Camera Labs

IMG_0027 by ianganderton, on Flickr
Camera Canon EOS 550D
Exposure 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 135 mm
ISO Speed 100

Back lit with flash 430 EXII fired wirelessly at 1/8th but with a piece of paper over the lens and a diffuser on top of that against a peice of white A4 paper hanging from a tenuous back drop support made from plastic coat hangers zip tied together.

I've been experimenting this eve with a view to this months assignment. I've been trying to work out what a silhouette is and how to get some depth in an image.

I havent tried to take this sort of image before so I've had an interesting evening messing around with the flash

There is a set of 5 of these images and the others can be found on Flickr HERE. C&C would be gratefully recieved

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Canon EOS 550D (with Magic Lantern)
18mm - 135mm Kit Lens, 50mm f1.8, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM
430EX II Flash with Phottix Strato Wireless Tigger Set
Manfrotto 190CXPRO3 with 496 Ball Head. Gorilla Pod SLR
Canon Powershot A720IS with CHDK and intervalometer script. Pentax Optio W90

My Blog - http://www.ianganderton.wordpress.com

Absolutely fantastic. Belongs on a wall at a high-end club or restaurant. If I were to complain about only one thing is that the vignette follows the shape of the glass a little to closely, but that could be just my taste. Nice work.

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Trevor Harris

Nikon D200
SB-600
YN-560 II
YN RF 603 x 4
Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8
Nikon 50mm f/1.8

Cracking image Sharp, but still has that feeling of movement. Really good lighting too.

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Nikon D700 & D7100 bodies + Nikkor 300mm F2.8 VR11, 1.7TC, 50mm F1.4G, 16-35mm f/4G VR, 105 F2.8 VR macro, 70-300mm lenses. A couple of filters, Giotto tripod & ballhead. Lowepro Slingshot 302 AW

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldcarlos/

Great Pic

nice job, movement, colour and its interesting.

It would be fun trying that including drinking all the red wine after every shot.

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Canon Powershot S95, Canon 7D, 15-85, Canon 85 1.8 USM, Sigma 30 1.4, 50mm 1.8, Canon 100 2.8L IS Macro, Canon 70-300L IS USM+Kenko 1.4 Pro 300DGX, Canon 430EX II and RS 4 Classic

Thanks folks, +ve comments are always nice to get.

Its not really my type of photography but it was a fun and really interesting learning experience messing with the lighting etc that built into this series of shots.

Trevor - The vignette is caused by the diffused flash being close to the A4 white paper background its shining through. Initially I'd had a quite even background lighting with the flash well back from the background paper. Some how it ended up a lot closer and I noticed the effect. Initially it was centre and low but messing with it it definitely fitted best when following the shape of the glass, to my eye anyway lol

maxji- have no fear, no wine was wasted in the making of this image!

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Canon EOS 550D (with Magic Lantern)
18mm - 135mm Kit Lens, 50mm f1.8, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM
430EX II Flash with Phottix Strato Wireless Tigger Set
Manfrotto 190CXPRO3 with 496 Ball Head. Gorilla Pod SLR
Canon Powershot A720IS with CHDK and intervalometer script. Pentax Optio W90

My Blog - http://www.ianganderton.wordpress.com

Stunning shot Ian! Personally, I like the vignette following the shape of the glass - looks more artistic.

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Flickr

Well done! Nice composition and colors!

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My photostream

Hi Ian,
Yours is a beautiful shot. Actually inspired by your shot i tried my best.
Dint have any external lights that i could i use. Just used the in-built flash. Had to some heavy PP to get the effect i liked. Used Coke



50mm-ISO100
1/200s-F/8

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Cheers!
Arun

Nikon D3100
Tamron SP 17-50 f/2.8 non VC
Tamron SP 70-300

That's cool!

It has a very summery feel to it. Interesting comparing yours with its front lighting and mine with its back lighting

What's the back ground your using? I tgink this is whats contributing to the summery beach feel

Thinking it might make quite a good series of images. Essentially the same image but trying to capture different feelings/enviroments. Mine has a bit of an 80's wine bar feel to it, bit athena for my taste. Wonder if it would be possible to capture an english pub, a french bar, a carribean beach bar, ski bar vin chaud etc etc

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Canon EOS 550D (with Magic Lantern)
18mm - 135mm Kit Lens, 50mm f1.8, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM
430EX II Flash with Phottix Strato Wireless Tigger Set
Manfrotto 190CXPRO3 with 496 Ball Head. Gorilla Pod SLR
Canon Powershot A720IS with CHDK and intervalometer script. Pentax Optio W90

My Blog - http://www.ianganderton.wordpress.com

Haha! That will be interesting. We can tick 80's wine bar & Summery Beach off the list..

Well for the background i actually used kitchen towel...Dint have any white sheet of paper around

The summery feel might be because of the coke cola actually maybe my shorter shutter speed compared to your longer speed had some difference... but i think its mostly the coke vs wine

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Cheers!
Arun

Nikon D3100
Tamron SP 17-50 f/2.8 non VC
Tamron SP 70-300