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<blockquote data-quote="Fortkentdad" data-source="post: 600936" data-attributes="member: 24285">[ATTACH]241230[/ATTACH]Part of my &quot;getting to &quot;M&quot; with OCF&quot; project. Shot these sculptured birds. Bought them as a Christmas present for my wife from a local artist Loretta Kyle, they are done in chlorite.Shot with three OCF using Nikon's CLS and a muted on camera pop up as controller.&nbsp; Post processing with Corel Aftershop and Paintshop where I 'Niked&quot; it a bit. Here is the set up. [ATTACH]241231[/ATTACH]Your basic kitchen table - bedsheet set up.&nbsp; Put the Metz 58 in soft box, SB600 with a bounce back mod and SB700 in a small disk softbox (just to the right of the shot).&nbsp; The small LED flashlight (under the softbox) was to aid in focus when the lights were off.&nbsp; room lights reflected on the sculptures, and the focus aid light (red matrix) also showed up in reflection.&nbsp; The LED just under the softbox provided enough light to get the focus but blended in with the softbox flash so i could not detect it in the image.&nbsp; &nbsp; It is a smaller softbox I bought not that long ago.&nbsp; Liking the compact size and how a single speedlight fills it well - in this shot it appears that the light is pretty even and 'soft'.&nbsp; Flashes were manual set - no I didn't record the settings for this particular shot, working on the 'trial and error' method of exposure control.&nbsp; Most of the time I was dealing with 1/16 to 1/64th power.&nbsp; Anything close to half power this close to a shiny subject didn't work. From the EXIF I can say it was shot in Manual at f/4.5 on a Siggy 50 Art lens on a D610.&nbsp; Slowed the shutter to 1/50.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fortkentdad, post: 600936, member: 24285"] [ATTACH=CONFIG]241230._xfImport[/ATTACH] Part of my "getting to "M" with OCF" project. Shot these sculptured birds. Bought them as a Christmas present for my wife from a local artist Loretta Kyle, they are done in chlorite. Shot with three OCF using Nikon's CLS and a muted on camera pop up as controller. Post processing with Corel Aftershop and Paintshop where I 'Niked" it a bit. Here is the set up. [ATTACH=CONFIG]241231._xfImport[/ATTACH] Your basic kitchen table - bedsheet set up. Put the Metz 58 in soft box, SB600 with a bounce back mod and SB700 in a small disk softbox (just to the right of the shot). The small LED flashlight (under the softbox) was to aid in focus when the lights were off. room lights reflected on the sculptures, and the focus aid light (red matrix) also showed up in reflection. The LED just under the softbox provided enough light to get the focus but blended in with the softbox flash so i could not detect it in the image. It is a smaller softbox I bought not that long ago. Liking the compact size and how a single speedlight fills it well - in this shot it appears that the light is pretty even and 'soft'. Flashes were manual set - no I didn't record the settings for this particular shot, working on the 'trial and error' method of exposure control. Most of the time I was dealing with 1/16 to 1/64th power. Anything close to half power this close to a shiny subject didn't work. From the EXIF I can say it was shot in Manual at f/4.5 on a Siggy 50 Art lens on a D610. Slowed the shutter to 1/50. [/QUOTE]

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