9 posts tagged “strobist”
A couple from last week.
Here are some watches I recently shot for a client who sells on ebay. He specifically asked for photos that were realistic looking but professional *whatever that means*. I used my two studio heads with large softboxes and combined with my sb800 to shoot most of these.
The Navitimer is worth something like $4000. The other two watches were worth around a grand each.
This was only visible sign of life that we found during our expedition inside the multiple mile long wooden flume near Reno, NV. Fielding, Nick, Tony and I spend hours exploring and photographing this amazing find!
The flume turned out to be a fairly dangerous place as one of the photographers in our group almost fell through the rotten, wooden floor. We could see light coming through the floor in places. The flume runs about 15-20 feet above the ground, so falling through would not have been too fun.
I finally got my new camera on Monday and I've been really itching to shoot something, so I decided to play around with some flowers.
Comments welcome...
Last night I made the tough realization that I need to sell off ALL of my 4x5 stuff :( I just haven't been doing any large format stuff lately and being a starving 24 year old that basically eats crap for camera equipment, I've decided to cut down my kit. Plus the cost for 4x5 e6 development is like $2-$3 a shot!
And since I converted my darkroom into a digital printing/matting room/office, I figured I'd ditch film all together.
In preparation for the online auctions I'll be putting together, I did some nice product shots of the equipment. Below is my 180mm APO Rodenstock lens.
Basically, I've got two strobes through softboxes on either side of the lens, which is sitting on a clear piece of glass I borrowed from a frame. The glass is on top of black velvet. To give a really nice clean specular, I placed some foamcore behind the lens and shot a speedlight into it.
I will soon post a complete list of all the stuff I'm going to sell including some Nikon lenses (not large format), for now, heres a quick list of stuff, PM me if you are interested and I'll set up an eBay auction for you.:
- Shenhao HZX 4x5-IIa 4x5 field camera w/Satin Snow GG
- Rodenstock Grandagon-N 75mm MC f/6.8 #109xxxxx
- Sinar Schneider Super-Angulon 90mm MC f/8 #137xxxxx
- Rodenstock APO Sironar-N 180mm f/5.6 #111xxxxx
- Schneider SYmmar-S 240mm f/5.6 #139xxxxx
- Schneider Componon-S 150mm f/5.6 enlarger lens
Comments welcome, more from this series to come...
Its been about a month since I've posted anything and I haven't really been doing much shooting. I did a product shoot for a local camera repair shop, I've been working on a pinup calender for the last 4 weekends with my buddy Fielding (our first real job for our new business) and I've finally picked up some studio lighting giving me a reason to shoot a gas mask I've been meaning to use in a photo. (I have big plans for a set of those masks) (I really like parenthesis) (oh ya, I forgot to add a period to the end of that last sentence) (.)
Also, I'm getting ready for our big trip to AZ for the upcoming strobist meetup. If anyone if going, drop me a line.
Some technical notes:
First photo: Nikon D200 @ 24mm, f22, a single interfit 600ws strobe at 1/32 very close with reflector dish, self port hand held
Second photo: (I think Fielding was shooting, we both set up lighting and took turns shooting, we also worked with hair and makeup artists):Nikon D2x, 28-70, f/8, interfit 600ws w/large octobank high and to camera right with a diffusion screen just in front of the octo, a shoot through umbrella to camera left, silver umbrella for background and snooted hair light on opposites behind
Third photo: Composed of 3 exposures: 1) lens off, casing on. 2) casing carefully removed. 3) lens mounted with casing removed. Camera was placed on a piece of glass with white paper underneath and lit with 3 diffused lights (one directly above and 2 on either side). Shot with a Nikon d50 and a 55mm micro (my ebay camera at work).
Fourth photo: A shot from a solo overnight trip to mono lake. It figures this was my favorite shot from the trip (not landscapes of the lake) Nikon D200, 12-24, 15-20 seconds
Here is a quick self-portrait of myself (left) and my good friend Danny (right). Check out the lighting and exposure specs below...
Exposure was 1/250 @ f2.5 ISO 100 with a 50mm f/1.4 lens. To help out with checking focus and composition I shot tethered.
Later in post, I changed the color of the white background to what you see above.
If you look through my blog, you'll see that I don't do too many portraits and I haven't had much experience with it. Therefore, I would love some feedback ;)
