Happy 21st Teon . These and the ones on your website look great .The lighting looks terrrific .Do you have a shot of your lighting setup ? I'd like to setup a dedicated area in some part of my house to muck around with lighting etc. If only i had the room !
Thanks,
I dont have a shot of the setup sorry - but it wasn't anything fancy. It was two lights bounced off umbrellas. One on each side of the subject. One was as close as I could get it without it being in the frame, and the other was as far back as I could get it in the room (they don't have power settings - so the only way to adjust the power is to move them farther away ). Just a black bed sheet hung behind them. The problem I have now though is that anyone wearing black has dissapeared into the black background, so I probably needed some more lights or something. But this was my first try, so I am happy
I dont have a shot of the setup sorry - but it wasn't anything fancy. It was two lights bounced off umbrellas. One on each side of the subject. One was as close as I could get it without it being in the frame, and the other was as far back as I could get it in the room (they don't have power settings - so the only way to adjust the power is to move them farther away ). Just a black bed sheet hung behind them. The problem I have now though is that anyone wearing black has dissapeared into the black background, so I probably needed some more lights or something. But this was my first try, so I am happy ...Show more →
When you say lights are they flashes or just lights like halogens
I always wanna get closer with my 50 - so the first thing that comes to my mind is a manual focus macro lens with built-in extention tubes.
Or maybe replace the front bit with a bit of glass like the kind you find above the bulb in old overhead projectors for a permament fish-eye?
What does it look like when you take a photo without the front element? Blury cr@p I imagine?
Without the front element , yep, its a blurry blob.
Do extention tubes have glass in them or are they just fancy spacers ?
I like the fisheye suggestion .
I am interested in doing something with it .It was only cheap but i can't bring myself to throw it away .
Tubes are just spacers without glass. Dunno if they would work between the elements but it's probabbly worth a shot. Or even try to make it bendy for the lens baby effect?
OR maybe knock out the glass element in the back of the lens and build a pinhole camera? (ick, might be inviting sensor dust :-( )
hydrotoast wrote:
When you say lights are they flashes or just lights like halogens
Sorry, they were strobe flashes - my dad used to do some portrait photography way back when (like 15 years ago) and these are left over from then - I found them in a cupboard and decided to play around a bit. I really want to do some more with them though. I only wish you could adjust the power levels.
JamesGreen wrote:
Tubes are just spacers without glass. Dunno if they would work between the elements but it's probabbly worth a shot.
hmmm - if only I could remember much about lens design from my photonics classes at uni... I ~think~ that moving the front element out will give you a closer minimum focus, but cost you infinity focus - much like tubes on the outside. Too much and you might not be able to focus at all!
hydrotoast wrote:
Love all your bike related images Chris try as I might I can not replicate this sort of thing. BTW what sort of lighting are using.
Thanks Chris.
Those shots were shot with 1 580EX (off shoe with a pocketwizard)
I just orded another 2 though, so will soon have 3!
I love that HDR image, looks great.
Well I finally sold my 20D, and have a 30D on the way...
Was going to get the 1DMIIN, but have heard there will be new pricing and 1 series cameras out in Sep.
what is there some law that says that this post may only include australians? I feel discriminated against. I'm 1/2 australian (my wife is a sandgroper).
I'll be returning to Perth soon....
Spoolin wrote:
Thanks Chris.
Those shots were shot with 1 580EX (off shoe with a pocketwizard)
I just orded another 2 though, so will soon have 3!
I love that HDR image, looks great.
Well I finally sold my 20D, and have a 30D on the way...
Was going to get the 1DMIIN, but have heard there will be new pricing and 1 series cameras out in Sep.
Chris.
Maybe I should arrange to come out on a shoot with you one weekend if you dont mind
Chris Low
ga1lyons wrote:
what is there some law that says that this post may only include australians? I feel discriminated against. I'm 1/2 australian (my wife is a sandgroper).
I'll be returning to Perth soon....
No no laws feel wecome to participate the more the merrier as things are a bit slow what with winter and all.
TeonHarasymiv wrote:
hmmm - if only I could remember much about lens design from my photonics classes at uni... I ~think~ that moving the front element out will give you a closer minimum focus, but cost you infinity focus - much like tubes on the outside. Too much and you might not be able to focus at all!
You are on the right track for a lens to have a 1:1 image size (life size) a 100mm conventional lens for example would in theory need 100mm extention tube to produce a life size image. Bear in mind though that a lens usually has a prebuilt amount of extention on a 100mm lens this is about 20mm so a 80mm extn tube would do the job.
A 100mm macro that can reach 1:2 would have 50mm built in and an extra 50mm extention tube would then make it 1:1
A 50mm macro lens that can change ratios has a floating element (rear I think) which is much the same as what you are trying to do.
Hope the above makes sense
So... I heard that Canon Australia in Sep, will be re-pricing all cameras + accessories to be more competitive... that and to also compete with D - D photographics.com.
Not sure if its true... but thats what I was told.
Should have my 30D + 580's and Sekonic L 558 this week! Cant wait!..... sorry... im just excited!
Got the 30D for $1500!
Spoolin wrote:
Thats exactly what I was going to say!
So... I heard that Canon Australia in Sep, will be re-pricing all cameras + accessories to be more competitive... that and to also compete with D - D photographics.com.
Not sure if its true... but thats what I was told.
It must be starting to hurt them what with guys like us buying all our gear direct from overseas or from online merchants whom source their stock from offshore. If the trend keeps up there will be no one left buying major gear from Aussie camera shops in a few years. Our local Fletchers bit the dust.
). Just a black bed sheet hung behind them. The problem I have now though is that anyone wearing black has dissapeared into the black background, so I probably needed some more lights or something. But this was my first try, so I am happy 
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