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My hair was out of control before today. My sideburns were all over the place and the hair over my ears was driving me nuts. I figured I might as well take a before and after shot so I could document the moment.
The setup shot is here farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/3241668195_447ca2af5f_b.jpg
I had really long hair back in middle and high school. I was into skateboarding and I decided to let my bangs grow out. They went about 2 inches past my chin. I have a feeling I won't be letting my hair get that long ever again.
strobist - canon flash through a westcott 28x28 softbox right above the camera in front of me. The power was at 1/16 since I was shooting at 1.8
A cheap Ebay softbox 60cm x 60cm with a homemade adaptor to enable me to use one or two speedlights, also packs up nice and small for transportation
Results:
Strobist:
LimoStudio monolight with a red gel lighting the background
The background is wrinkled aluminium foil on poster board
LimoStudio monolight with a 24"x24" softbox lighting the spinning top from the left and behind it
To capture the motion, I turned on the modeling light on the flash that was lighting the top and I used a slow 1/4 second shutter speed
My first attempt at bright field lighting. When I do this over again, I'll do a better job of cleaning the glass top. Too many spots for my comfort.
Fun to try though.
Strobist info: Sunpak 433D in DIY softbox directly into camera. The white background is the face of the softbox.
Joining of my hobbies: Vortex Pok3r, TWSBI 580 and Pilot Vanishing Point photographed using my DSLR.
Lens & softbox: www.watchdesigner.de/
I put this together today using foamcore, fabric, and black duct tape. Also used a bit of hardware from Lowes to hold it onto the lightstand.
Setup shot for Jane and Bath Bubbles and Jane. Shot in my master bathroom with the new Westcott Apollo Speedlight softbox.
Strobist info: Sunpack 383 on 1/4 power into 28" softbox, fired with Gadget Infinity triggers.
Model: Ali Darling, Carly Naughton, Jessica Moormann
Make Up Artist: Tiffany Phillips
Stylist: Tiffany Phillips
Assistant: Lewis Montague
Location: Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Strobist Info (this ordering may or may not have changed throughout the shoot):
- 1 x Bowens Gemini Esprit 500WS – shot through softbox camera left
- 1 x Bowens Gemini Esprit 500WS – shot through softbox camera right
- 1 x Bowens Gemini Esprit 500WS – shot through beauty dish camera right
- 2 x Bowens Travelpacks – powering 2 x 500WS strobes each
- Canon 5D Mark II w/ BG-E6
- 50mm f/1.4, 35mm f/2.0
- Elinchrom Skyport Universal Triggers
I Recently had the chance to do another fixie or fixed gear bike shoot, with a good friend whom I’ve been promising to shoot since well, what seems like forever, we had bad weather and things got shuffled around a little but these are the results…
Cheers to Eric and the guys at Gear Brisbane for hooking us up with yet again some amazing bikes, we didn’t get a scratch on em, I promise. But Eric is a great guy always keen to help out and work on some cool new interesting projects no matter what they involve be it a few bikes or well (I’ll say the rest once I’ve finished working on the projects). You should go into the store if you are close to the Brisbane CBD, or visiting from out of town, its an amazing store and I guarantee you wont find another store like it anywhere in the world and for so many reasons…
So pop into shop @ 3A Browning Street, West End, QLD, 4101, or check out the online store and blog
Thanks to all the girls for putting up with me and the summer heat and lack of fresh air throughout the shoot due to the location, I’m sorry the weather turned and we couldn’t be out in the open. Thanks to Lewis for the million stupid questions you asked that probably extended the shoot to another half an hour, and for dabbing the sweat off of everyone when needed, you are definitely the weirdest most interesting assistant I have ever had on a shoot buddy…
So here are a few shots from the days shoot enjoy while I sort through everything and get it up on my THE BAKE HOUSE @ WORDPRESS and here on the blog, there are many more shoots to edit and upload so keep your eyes peeled enjoy…
Just picked up myself a 24" foldable Softbox and lightstand for under $150.
Looking forward to working with it!
each photo tells a story
look at the ones in comments.
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btw, my friends eyes aren't edited
We spent some of the first afternoon in Paso Robles doing quick, one- or two-light portraits of some of the students in our lecture room.
