the high voltage for the electro magnet at 150V, sensivity of the focus detector, width of the digital filter used, value of the environment light, value of the laser return light and expired time between start camera and moment of the picture.
Setup diagram for this shot of Spencer.
Lighting was two Profoto Acute2 heads opposing each other set to the same intensity - exposure was made by just the modeling lights.
Two black flags were used to keep the lightings from flaring on the lens and a third was positioned as a background.
Shooting a graphics card. One flash, card on brown-colored acrylic glass, underneath the glass: dark cloth (black velvet).
That's it. Btw.: Yes, I was too lazy to clone out the spacer ...
5-min-Photoshop fix: darkening the background (paint black color all around the card and the reflection), sharpening.
Result: www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/6006531116/in/photostream/
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 backlighting a spoon of sugar, using a combination of a DIY light table and difusser panel.
Hopefully not too blown out to be able to see the curved line of the Fax paper used as the backdrop and prop the spoon up at an angle. This is held in place with a couple of clothes pegs, very useful to have around the place.
What wont be obvious here, is that 2 flashes are being used. Both are Neewer SF-01 mini slave flashes (very cheap and compact). The one on view is mounted on a Blazzeo SLT-4 radio trigger and mini tripod. The second is masked by the sides of the difussion panel and is mounted on a small flash stand and pointing into the bottom of the light table. This one uses it's optical sensor to trigger from the output of the radio triggered flash. Very versatile these little flashes :)
The black card at the sides (closest side removed for this shot) and the small piece to the front are to give a dark reflection to the sides of the highly reflective spoon.
Also not shown, is a white reflector which was hand held above to stop reflection of the ceiling and room lights above and bounce some light back onto the subject.
If I had a large softbox, I would have used that above instead. Something to add to my shopping list , or maybe I should make one:)
Might sound complicated, but it's not really.
My Office setup updated :
Desktop HP Z400:
Xeon w3503 2.4Ghz
8 GB DDR3
3 TB HD
ATI Radeon HD 4800 512 MB
Mouse Razer Mamba Wireless
Mousepad Razer Kabuto
Laptop Alienware M15x
Intel Core i7 Q820 1.73Ghz
8 GB DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 1024 MB DDR3
Mouse Razer Orochi Bluetooth
Dual Dell 2407WFP UltraSharp 24-inch LCD display
setup shot for the next photo in my stream
sb28 on ground left, sb24 into shootthrough umbrella on funbox
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
This is my setup, my 6 month old Macbook, The desk is very old, took about a month to get everything on it. The speakers are attached to my Airport Express to the left of the desk.
Macro Setup
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My macro setup as of now:
Canon EOS 40D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro
Kenko 1.4 Teleplus Pro 300 DG 1.4x Teleconverter
Kenko Extension Tube set (12mm + 20mm + 36mm)
Tripod collar
Manfrotto 323 RC2 Quick Release
Manfrotto 454 Micropositioning Plate (macro rail)
Manfrotto 410 Junior Geared Head
Manfrotto 190XProB
Not in the photo: Timer Remote Controller
I've noticed that using the tripod collar makes a lot of difference in stability when using the extension tubes. Without it, the lens becomes a little bit wobbly and unstable, especially when the full set of extension tubes and extender are being used. The tripod collar I'm using is NOT the Canon one as I found it just too expensive.
Strobist information:
Rim lighting with two D-Lite 4 It with Portalite 66x66cm soft boxes.