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p.3 #1 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

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

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Edited on Mar 22, 2008 at 09:03 PM

Mar 22, 2008 at 09:03 PM

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

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

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Mar 23, 2008 at 08:07 AM

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p.3 #3 · 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.3 #4 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

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

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Mar 25, 2008 at 05:13 AM

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p.3 #5 · 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)

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Mar 26, 2008 at 03:19 AM

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p.3 #6 · 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.3 #7 · 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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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.3 #8 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

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

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Mar 29, 2008 at 05:21 AM

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p.3 #9 · 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.3 #10 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

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

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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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p.3 #11 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

Made a modification to my DIY-twinlight yesterday....

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Its actually a two-tunnel, pointed downwards. Alum-foil on the inside walls and two shampoo bottles.

Jun 27, 2008 at 03:45 AM

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p.3 #12 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

This is a great thread, with lots of useful ideas. Here's my meagre contribution, built just last night. Background: the E-3 with Sigma 150mm and FL-50, just to give an idea of the size and distances involved. Since the Sigma 150mm has a working distance of about 15cm from the front element, I figure I want the light to begin focusing down just around the end of the lens.

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I built the snoot out of thin corrugated cardboard that I salvaged from a box for an electric house fan I bought a few days ago. I selected this material since it was handy, nice and rugged, easy to form, and it had a kind of plasticized finish on the outside that should help preserve it a bit better.

After cutting it to shape, I lined it with 75mm wide adhesive-backed glossy aluminum repair tape from the local home center; here's what it looked like (upside down).

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And mounted on the flash:

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I then covered the opening with some left-over plastic sheet I originally purchased for the softbox I built last year. Right now I've only attached the plastic with cellophane tape since I want to experiment with materials as I go along.

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. . . and a couple of quickies from the garden:

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Aug 12, 2008 at 02:43 AM

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p.3 #13 · Whats your macro lighting setup?

wow! these are crazy!!!!

i just put a 1 litre carved up milk jug on top of my siggy ef500 dg super!

Aug 12, 2008 at 05:14 AM

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