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Studio strobe on a big PVC tripod for doing outdoor timelapse at night. Winds are lower at night, allowing you to work in the natural environment without the excessive vibrating effect caused by wind moving leaves during the interframe interval. I plan to adapt this technique to seasons timelapse once I have more experience with it at high framerates.
One strobe OC, one bare-bulb far CL pointing at bed. The original strobed shot had too much light spillage on the bed from the direct strobe, so I masked out some of those areas. Also masked in an ambient exposure to bring some some natural light to areas that were too dark.
Although I like blending ambient in with strobes, it's just too much work. In this case I did it because I wanted it for my portfolio... but normally I wouldn't spend soo much time per photo.
Strobist: ... but it was that super-duper powerful fireball that's free to all on any given sunny day. I've had a lot of people interested in the photos I took of my Canon G10 Waterfield Design camera case, but once they learn that I used 3 strobes, they lost interest in trying it themselves. So I finally took a break from my studies and set up my DIY ultra-cheap soft box for lighting exclusively with the sun to show everyone how easy it is to take these photos. Soft box setup photo is here, construction details are in this post. I've left myself and the white foam core board in the photo so you can see how I was lighting from the front; Strobists know where to look. :-)
Thanks to DH & the Strobist Community for teaching all of us how to better illuminate our photos, no matter what the light source is. Kudos to mingthein for the tips, tricks, and inspiration on fine watch photography.
This watch is a knock off purchased last year in Beijing. It's too gaudy for my tastes, but I'm such a sucker for skeleton watches and the workmanship on this watch is very impressive. I'm sure there are glaring defects in it for someone who is a watch connoisseur, but it's good enough for me. The prices for real Vacheron Constantin watches that I've seen start around new Mini Cooper prices and go up to luxurious house in the hills prices. Needless to say, I will not ever be purchasing an original at those prices!
Watch is resting on glass tiles that I found at a discount store for $1.50/ea which is on a square foot tile of frosted white plastic from Tap Plastic.
I liked the somewhat more abstract feel to this one.
I got my new Snap Shot II strobe light the other day. It's a great big thing, made for DJ's light systems. It makes a pretty good photo strobe, though. Nice and short but very intense flashes, up to 15 a second, and it can be controlled by my MAKE: Magazine strobe controller.
just came back from school. Spot the gobo to win a secret prize.
Strobist: SB900 back left 45, 50mm 1/128 gobo'd, SB900 front right just out frame 1/128 28mm grid feathered out.
Hurrell inspired assignment for school. Lighting: One strip bank on each side of my background and a beauty dish overhead and my qflash directly behind the model for my background light.
Thanks to Dan Kowalczyk for modeling.
I have always been fascinated with strobing. Finally got to play around with some strobes with friends. Here are some of the results.
Strobing info: 1 430ex at left side at 1/1 power shot thru an umbrella
Model: Tina Santos
Using the kit from MAKE magazine 4 and my Canon G4 - sound triggered strobe capture of a balloon popping.
A little change of pace from my typical import and exotic sports cars.
I used the shoot-through umbrellas/walls as reflectors. The confines were so close that even shooting through the umbrellas at low power was giving hot spots. This lit it a little softer and more evenly.
Having a play with the lighting setup in the studio (now that I have one!). Thanks to Dave and Bob for coming in to help and *cough* model. :-)
Shot at the Bangalore Strobist's Meet @ Srirangapatna. Thanks to Sunil for lending me his 70-200 f/4L lens to take this shot!!
Strobist Info -
A Vivitar 285HV at full power shot through an umbrella model left-top, a Nissin flash optically triggered from model right about 45 degrees and another Vivitar at 1/4th power behind the model lighting the thermocol background.
Setup can be seen here