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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.
Was going to do a jumping shot, but didn't want to copy Jen again. I ended up pulling my 3 strobes out, 580ex, Lumopro 160, and Vivitar 273. Setting them all on my truck off camera left and firing them w/ Cybersyncs at FULL power. :)
First attempt at doing a strobe shot. Hard work! Realised it needs to be pretty dark... even ambient "nearby house" light at 1AM was too much. +1 for Syl Arena's excellent guides in The Speedliters Handbook though!
Model: Cherie Lee
Art Direction: Jace Tan
Special thanks to my colleague Eddy Chung. Thanks to Junwei, for his kind assistance.
Special Thanks to Mr Yeow choon hong, Executive Producer of AI Films Pte Ltd for making this possible.
at Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
I only wish this movie could capture the animation as it is projected in human's mind when watching this up close in real life.
These are some of my flashes used for cave photography. The smaller items are slave units which trigger the flashes from the pulse of light given out by other flashes. I have a masked flash on the camera, which triggers the slave units without shedding direct light on the scene. The slave units detect invisible infrared light given out by all flashes. They are specially designed for underground use, being extremely sensitive. They will work around corners over 50 metres or more from the next nearest flash, and much further when there is a direct line of sight. The mask on the camera mounted flash lets the infrared light through, but not the visible light. I use black PVC electrical insulating tape to mask the flash.
I fit standard audio phonon connectors into the leads of all my slave units so that I can attach any slave to any flash. This is invaluable as bits of kit always pack up underground, and I can simply swap kit around to get something working rather than it forcing me to end the shoot early. Since taking this picture I have swapped the cheap plastic phono connectors for metal ones as the plastic sleeves pull off the threads when you try to unplug them once everything gets dirty. The black rectangular slave units are commercially produced Firefly2 slave units. The white plastic cylindrical ones are home made equivalents built from kits supplied by David Gibson in the UK, who designed the circuit which both types are based on.
There is a LED enclosed at the left which flickers at the turntable's platter speed (eg. 33 1/3 RPM), which then results in one of the lines of dots appearing to be stationary.
In the case of 33 1/3 RPM, the largest dots appear not to be moving. Speeding up the turntable eventually causes the higher dots to stay, and vice versa.
Taken with one of my new Alien Bees strobes :D
B1600 at 1/2 power on Camera left w/ 40 degree Honeycomb Grid.
I just finished setting up the small studio room, and the first thing I do is grab my iphone3 and hipstimatic just for fun.
One soft box camera top right, almost touching dawn and another camera left shining mostly on the grey wall behind her with a little spilling over to the side of her face.
Can't sinc the strobes so I used the modelling light :)
Strobist: Yungnuo by her right side over her hair with CTO filter, bounced at front. 2nd strobe at left as a ring light.
This one is close to what I wanted minus the third strobe that should have been over head through a beauty dish but guess what... I don't have a third strobe nor do I have a beauty dish. So this is the best I could do!
Strobist info:
Nikon SB-25 Camera Right, Slightly behind and slightly above 1/2 power
LumaPro LP-120 Camera Left Slightly behind and slightly above 1/2 power
I didn't expect to be shot by David Hobby today in fairness, but was totally stoked to be part of one of the demo shots in todays Strobist seminar. It took him all of about 5-6 minutes to set up and explain the shot you can see here, using no less than 6 individual flashes. (I won't be re-creating this one at home any time soon!)
The setup for this one was kind of interesting. I started with a huge glass jar half full of water. It's sitting on a piece of white foam board and placed next to a white wall. There's a strobe with a blue gel on a sideways light stand pointed down into the jar. The single candle is about an inch behind the jar. Finally, I threw in some alka seltzer and fired away. My original idea was to use a match but I think it ended up looking too dim,
Had to share this one... Alley ways were so tiny (3 people wide), it took 9 attempts to get this right but when I did, wow... it floored me. Must see large!
Strobist info:
Nikon sb24@1/32 arms length up left behind couple for rim, 430exII @ 1/4(?) held at my arms length high left. Triggered via PW FlexTT5's. both strobes bare.
Here I ues one flash right of camera, one left of camera and one laying by the door. Don't know why, but I though it looked cool :P