Shooting Rigs

[Battou]

well....Here is the idea here, grab your back up, P-shooter, box or whatever other camera you have and take a picture of a shooting setup you used to take a picture.





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You thought I was talking about trucks didn't you

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[LaFoto]

Oops. Cool new theme
I have only once photographed my set-up (when I did the droplet pics), so I might add that one to this new theme.
I get a crick in the neck from viewing the first three here, though... ouch! (Old neck of mine!).

[Battou]

Oops. Cool new theme
I have only once photographed my set-up (when I did the droplet pics), so I might add that one to this new theme.
I get a crick in the neck from viewing the first three here, though... ouch! (Old neck of mine!).

Yeah it is composed pretty badly, I was standing on a chair....and it is the only one that from the set with the 135mm set that the AF found something colse the the right subject.

I was going to rotate that and the second one but PB won't load now that I got them uploaded

[LaFoto]

A well. Never mind.

Here is mine then:



I can't think of any other I might have of the kind, though...

[Battou]

I fixed them as best I could where I am at, PB is still down so I had to use a back up host but...

[BrandonS]

Not to intrude on an already great theme, but maybe we could add the "finished" product shot after seeing the setup to give everyone an idea as to the outcome. I know that's what I'm wondering as I look at these.

[LaFoto]

Mine can be seen here , here , and here - though none of these actually sport the background I was testing when I took the photo of the set-up.

[Battou]

Not to intrude on an already great theme, but maybe we could add the "finished" product shot after seeing the setup to give everyone an idea as to the outcome. I know that's what I'm wondering as I look at these.

I had planned on doing so my self, results pending of course, so have at it.

[tpe]

This is my mark one macro stacking setup, the lens has changed and now there are bellows instead of extention tubes, but it is still essentially pretty similar .

Oops and finished product here...



Tim

[DeadEye]

Now that is an AWESOME macro. Please explain the lens shield and how it helps as I have never seen that before.

[TCimages]

One of my first Macro setup
1

shot from the set up


then I switched to this (nothing major):
2

a shot with this



3- My new setup


first shot with it. No subjects in the winter

[tpe]

Hey Deadeye, thanks a lot. The lens sheild is just basically a hood, but made to fit through a hole cut in a ping pong ball that works as a diffuser, giving (sometimes ) a really nice all round lighting effect.The lens hood is a must, and make it as tight to the lens as you can get, anything comming in from the side really makes a nasty glare because you have to keep the apperture as wide as possible, i know it is counter intuative, but at that magnification you get bad diffraction problems when you start getting hight f stops.


Tim

[DeadEye]

Thank you for the info. Man thats a cool XYZ focus rail with diffused cross lighting to boot, The work shows in the quality of your image.


Dan.

[Battou]

My sword tip shot faild, despite a thirty second exposure at f/1.4, I don't understand why it underexposed the way it did but I'll try again, untill then I am gonna pull the tip set up images. and replace them with the result image from the other one.


Nice set up tpe, I am glad I started this, not often one gets to see this stuff with out actually being there.

[KOrmechea]

The bug in tpe's post has about as much stuff hangin' off its face as the camera...

I love the spider, TC. How big was he?