Tomorrow we will get a little fancier and then kick them out into the street to start shooting on their own.
(Key light is a LumiQuest SB-III.)
Pentax K-5 • 80 ISO • Soligor C/D Wide-Auto 20mm f:2.8
Kenko Pz-AF UniPlus Tube 25
Metz Flash 48 AF-1 Digital with softbox
Use your iPad as a professional light source. "SoftBox Pro for iPad" is available on the App Store.
Find out more on EggerrStudio.com
special thanks: www.mailiyasi.com/
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Basado en un post de ALTFoto este fin de semana me di a la tarea de armar un Softbox con una hielera de Oxxo.
This is a collapsible DIY softbox I made. It folds on to 40"x24", can hold one or two flashes, and mounts horizontally and vertically. The E and C pieces of foam core are to prevent spill out the back of the flash. For more, check my blog: eurodiego.blogspot.com/2010/05/diy-collapsible-softbox.html
new stobes came in the mail today. woo. this is the first shot with them. softbox directly behind me w/ shoot through umbrella to the side.
Strobist info
5D 24-70mm
Malaysian flash thru softbox camera right
triggered by PW's
We went a shot for about 30 mins and my flash would only fire about 1 out 5 times i clicked the shutter open. so i missed alot of great shots because of that. but, whatev.
I used coraplast to make the box part. basically I measured across the base of my flash and then used a series of triangles to get the right shape. Once I had the template I cut all bits out.
The coraplast plastic is black but I lined the inside with white paper and the front is white cotton material. It's all held together with either glue or masking tape :)
Other than that, I can't give much more instruction...but there are plenty of DIY softbox plans and ideas via google.
As I finalize the design of my 28" soft box design, I made a silver version to try to decrease light loss over the white version I built first.
I fired off a few test shots, but was surprised by some of the results I got.
The images from the white box were consistently a little brighter than those from the silver. All settings and conditions were the same. The light distribution on the front of the silver version what not as good as the white - that didn't really surprise me. The slightly cooler color of the silver box was expected.
Reflector panels with the same silver surface are clearly brighter than the white foam core side, but that isn't helping the soft box put out more light. Don't know why.
Last one of this series of shots (I promise).
Thanks to Mr McNally for the deets.
www.youtube.com/joemcnallyphoto#p/u/0/59wjbFrc0JU
An idle mind, is the devils workshop……..or something like that. I guess this shot came from being so damn cold outside, as winter has hit us with a vengeance so early in the season.
I decided to get out one of my lights, and have a play.
Cameron (future son in-law) was passing through the room, so I grabbed him and sat him down for a second or two for a photo. Since I’d just done a SP, the light and chair were in position already.
Light was just one Elinchrom Quadra S head in a 20inch Portalite SB, @ 2o’clock around from the face a little above head height, and pointing downward slightly @ just under one meter distance (totally doable with one speedlite).
Fired via Skyport, metered w/Sekonic L308S.
The two headshots were layered together with CS5. Cameron (@left) was flipped horizontally from the original.
These are very similar to Rimelite's Speedbox and Adorama's Glow lines.
Currently (Oct '13) I had to import this softbox from Germany to the UK via Ebay - originally it came from Korea.
First impressions are good - the balance between weight saving and overall strength seems to be about right. There's not much room to spare around the flash-head of my old Canon 550Ex - I can use a gel though. (Max dimensions of the opening: 6.0 X 8.8 mm) (A 580ExII complete with Speedstrap and velcro'd gel, is snug!) The Phottix Odin Rx - TTL trigger fits easily into the setup. This, or the smaller size, could go on a camera bracket (perhaps the camera-flip, left hand, type), but I think anything bigger would become pretty unwieldy. A Nano stand, or similar, can easily handle this little guy - great for a Val's pole too.
