Don Kondra
09-01-2008, 11:07 PM
Greetings,
I hope some will find this helpful...
The object of the shoot is a green hollow turning by Michael Hosaluk.
Manitoba maple burl circa 1985.
The lights are CF bulbs, the new energy saver fluorescent twisty type with a 5000k rating.
The two side lights have 65w bulbs in 10" reflectors with shoot through satin umbrellas. The main light camera right is a 4 bulb x 27w in a 16" reflector with nylon diffuser.
I figure I have a combined equivalent of 800w incandescent so it is important to have the shooting location as dark as possible. During the day I just hang large sheets of cardboard on the windows.
The paper back drop is "focus gray". I cut the 9' roll into a 6' and a 3'.
Contact me if you would like more info and costs on the lights.
Olympus E-510 with 18-180mm @ 105mm, 1/8, f 8, iso 100
I set the metering and focus to center point, just in front of the top opening. This will generally give me a cleaner image and I crop later to center it.
With such a slow speed I used a 2 second delay.
I developed the raw file with Master and did some minor adjustments and small crop in FastStone Image Viewer, a pretty good free editor.
NOTE. The photo set up shows the camera location for a shot with a 50mm lens, for the 18-180 the tripod is moved back to beside the main light... the light stand on the far right is not in use...
Cheers, Don
I hope some will find this helpful...
The object of the shoot is a green hollow turning by Michael Hosaluk.
Manitoba maple burl circa 1985.
The lights are CF bulbs, the new energy saver fluorescent twisty type with a 5000k rating.
The two side lights have 65w bulbs in 10" reflectors with shoot through satin umbrellas. The main light camera right is a 4 bulb x 27w in a 16" reflector with nylon diffuser.
I figure I have a combined equivalent of 800w incandescent so it is important to have the shooting location as dark as possible. During the day I just hang large sheets of cardboard on the windows.
The paper back drop is "focus gray". I cut the 9' roll into a 6' and a 3'.
Contact me if you would like more info and costs on the lights.
Olympus E-510 with 18-180mm @ 105mm, 1/8, f 8, iso 100
I set the metering and focus to center point, just in front of the top opening. This will generally give me a cleaner image and I crop later to center it.
With such a slow speed I used a 2 second delay.
I developed the raw file with Master and did some minor adjustments and small crop in FastStone Image Viewer, a pretty good free editor.
NOTE. The photo set up shows the camera location for a shot with a 50mm lens, for the 18-180 the tripod is moved back to beside the main light... the light stand on the far right is not in use...
Cheers, Don