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Archive 2008 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

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p.2 #1 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Looking good Preston

Mar 06, 2008 at 07:57 PM

Preston
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p.2 #2 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Thanks John. Mucking about with equipment and stuff is lots of fun.

Mar 07, 2008 at 04:19 AM

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p.2 #3 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

I also have a Brian/LordV diffuser but had trouble forming the connection to the flash. To resolve this I made a sleeve from foam board to wrap around the flash head and then taped the can formation to the foam board. Makes it real easy to get on /off the flash also made the formation of the diffuser a bit easier as you have a firm pre-shaped surface to tape it too

Mar 07, 2008 at 08:59 AM

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p.2 #4 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

hydrotoast wrote:
I also have a Brian/LordV diffuser but had trouble forming the connection to the flash. To resolve this I made a sleeve from foam board to wrap around the flash head and then taped the can formation to the foam board. Makes it real easy to get on /off the flash also made the formation of the diffuser a bit easier as you have a firm pre-shaped surface to tape it too
Excellent mod

Brian V

Mar 07, 2008 at 09:52 AM

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p.2 #5 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Im trying to figure out the best Flash bracket for me. Im exreamly handy and will be able to adapt my idea's to a bracket of choice.

What I dont get is after I attach the flash bracket how will I be able to put a shoe on for my tripod?

Mar 17, 2008 at 07:36 PM

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p.2 #6 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

TEASER wrote:
What I dont get is after I attach the flash bracket how will I be able to put a shoe on for my tripod?

Not sure if it's the best way of doing it but you can get the male 1/4" camera attachment bolt things with a female thread on the back of them so you can attach via another male 1/4" (presumably the shoe has this).
Brian V.

Mar 17, 2008 at 10:02 PM

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p.2 #7 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Still under construction, made from parts I found at work. Brian, how did you make the diffuser on yours?

Mar 18, 2008 at 06:04 PM

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p.2 #8 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

chrisa62401 wrote:
Brian, how did you make the diffuser on yours?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/macroviewers/discuss/72157594312315664/

Brian V.

Mar 18, 2008 at 06:29 PM

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p.2 #9 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

I also use the 580EX II, and a 360watt 3-bulb cool-light.
Light = http://www.natcam.biz/products.html#DHE:Specsheet:Id:254246:Section:Specs

sorry for the bad pic, was taken with my ooooold 2.0mp kodak point and shoot.

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12/20/36 tubes, not 12/20/30

Wow, I'm full of typos today.

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Mar 20, 2008 at 07:37 PM

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p.2 #10 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Adam Svoboda wrote:
I also use the 580EX II, and a 360watt 2-bulb cool-light.

sorry for the bad pic, was taken with my ooooold 2.0mb kodak point and shoot.

Like it- bet the bugs put their hands in the air when they see that pointed at them

- what mag ? - I reckon that lot does just over 10:1

Brian V.

Mar 20, 2008 at 07:45 PM

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p.2 #11 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

OMG, you people have some insane rigs here for Macro shooting. I had no idea of such setups. Awesome job to all.

-Frank

Mar 20, 2008 at 07:47 PM

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p.2 #12 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Brian, I figured 12:1 or so..

first I made a typo on the extension tubes, it should be 12/20/36

so theres 68mm, add that to the 100mm macro, you got 168mm, and ~1.68:1
(I'm told that every 1mm you add in bellows/extensions it adds .01 magnification)

times that by 2 (for the 2x extender) you get 336mm divide that by 28mm and you get 12 even. All I know is grains of salt are pretty big. I just got these extension tubes today, so I haven't shot anything really.

I'm not sure what formula to follow

(Main Lens + Extensions) x (extension power) / rev. lens

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Mar 20, 2008 at 08:07 PM

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p.2 #13 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Adam I'd just photograph the mm scale of a ruler then mag = sensor width/mm across pic. The calculations have some flaws in them esp where extension tubes are concerned. Somewhere between 10 and 12:1 anyway

Brian V.

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Mar 20, 2008 at 09:29 PM

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p.2 #14 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Heres with the full setup, only thing I did was Re-size, no sharpening :]

I'll get around to photographing a ruler one of these days, I'll post it here

Shots @ F/16

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Mar 20, 2008 at 11:12 PM

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p.2 #15 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Adam,

Wow! great job.

Thomas

Mar 20, 2008 at 11:29 PM

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p.2 #16 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Heres the MM on a ruler.
shot with 20D
No adjustments, only resize.

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Mar 22, 2008 at 09:03 PM

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p.2 #17 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Reckon that is only just over 7:1 ? -- 22.5/3.2

Brian V.

Mar 23, 2008 at 08:07 AM

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p.2 #18 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

I only haw my dads old yashice external flash. Can anyone please suggest what can I use to defuse light?

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Thanks.

Mar 24, 2008 at 02:54 PM

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p.2 #19 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

from the bench..............

Edited on Mar 25, 2008 at 05:17 AM

Mar 25, 2008 at 05:13 AM

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p.2 #20 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

WOW
And I thought my rigs looked crazy.

My main set up is a ringflash but I also use a FL 50 and a softbox2 on a boom as well as a smaller flash on a cord.

Ringflash on my 330 along with the my helper. (very cheap, worked for crickets)

JimB

Mar 26, 2008 at 03:19 AM

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p.2 #21 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

I use a flashlight and cheap close-up lenses...sometimes the on-camera flash dialed way down

seems to work for me

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Mar 26, 2008 at 06:57 PM

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p.2 #22 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Here's my redneck dual Bud Light beer can snoot setup (original single snoot design by LordV and he gave me permission to publish this):

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No Flash, P-Mode:
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With dual macro flash snoots:
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No Flash, P-Mode:
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With dual macro flash snoots:
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With dual macro flash snoots:
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I plan to make a more robust paper towel diffuser on the main snoot this weekend.

Here's a link to more images and my youtube build video.

-Roy

Mar 28, 2008 at 01:54 PM

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p.2 #23 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

2X - 6X setup with focusing light & flash diffuser.............

Edited on Mar 29, 2008 at 05:44 AM

Mar 29, 2008 at 05:21 AM

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p.2 #24 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Well, I came across this link in the Lighting forum: DIY Ring Flash So I decided to make my own. I didn't follow his instructions to the "T" but the result is just about the same. Diagram and BOM here: Parts List

Sorry about the volume of images, but it should help explain the "cause and effect".

-Roy

Jun 26, 2008 at 04:49 PM

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p.2 #25 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

I'm going to add my Foam ring flash while this is up.

I don't have pics of my boom set up for the fl 50 and soft box II

Jun 27, 2008 at 01:50 AM


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