With 2 diffusion layers, there's minimal central hotspot effect. It produces very nice shadow transitions and would be easy to mask down to a circle if desired. The plastic adaptor (metal-to-metal for both important threads) is ratcheted and if a flat was ground onto the spigot, it could resist torque when the stand or pole leaves the vertical. Already I can see this becoming a favourite small softbox, it looks right and it's easy to setup to do want you want it to do. When packing away, you need to remove the L bracket, in order to fit it into the case - those 2 small thumbscrews are metal-in-plastic threads, so don't be heavy-handed there. I'll be putting guide marks on the stainless uprights. The case would easily take a Speedlite, receiver, pack, gells and spare cells as well as the modifier - very handy.
The Phottix Mitros+ would be highly suitable, both for simplicity and to reduce weight even further for your long-suffering Val.
There's also a '60' version and even a '70' (more spokes too) - my guess is that there would be diminishing returns on the 70 size, as that's still limited to a single speedlite too. (Edit: There are 2 versions of the 70 - one allowing a speed-ring swap and so, a more powerful studio-light option.). With 2 diffusion layers it's marginal as to whether the 70 is going to deliver enough light, used with a single Speedlite, anyway - unless you are happy with high isos.
SB24 in a large softbox at camera left. SB24 bounced off of a white reflector at camera right. Fired with Cybersyncs.
Shot on Fujifilm FP-100B with a Polaroid 440 Automatic Land Camera and a Kali-Copier. Lit with a Honeywell Strobolite 18 through a Lumiquest Softbox III.
Built a simple softbox using a basic 12x12 cardboard box and some white tissue paper.
The Tutorial said to use tracing paper but since I didn't have any, I thought white tissue paper might make a good replacement. I guess it worked pretty decent. I think I still have some tweaking to do to get it figured out. Took me 10 shots to get this one so maybe next time 5!
Thanks to my kind nephew for allowing me to use his wireless transmitter so I can take my flash off camera to do this experiment.
Just 1 580EXII overhead set Manual at 1/32 power.
New Light Stand. Using a strobe light in a softbox to illuminate another strobe in a softbox may be a violation of the laws of thermodynamics, but I did it anyway.
The new light stand is a Matthews "Hollywood Baby Jr. Triple Riser." It may be a "Baby Jr.," but it can extend to > 12 ft. / 3.7 meters in height and it looks and feels as if it could support a tank. The studio strobe that it holds is a Profoto B1 Air TTL 500 and the octagonal softbox is a Chimera 36" Octaplus Fixed Light Bank. I love the Profoto B1 Air TTL so much that I have a second on on order! That, of course, will mean getting a second Matthews Baby Jr., and after that...
I learned about this Matthews stand in an Adorama video by Mark Wallace www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa6wD8L9VXI,
Lighting the scene-within-a-scene, at far right, is a single Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite in a 30-year-old Westcott softbox from my late brother George's studio. A Canon ST-E3-RT radio remote triggered the Canon Speedlite, and the Canon Speedlite triggered the Profoto's optical slave.
Also seen, propping up a foamcore reflector to the left of the subject, is an Avenger C-stand. The tripod at right, one of half a dozen or so that I own, is a Manfrotto 057 Carbon Fiber. It has on it a Novoflex CASTEL-Q Focusing Rack that I use for macrophotography like this www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/14067598126/.
Photo: Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 24-105 zoom. The 5D is tethered to Lightroom 5 on the 17" MacBook Pro seen at lower left. At any given time, then, the previous exposure is visible on the Mac display. Full EXIF below.
Made at Gambrills, Maryland, May 6, 2014. Flickr identifies this as "Wethersfield." Neither I, nor anyone I know, has heard of "Wethersfield!"
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Strobist setup:
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Editado el 20.jun.11
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This was designed for www.diyphotography.net softbox contest. Orginal plan was to have a black cloth exterior and a reflective/shiny silver interior. The base that mounts to the stand and holds the flashes was designed for thicker polls then I ended up using as the original polls were not as flexible as I thought and broke when bent to far. I ended up using steel plastic coated gardening rods. These were very flexible, and light weight. I was not able to use the fabric I purchased because my Sewing machine broke on me. So at the last minute I had to scramble and find a substitute. I ended up using white and black plastic table cloths, cut 4 panels of each color and taped together along the sides then each panel taped together. for the front diffusion panel I used a protective seat cover the came with a chair I ordered from target. It is about 2 feet wide in each direction.