Hi Brendan Photos like yours encourage my creativity to experiment as well :-) Next week I should finally get my K10D - order status changes again daily now - and want to try some table top stills to make myself familiar with the new Pentax body. Well done, I like it. Do I see a scratch on the glass of the bulb right to "the fire" ? greetings Markus
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Sullivan Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 4:04 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO - dim bulb Brendan, A late comment, but a wonderful picture. Remindes me of some of he Doc Edgerton shots... Regards, Bob S. (an old techie) On 2/25/07, Brendan MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
