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The Lockdown Logs #56

The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: May 28th 2020

Coalport Figurine Chromakey

In the Pod today, playing with a small green screen set-up, to see how the light works best. I’ve set a small Coalport Lady Figurine on a table, with a green-screen background.  There’s a D-Lite just behind my right shoulder and natural light coming from the left of the figure.  The D-Lite is set low, not to be a key-light, but to simply reduce any shadow cast by the Coalport figure.

I’m using the Fujifilm X-T2, with a Nikon 50mm manual focus lens and the camera set for focus peaking.  F=50mm, f/5.6 @ 1/60th sec on ISO200.

Here’s the result:

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Here’s the set-up: Continue reading The Lockdown Logs #56 →

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The Lockdown Logs #52

The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: May 22nd 2020

I’m still working out the best settings for lighting in the socially isolated Studio-Pod.  Here’s what it looks like at the minute:-

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I’m sitting behind the desk, looking at the pencil-mug in the light tent, through the Fujifilm ‘Cam Remote’ App on the iPhone.  Here’s what I’m seeing (Although obviously, I’ve processed the image)…

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Fujifilm X-T2, with Nikon 50mm lens, manual focus with focus peaking.  F=50mm, f/8 @ 1/125th sec on ISO160.

 

 

 

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The Lockdown Logs #51

The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: May 21st 2020

The Ding-Thing!

Second photo of the day, and I’m still setting up the lights in the Studio-Pod, so I’ve two Elinchrom D-Lites, one suspended on a ‘goose-neck’ thing, and fitted with a Softbox, the other on a stand, and fitted with a white, shoot-through umbrella.  This old bell has been around our various business premises for many years, so I shot it using the two lights. I set it into an open light tent, to control the light around it, and give a white backdrop.  Used the Fujifilm X-T2, fitted with a Nikon 50mm manual focus lens, and focus-peaking on the camera.

Bell

So, Fujifilm X-T2, F=50mm, f/8 @ 1/125th sec on ISO400.

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The Lockdown Logs #49

The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: May 20th 2020

 

There’s a Dobbies flower pot thingy outside the Cocoon.  Apparently it’s been there since Christmas, and I’m only seeing it now!  Anyway, here’s a macro shot of some of the wee flowers in the pot-thing.

I shot it with the Fujifilm X-T30, with a 200mm Macro Nikon Lens, F=200mm, f/5.6, 1/1000th sec on ISO3200.  Manual focus with focus peaking.

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It looked quite surreal, so in post-processing, I added a watercolour canvas effect…

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Lockdown Logs, Still Life

The Lockdown Logs #48

The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: May 19th 2020

Not much happening in or around the Cocoon today, so all I could manage was a Fir Cone that I’d found one day while out on a walk.  I photographed it in the light-tent, with one Elinchrom  studio flash light behind my right shoulder.  Fujifilm X-T30 with Nikon 200mm Macro lens.  F=200mm, f/8 @ 1/60th sec on ISO125.

 

Fir Cone