well I bet the photos are such treasured memories!
From: Rondi Lightmark
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:14 AM
To: pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pov] Re: Fungi and Mushrooms
She's an animal massage therapist who knows Reiki and they are all
rescue dogs; I think she does what she can.
But it's almost as bad as herding cats, you know. ..
Last year I had her put them all in big boxes wrapped to look like
Xmas presents; that worked pretty well!
The "containing" is the hard part, because the two owners are in
the picture as well and trying to smile while
keeping a death grip on their seven darlings!
On Oct 31, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Georgia wrote:
Rondi, how about a little Rescue Remedy to calm the doggies down?
Just an idea : 0 )
Georgia
From: Rondi Lightmark
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 8:55 AM
To: pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pov] Re: Fungi and Mushrooms
Thanks for the notes about lighting, Michael! What I'm looking for
is an easy, portable, inexpensive piece of lighting for a shot
that I do with seven dogs indoors every year for a Christmas card.
So I won't be close up. The shot is in someone's small living room
and everything is always a little out of control, so whatever I
use needs to be low-key. I have used a diffuser and bounced light
off the
ceiling, but I think I need something more robust.
Is there such a thing??
Rondi
On Oct 30, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Michael Elenko wrote:
Thanks for the kind feedback compadres.
One more request: I'd like to shots that others on our POV list
are creating, so please feel free to share. It's quite OK just to
include low-res jpegs as attachments.
To answer a few questions:
1.These were taken over a few days last week after the rains had
hit. Often more mushrooms popup the next non-rainy day. I'm sure
even better opportunities will occur this week.
2. Rondi, here is the Amazon link for the ring light:
http://www.amazon.com/Macro-Flash-LED-Light-lenses/dp/B0031AQ302/
ref=sr_1_9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1320012704&sr=1-9
This is not a flash, but a modeling light that stays on. Makes
accurate exposure and focusing a little easier. LEDs are kind to
AA batteries. But the index value is very low, (not much light is
generated) so you need to be close-in. One of these days I'll
get a replacement for the Sigma which was much more powerful--but
suffered from poor quality control.
An alternative for closeups, is to use a diffuser on an external
flash, and place that off camera. I like to experiment by moving
it around at literally a few dozen different angles for some
added drama.
Indoor effectiveness depends on what your subject is. Light tents
are a lot of fun to use and pretty easy to make from PVC pipe and
some opaque white material such as scrap Tyvek (house wrap).
There are dozens of websites that show how. I've setup two
synch'd external diffused lighting sources each at a 45-degree
angle with additional lower-power lights coming in from the sides.
Note that none of these are portrait ring flashes that produce a
flat halo-ish image that comes in and out of style (I like the
look personally). I've read about the Ray Flash and the Orbis
Flash which convert your hot-shoe connected external flash to a
portrait ring flash. Not quite as good as the Alien Bees product,
but a lot cheaper.
ME
Michael Elenko
Eye In The Triangle Photography
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