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Category Archives: Lighting tests
Nikon Speedlight umbrella test
When I decided to start playing with Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) I took this series of photographs to try and understand the difference between a shoothrough umbrella and a reflective one.
I also used this test to learn how to use the Commander mode on my D300 to change the power settings of the Speedlights.
SB-800 on left into 32 inch Photogenic white umbrella: SB-600 on right through 48 inch Wescott umbrella. Controlled by D300 Commander mode.
- Top half of photo: both at half power
- Bottom half of photo: Both at full power.
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$20 Homemade Beauty Dish
My $20 (+15) home made beauty dish.
14″ garden bowl from Home Depot, 12 ounce Tupperware container with the bottom cut out and a 3″ concave mirror in its place.
The additional mod I’ve made was the attachment of a Photogenic ring to the back of the dish. As add another $15 for the complete project.
The blue tape is to mask the paint transition touch up. It has been suggested that the interior of the beauty dish could be painted gold or silver to produce a more flattering effect.
The last photo is the result taken with homemade beauty dish. I now use it in about half of my portrait work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/byrkdauph/sets/72157603903569410/ for full size photos
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Nikon D300 & SB-800 Speedlight Flash Diffusion Test
On camera flash photography has always challenged me. I learned photography, in West Germany during the early ‘70s, using natural light only, black and white film and developed my own prints. My first experience, in the early ‘80s, with a flash gun was a reunion of flight school classmates and our families. We paraded the kids through the living room, onesies, twosies, you know the drill, and I took whole family photos too. The garish, over exposed pictures with that damn hard edged shadow (like the top center picture) was embarrassing when the color prints arrived. Who needs a flash? Not a REAL photographer anyway; so, back to natural light for more than 2 decades.
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D300 Picture Control File Test
A test of the 4 included picture modes included with the D300 and 4 downloadable Picture Control Files; the 3 D2X modes and Ken Rockwell’s PCF.
JPEGs right out of the camera, just labeled and resized for here. Settings the same for all shots.
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180)
Aperture: f/6.7
Focal Length: 85 mm
WB = Auto
To MY eyes on MY monitor, the D2Xmode1 comes closest to the colors on the actual painted wooden duck , Standard is close. Again, that conclusion is based on MY eyes on MY monitor.
Lighting with a SB-800 and SB-600.
cut and paste for 1412 by 1062 size.
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