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Elinchrome ELB400, Profoto RFI Softbox 1,3x2"
Film: Kodak Panatomic-X (Expired 1990).
Dev: Caffenol-c-l, 50min stand, 20°.Agitation 1'st minute .
Camera: Hasselblad 500C/M .
Lens: Planar 100/3.5
I really like the portability of strobe lights. I'm talking about the speedlite units, stands and umbrellas, not the large studio strobes with modeling lights. Fortunately with digital the question of whether or not the strobes fired is immediately reviewable.
A flash/ambient meter is almost a necessity I've found in outdoor locations. On the other hand, tho heavier and usually needed a power outlet, are the flat panel displays. A bit bulkier but still fairly portable.
John and I were doing a photo shoot in one of the U's studios and using a soft box . . . hence the warm light on John's neck and 2 strobes, with umbrellas. I find it very relaxing to do shoots with good shooting friends.
Two of the members of the "A-Team", Nita Jane, and Barry come onboard when the shoot is more complex and more assistants or creative input is needed.
This was pretty straighforward, and I took the opportunity to do some "wing shooting" of the preparations.
This vintage airplane has strobe lights in the windows and on the outside so it can put on a light show at night.
This particular night was so active, incredibly this is just a 30s shot. The bolts were coming down everywhere. The winds just in front of this system were very strong, at one stage I had to hop into my car, and hope to god my camera rig was sheltered enough not to get knocked over.
Now it's winter, I'm just waiting for next spring-summer so I can get back out into the wheatbelt and beyond.
location: mall of asia (sm annex), pasay city, philippines
event: bdo regional christmas party
on action: oya
shot taken last: december 17, 2011
image info:
nikon d90
18-200mm lens @ 26mm focal length
iso : 320
exposure : 1/13s
aperture : f/9.0
w/o filter
camera set in manual
handheld
strobing info:
nikon speedlight SB-900 extended flash with diffuser, mode: TTL @ comp. 2.0
built in flash, fired (used as command) mode: TTL @ comp. -3.0
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One of the techniques we were encouraged to try and in many cases works very well, is backlighting. Backlighting is never directly from the back, but from the side. Here I have one strobe on the housing, and a second remotely fired strobe I've placed on the ground near the anemone.
Guessing Amphiprion perideraion for the fishie.
camera : Hasselblad 500 C/M
lens : Carl Zeiss Planar T* C 80mm f/2.8
film : Kodak Portra160NC
model * A
taken @ my apartment, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. Japan
Something I've wanted to try! Need to work on the lighting a bit more when I have more time. But I am happy with it overall!
Strobist: 580EX II cam left. 430EX II cam right. Both slightly behind subject pointing away from background (black foam board)
Photo was taken with all the hall lights turned on, quite bright. With this shot, I was explaining the relationship between ambient light and shutter speed vs strobe light and aperture.
Elinchrom Quadra and 70cm Deep Octa up high and two feet from subject, with inner and outer diffusion.
Statue on Newhaven's Habour side, Light tube used in strobe mode. Small bit of flash used on r/h/s of statue.
6.30 in the evening rooftop shot, f10 1/160 sec, of camera flash with home made softbox to the left of camera - Lumix L1 - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport 2.
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Strobe info:
- One bare speedlight at 1/4 behind-above the subject
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One beauty dish for main light, gold reflector on the right side, one strobe(430ex) with small soft box high positioned, 2m, and one strobe (430ex II) with bounce diffuser, placed at 1m high from the floor, both speedlites was on manual mode, zoom 50mm and one strobe with reflector and grid for background. Texture of background was applied on ps.
Camera used 5d mk III with 70-200 2.8 IS II, at 120mm, triggered by PW tt5.
Your typical staff personalities that can be found in any office today.
Shot with a single SB900 hidden behind the lift door frame. triggered with a pocket wizard.
Any photographer who has ever hung around me knows I like to experiment and do things cheap less expensively if possible. Other than the menu driven functions, I have been quite happy with my little refurbished Nikon D5000 that I bought last year. When the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G came out last year, allowing me to couple my favorite lens to the lightweight body and still have auto focus, I was hooked. Eventhough I still prefer the simplicity and the feel of the D2X in the studio and for short jaunts, the D5000 has become my "carry around all day" camera.
Still, any photographer knows that light, and more specifically light direction, can make or break an image. I had a little SB400 speedlight that allows bounce flash from above, but I wanted it further off the camera. I tried a Softlighter with a couple of LP160s mounted on a monopod, but the contraption was bulky and just didn't work well in the wind or with crowds. Plus, by using a slave, every point & shoot camera in a crowd set off my strobe.
So, I located the remains of a broken monopod and attached a Nikon SC-17 cable to it. The SC-17 is the older version of the modern Nikon cable, without a pin hole for the flash locking pin. A little work with a drill and a 1/64 bit corrected that. The SC-17 does allow TTL capability. I placed a Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce diffuser on the flash and hooked everything up.
I like the little SB400 for general work. It places just enough light on the subject, is compact, quick to recharge, and uses only two AA cell batteries, further lightening my load. Once it became free from the camera, and able to light from any direction, it really came into its own.
Total investment, if I had to buy everything:
Nikon SB400 $119
Dolica monopod: $11
Nikon SC-17 (only available used) $15
Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce $11
Total: $156
Since I already had the stuff laying around, all it cost me was a 66 cent rubber cap to place on the end of the piece of monopod. For great light that I can instantly control, that's a deal.
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Reflector camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
Another one from our dancer's set.
This shot was a mix of using hotlights and strobes.
Strobist info:
Hotlight back left of subject
Studio strobe thru softbox camera left @ 2.0
Studiostrobe with barndoor back right of subject @ 2.0
Use photo ninja Raw Converter. Nice software, but Bad "Error Log" :(
strobist info : 1 strobe with octa softbox in front of the model. 2 speedlight with 2 diffrence colour gel in the bacground.
Today I checked out the Toronto Brickworks, a rundown brick factory that's been out of commission for probably longer than I've been alive. It seems like a pretty popular place amongst urban explorers and photographers. I accidentally startled a photographer that brought his clients here to take some shots.
For me, I simply wanted to scout the location and possibly experiment with some off-camera lighting. I've been reading quite extensively into the topic and thought I'd experiment with none other than myself as a subject.... (Mainly because I went on a whim..).. For now I'm limited to the Nikon CLS and an SB-600 for lighting... Fortunately this window provided excellent light for the front of this shot.. Hopefully next time I don't have to be both in front and behind the camera...
strobist: Sunlight coming from the window and a CLS triggered SB-600 positioned to the left of me at 1/4 ..
Apparently this was on explore (#101)