Brendan MacRae wrote: >--- 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. > Wow - some production!
>The most difficult thing was the white balance. > LOL ! - yeah , I can see that... > 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 > > > bracket bracket bracket, eh? anyway, a great stock shot and a fun thing to do looks like. ann > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >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
