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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 821937" data-attributes="member: 50197"><p>The club had a macro workshop today. Unfortunately, the instructor/leader was sick so it was mostly a handful of us playing around with some of the equipment/props and sharing our knowledge. It was very interesting, but "studio" macro is an entirely different animal than the field macro I've been doing. I was a little disappointed with my results, although I felt I was exposed to some very interesting techniques and had a great time.</p><p></p><p>Here's a few.</p><p></p><p>I really wanted to turn this into a B&W. Unfortunately I couldn't seem to get enough really black blacks, so had to settle for the color version.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407909[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This was the most interesting technique. I didn't really get the hang of it until just before I needed to turn the setup over to someone else. Got a ton of out of focus shots, and not terribly interesting ones. They had one of the machines that spits out a specified number of drops at a specified time lag after the button is pushed. It had a cable you could hook to a camera using a hot shoe connection, but it was for Canons, so........... Instead we set it for a 5 second delay then a 4 drop sequence, and counted down to 5 and hit the shutter in burst mode. I think I could do fine with a suspended Ziploc bag with a pinhole in it. I would choose a different kind of bowl and background material. The biggest issue for me, is that after getting a couple dozen good shots with this, I would probably loose interest.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407908[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>I had high hopes with this one. I find that the hot spot and shadow in the bottom right hand corner annoy me. I could probably fix that in PS, but not sure it would be worth the effort. If I were to shoot it again, I would want to clean the light table thoroughly, and use a bigger soft box. I also would need to use a different tripod setup so I could get directly overhead to avoid soft focus at the top of the nautilus. I did have fun playing around with balancing the light from the table, and light from my diffused flash to get the look I desired.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407902[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 821937, member: 50197"] The club had a macro workshop today. Unfortunately, the instructor/leader was sick so it was mostly a handful of us playing around with some of the equipment/props and sharing our knowledge. It was very interesting, but "studio" macro is an entirely different animal than the field macro I've been doing. I was a little disappointed with my results, although I felt I was exposed to some very interesting techniques and had a great time. Here's a few. I really wanted to turn this into a B&W. Unfortunately I couldn't seem to get enough really black blacks, so had to settle for the color version. [ATTACH type="full"]407909[/ATTACH] This was the most interesting technique. I didn't really get the hang of it until just before I needed to turn the setup over to someone else. Got a ton of out of focus shots, and not terribly interesting ones. They had one of the machines that spits out a specified number of drops at a specified time lag after the button is pushed. It had a cable you could hook to a camera using a hot shoe connection, but it was for Canons, so........... Instead we set it for a 5 second delay then a 4 drop sequence, and counted down to 5 and hit the shutter in burst mode. I think I could do fine with a suspended Ziploc bag with a pinhole in it. I would choose a different kind of bowl and background material. The biggest issue for me, is that after getting a couple dozen good shots with this, I would probably loose interest. [ATTACH type="full" alt="_DSC5432-topaz-denoiseraw-sharpen.jpg"]407908[/ATTACH] I had high hopes with this one. I find that the hot spot and shadow in the bottom right hand corner annoy me. I could probably fix that in PS, but not sure it would be worth the effort. If I were to shoot it again, I would want to clean the light table thoroughly, and use a bigger soft box. I also would need to use a different tripod setup so I could get directly overhead to avoid soft focus at the top of the nautilus. I did have fun playing around with balancing the light from the table, and light from my diffused flash to get the look I desired. [ATTACH type="full" alt="_DSC5484-topaz-denoiseraw-sharpen.jpg"]407902[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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