--- ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >http://www.primelensphoto.com/bulb.jpg > > > >K10D + A*85mm f1.4, Av mode, ISO 100, f11, +2EV, > >1/180, (2X)540 flashes + manual white balance. > > > >Comments welcome. > > > >-Brendan > >========== > > > > > > > Ok- how did you do that? > I missed looking at it for a while - then read > through a bunch of posts > hoping to see that you revealed. > > ann
Not as much Photoshop as you might think. I made a custom cord for it and soldered one wire to the base and taped the other to the threads (it's aluminum so you can't solder it there). I put a dimmer on the hot leg to control the output better and fed most of the cable through the white paper background. About 5-6 inches of cable is laying behind the bulb taped flat to the table top. A tiny bit of the tape needed to be cloned out in Photoshop (I actually used the healing brush tool). The only other photoshop "clean up" was to remove the reflections of the umbrellas. The tape that held the cable was enough to hold the bulb upright. The most difficult thing was the white balance. Since I was using strobes to shoot a tungsten source, I had to manually set the WB with both sources. That was tricky. Plus, I continually adjusted the luminosity of the bulb with the dimmer which changes exposure and color temperature at the same time. I basically had to wing it after a while. -Brendan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
