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My ghetto softbox. Total cost (in addition to cheap plastic tripod and SB-600 I already own) is the price of four sheets of A4 paper. One even had some writing on it (the one being shot through). Manual flash level set from camera using Nikon CLS. Post processing for each shot consisted almost entirely of a slight white balance adjust and a slight crop.
My new and my first softbox. Came home from work and tried it. Do not like my face too much right now, so focused on the softbox - but is also abut the softbox, not me :-).
I hacked up a cardboard box and some tissue paper after work today. It is my intention to begin experimenting with light. This here is my first attempt.
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Willing volunteer, as long as her game isn't affected.
Strobist info: ISO 100, 1/13s @ f5.6. SB900 with a mini softbox at 1/64 power was triggered via CLS. Setup shot is here.
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Didn't quite nail it, but had fun trying.
Strobist info: 430EX in 23cm softbox camera left, bare 580EX behind pen, YN-560 in the box lighting from below, and SB-26 camera right.
The pen is sitting on top of a sheet of Crane's Denim Blues (paper made from Levi Strauss jeans scraps; now sadly discontinued), on top of an Ikea 10 gal. Sortera.
This isn't a real authentic Parker demonstrator (I'd probably never ink one of those if I got one). This is one of Ariel Kullock's "fantasy" demonstrators. All the hardware and guts are authentic, but the barrels are newly machined on original Parker factor equipment, as I understand it. Also, the cap is kind of like a transparent Vacumatic cap, only with the 51 clutch ring inside and no threads; on the genuine Parker demonstrators it's not, it's the usual metal cap. (link)
I have a soft spot for Parker 51 vacumatics, since it was the first vintage make I ever bought and restored for myself. Yeah. Everybody else starts out easy with a lever-fill Waterman 52 or something, but no, I had to go straight for the weird pen that needed specialized tools to fix. Bought a sac, a vac wrench, and a Dremel up front, and they've stood me in good stead ever since.
I knew that once I inked it, it would take complete disassembly and a good rinse and scrub session to get it back to this pristine state. Rinsing out a vac 51 is no trivial task.
Made a new softbox and took a quick test shot. Used built-in flash on my T3i to trigger slave since my wireless trigger hasn't arrived yet.
To illustrate the difference by not using and using a softbox. Even this homemade softbox does make a difference! Absolutely no different settings on camera or flashes in menu or position.
Working on feathering a softbox to get fast fall off across a subject. I wanted to use a softbox to light the face well but then have the light fall off quickly, down the torso. We used my Lumopro mini-boom / lightstand combo to angle the softbox. Here, I believe that we have it angled up and toward camera around the level of the subject's shoulders.
I think that I never got the look I was going for in the past because I didn't realize how far the softbox needs to be turned to get the light to fall off this fast. It's not sufficient to be past the "edge" of the softbox. The part of the subject that I want to get no light from the softbox basically shouldn't be able to see any of the face of the softbox. We turn the softbox so that the subject's face is very much to the side of the softbox but can still see most of the face of the softbox. But by the time we get to the subject's waist, the face of the softbox should not be visible at all. Using that approach, I can more easily gauge how the light will fall off.
For these photos, we wanted to get a little more ambient. At Steven's suggestion, I tried using the overhead lights as a graphical element in the photo. In this image, I think that I aligned the subject well with the overhead lights. Unfortunately, I don't like the light on the face in this image.
Post processing: color balance, crop.
Strobist info:
* Key: SB-28 at about 1/2 power with a diffuser in a Westcott Apollo 28" softbox, camera left at about 8 o'clock and angled up and toward camera on a mini-boom arm.
* Kicker: SB-24 with a long snoot, camera right at 2 o'clock.
Triggered with RadioPopper JrX triggers.
Assembly drawing showing completed softbox made out of foamcore board for 580 EX2. Dimensions shown are approximate (based on perfect CAD data.) Extra mounting/re-inforcement shown in assembly. Will allow mounting onto light stand.
coffee shot using a lensbaby. The reflection in the coffee is from a mobile phone display (calculator app) held over while shooting.
My adorable kids!
Strobist Info: Lit using a LumiQuest Softbox III and a Sunpak 383 @ 16th power on camera left. Triggered wirelessly via Skyports
Chris!
24" Cowboy Studio Softbox w/ a Yongnuo YN-560 II at 1/4
Tweaked a bit in lightroom and brought exposure up a tad.
Coming soon, to theater near you.
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hahahah, just a joke. :P
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1 speedligts EVO 620e with umberella softbox. wireles trigger. no refflector.
Pick and shoot. Me and my good friend Sopan doing a walk to Kpg Semariang Batu yesterday when we met this boy playing with the hammer behind the under construction house. We are very lucky because this young kid agree when we want to shoot his portrait. The unplanned pose, he is freely move in-front of my lens ;D
Info: single YN460 flashing through softbox from right
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