Jurassic Park 4.5... Velociraptors are Dangerous!

cgipson1 · Jan 9, 2012

Demers18 said:
cgipson1 said:

The full body B&W?

24" softbox 45 degree right / 45 degree high about 12" away with one SB-900 at 3/4 power.....on left at 90 degrees , one Sb900 at 1/4 power with the bounce card pull out and the flash head pointed up at about 60 degrees, just for a little fill. Both on pocket wizards, controlled by SU-800... camera on manual - ISO 400 | 1/200 | F14

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Yes the full body B&W.

That is quite a range of equipment. I'll have to google a couple of them as I'm not familiar with them all.

Did you go into your shoot with a preset of how you will place your lighting or is it trial an error? For example using the SB-900 @ 3/4 power?

I actually played quite a bit with both the lights and the modifiers... I would shoot, check it.. and adjust something. Trying to make sure I didn't get glare off of the plastic, maintain good exposure, and get the DOF I was wanting... it was fun! Different positions on the lights / modifiers had the greatest effect... and yes, I tried several. I have done enough of this type of shooting to have some general idea what I wanted to do.. and then it just took fine tuning.

As a starting point.. look at any two light portrait setup... principle is the same.

Demers18 · Jan 9, 2012

cgipson1 said:
Demers18 said:

cgipson1 said:

The full body B&W?

24" softbox 45 degree right / 45 degree high about 12" away with one SB-900 at 3/4 power.....on left at 90 degrees , one Sb900 at 1/4 power with the bounce card pull out and the flash head pointed up at about 60 degrees, just for a little fill. Both on pocket wizards, controlled by SU-800... camera on manual - ISO 400 | 1/200 | F14

Click to expand...

Yes the full body B&W.

That is quite a range of equipment. I'll have to google a couple of them as I'm not familiar with them all.

Did you go into your shoot with a preset of how you will place your lighting or is it trial an error? For example using the SB-900 @ 3/4 power?

Click to expand...

I actually played quite a bit with both the lights and the modifiers... I would shoot, check it.. and adjust something. Trying to make sure I didn't get glare off of the plastic, maintain good exposure, and get the DOF I was wanting... it was fun! Different positions on the lights / modifiers had the greatest effect... and yes, I tried several. I have done enough of this type of shooting to have some general idea what I wanted to do.. and then it just took fine tuning.

As a starting point.. look at any two light portrait setup... principle is the same.

That's awesome, you really did a great job. I look forward to the day where I can get some "actual" photography lighting equipment and setup a mini studio in basement. (currently renovating it and making a little area for it)
Lighting is something I haven't studied yet as I'm still focusing on composition and exposure. Once I feel I have a good grip on those I will add another element to my shoots and so on.

cgipson1 · Jan 9, 2012

Demers18 said:
That's awesome, you really did a great job. I look forward to the day where I can get some "actual" photography lighting equipment and setup a mini studio in basement. (currently renovating it and making a little area for it)
Lighting is something I haven't studied yet as I'm still focusing on composition and exposure. Once I feel I have a good grip on those I will add another element to my shoots and so on.

Thanks! It adds another element of FUN to it also... you can do a lot with it!

btw... I cleaned up that Velociraptor shot some.. got rid of the molding line behind the hind leg.. and fixed the eye. Don't have it where I can post it here.. but it is on my Flickr... let me know what you think. Toy Velociraptor | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Demers18 · Jan 9, 2012

cgipson1 said:
Demers18 said:

That's awesome, you really did a great job. I look forward to the day where I can get some "actual" photography lighting equipment and setup a mini studio in basement. (currently renovating it and making a little area for it)
Lighting is something I haven't studied yet as I'm still focusing on composition and exposure. Once I feel I have a good grip on those I will add another element to my shoots and so on.

Click to expand...

Thanks! It adds another element of FUN to it also... you can do a lot with it!

btw... I cleaned up that Velociraptor shot some.. got rid of the molding line behind the hind leg.. and fixed the eye. Don't have it where I can post it here.. but it is on my Flickr... let me know what you think. Toy Velociraptor | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The eye definitely looks better, seems to "pop" more and gives it more life.
As for the leg, you can still kind of see where the line is but that's with me looking back and forth between the two and trying to look for it. If you didn't have the other photo to reference it I think anyone would have a hard time seeing it. Although, I'm sure you'll get it up to snuff in no time.