Flower Photography

I did some flower pictures at the local public garden. I used my Canon 7D with a Canon 100 mm macro lens and a Canon MR-14EX macro ring lite.

FLASHPOINT eVOLV 200

I have two of the small SMDV soft boxes, these units are specifically designed for speed lights. You can use them with the 360’s, 180’s and the 200’s by changing the back plate but it’s a hassle. So, I went to YouTube looking for a way to mount a eVOLV 200 in the 21” and 24” SMDV soft boxes. It works quite well, just remove the cold shoe, attach a small ball head to the 200 and mount to the SMDV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygBA3Wmj_WA&t=1s

 

Family Shoot

I did an impromptu family photo shoot yesterday with a friend of mine. We are both school bus drivers and trying to get ready for the school year. I used my Flashpoint Xplor 600 and a 32” beauty dish.

More Head Shots

I did a Head Shot Session with a local actress today.

Head Shots

I want to start doing head shots and this is the setup I have designed based on the equipment I have.

Layout and equipment schedule for my head shoot setup.

Exposure: ISO 200, Shutter speed 1/200, Aperture f/8

Main light, Godox AD360 at f/8

Background light, Godox V850 at f/5.6

Hair light, Godox V850 at f/5.6

Two 40” and one 30” reflectors adjusted to f/5.6

Pull back photo:

Controlling the light

For this photo, I placed the subject in the center of a room. With my camera in manual mode, I set the ISO to 100, the shutter speed to 200 and took a series of test pictures at different apertures until the LCD monitor was totally black, in this case f/8. I then set three speedlites close around the subject and adjuster their power to f/8.  

DYI macro set-up

Is anyone interested in Macro photography? Here is a DYI project for you. Digging through my junk drawer to day I found two small flash units, don’t know why I originally bought them, but Amazon sells them for $12.50 each (Vivitar SF-3000). I also found two sets of Cowboy Studio radio triggers (MPT-04), each set has one transmitter and two receiver’s and Cowboy Studio sells then for $21.00 each set. I bought them when I first got into off camera flash. Anyway, I put the small flash units and the radio triggers together with a broken yard stick, some nuts and bolts, and a couple of left over extension plates to make a macro flash setup. The camera is a Canon 7D and a Canon 100mm macro lens.