Strobist: Post your photos and setups

[themedicine]

I thought it would be interesting and informative to have an area of the forum where we can post photos with the setup listed below it. Kind of like the the strobist group on flickr but here instead! I find this sort of thing to be quite educational and intriguing.
I searched to try and find if this existed, but it did not come up.
I'll start, so everyone can get the idea of what to include in their posts. If no one likes this idea, the thread will obviously die. If people like it, I hope you join along. This doesn't have to just be small strobes either, all studio setups should be welcomed as well as other sources of light (car lights, shop lights flashlights) as long as you include light setup descriptions.
You're welcome to post all the photos you want, as long as an off-camera light of any sort was used and you include a description of the setup!

This is not supposed to be a critique thread but a discussion/instructional thread. Please ask all the questions you want and help all of us learn more about lighting and the process of it. Thank you.

I'll start with a few.


candyssmallcandy (33 of 44) by TheMedicine, on Flickr
Strobist: Vivitar knock off camera right with shoot through umbrella at about 1/4, sb-800 with green gel at 1/32 camera left and underneath via VAL (voice activated lightstand aka a person), another vivitar knock off at 1/16 aimed at the ceiling.


PissAnt3-6-10 (3 of 8) by TheMedicine, on Flickr
Strobist: Sb-800 stage right with cto gel at 1/4 and vivitar knock off stage left at 1/4


lizpreview (1 of 1) by TheMedicine, on Flickr
Strobist: sb-800 bare at 1/2 power back left of model. vivitar knockoff through shoot through umbrella model right as well as the sun.


Fillinpreview by TheMedicine, on Flickr
Strobist: 1 sb-800 high camera right into inflatable soft box activated via CLS. This was the result of all my triggers dying after ONE shot.

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[mrpink]

I will play along....

D90, one SB-600 fired bare, high camera right.

A. 130 by Matt Francosky, on Flickr

D90, 2 SB-600's, Shoot thru umbrellas, High camera left, Fill camera right.

DSC_7827-3ww by Matt Francosky, on Flickr






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[eric-holmes]

SB600 in beauty dish high camera right.


SB600 in beauty dish camera right.

[dylanstraub]

Very nice shots so far.

[themedicine]

YAY!! I'm so excited to see some more!
Eric-Holmes: Are you the one with the DIY beauty dish?? I think I saw some senior shots you did and the light was quite good. You don't have a link to building that thing do you?

Keep em rolling. A few more and I'll post some more too...

[Buckster]

Composite of two photos shot one right after the other.

For the main shot (no spray), I set up the camera including focus, then shut off the lights and used a hand-held 580 EX II flash on manual at 1/32 power to Illuminate the product from behind (2 pops, upper left and right) and from the front (2 pops, 1 @ lower left a bit further away than the others and the other at about eye-level right) during the 20 second exposure.

For the spray shot, I used the same setup, but lit with only 2 pops from almost directly beneath the spray (one further away from the spray than the other), while I squeezed the bottle's trigger, once for each pop.

I used the composite to remove my trigger-squeezing-hand from the shot.

[themedicine]

^^^great work, good imagination, and wonderful execution^^^
Thank you for sharing this.

[Buckster]

[Derrel]

Buckster,
Your attention to detail is amazing, as noted by this small crop from your setup diagram! That's a great setup, using one light for background illumination, and also for fill light via the silvered reflector! An excellent contribution to this thread.

[Buckster]

LOL!

I confess, I stole "Numbnuts" from Joe McNally. It's just too fun (and true) not to use.

[redtippmann]

There is 3 SB-600 units over my head on a c-stand with boom. All three were going through a single 40 inch umbrella. And all were commanded by a SU-800 trigger with +1 EV comp. for CLS.


3 sb-600's in this set up. 1st on group A going through 40 inch umbrella camera left with probably +1 EV. 2nd in a B group with a 1/2 cut of CTO going through a 1/8th inch grid camera right with -2 EV. And a 3rd in group C, camera right, set to M1/1 (full blast) to get some detail out of the background because i didn't want to drag the shutter at 1/10th of a second because it was so dark out (and I was shooting at 200mm)


This is an homage to Joe McNally well I draw a lot of inspiration from him (He's the best IMHO) But really simple setup. 1 SB-600 with 1/8inch grid and 1 cut of CTO going through a 30 inch umbrella (flash really close to the umbrella to minimize the spread if the light) And camera set to tungsten to get some cool color.

[Dominantly]

Ahh, which ones...


I was playing with shadows on this one, trying to take ambient down and use my couch as a studio.
f/4.5, 1/25, ISO 200, 105mm, SB-600 fired camera left right at the monkey



Taken outside as the sun was setting
f/4.8, 1/1600, ISO 500, 120mm, SB600 fired into 42" umbrella high over my right shoulder, silver reflector held on the left angled up


D90, SB-600, 50mm f/1.8
Shot outside, f/4.5, 1/1600, ISO 500, 50mm, SB-600 shot into 42" umbrella high over my left shoulder with reflector opposite for fill.


D90 Nikkor 55-200, SB-600

f/4.5, 1/320, ISO 500, 102mm, SB-600 fired into 42" umbrella above camera left

[GeneralBenson]

SB600 in beauty dish high camera right.


SB600 in beauty dish camera right.

Great shots, Eric!

Love the the contrasty B&W conversion. It works very well with the punchy dish light.

[Tee]

I just recently got into speedlights. 1 SB-600 was used.

The set-up:



The shot:




One more:

[point-&-shoot]

nice shots Tee