Still life with Set up to follow.
Mar 25, 2019 11:27:24 #
I enjoy shooting still life photos and get many of my ideas from watching YouTube video, the latest one show mixing gels for background. I am posting my results here with the set up and Postproduction to follow.
I re-read the rules to this section and hope it stays inside its parameters. If you find it interesting and informative please let me know.
Jim
I re-read the rules to this section and hope it stays inside its parameters. If you find it interesting and informative please let me know.
Jim
Mar 25, 2019 11:29:48 #
Set Up:
I took this from a lower angle and at the corner of the black plastic leaving the point to show. Camera is a Nikon D850, setting were shutter 160 sec., ISO 64, F/10 shot with my favorite still life lens Nikon 105mm. f/2.8.
I used two flashed. Back one set at 1/8 power. Front spot flash was set at ¼ power. As you might see the front one has a snoot on it with grid. This let me narrow the light to just the flower and cork. The back one has two over lapping gels, green on left and orange on right. I use a white diffuser; wish it was a bigger diffuser because as you see it created an oval in the pitcher as the diffuser boarder was showing up.
I tethered the camera to my computer using the latest Lightroom program. Earlier versions were very buggy when using tether option.
After looking at my first shot I realized I couldn’t get enough in focus so I shot 3 different shots for the cork, neck, and flower. Then focus stacked using Helicon Focus, Photoshop crashed when attempting the focus stack, tried 3 times.
Postproduction:
Opened in Lightroom, opened shadows and whites then added a small amount of Clarity. Had to work on the center of the bottle where the black edge my diffuser was showing. To fix this I used Cloning tool and smudge tool, for the highlight spots I used spot healing brush. I still had some areas that were not smooth enough so I selected with the Lasso tool and filled with content aware.
Over at CreativeMarket.com they had some free shadow images in .png format. I ued one to create the window frame.
I took this from a lower angle and at the corner of the black plastic leaving the point to show. Camera is a Nikon D850, setting were shutter 160 sec., ISO 64, F/10 shot with my favorite still life lens Nikon 105mm. f/2.8.
I used two flashed. Back one set at 1/8 power. Front spot flash was set at ¼ power. As you might see the front one has a snoot on it with grid. This let me narrow the light to just the flower and cork. The back one has two over lapping gels, green on left and orange on right. I use a white diffuser; wish it was a bigger diffuser because as you see it created an oval in the pitcher as the diffuser boarder was showing up.
I tethered the camera to my computer using the latest Lightroom program. Earlier versions were very buggy when using tether option.
After looking at my first shot I realized I couldn’t get enough in focus so I shot 3 different shots for the cork, neck, and flower. Then focus stacked using Helicon Focus, Photoshop crashed when attempting the focus stack, tried 3 times.
Postproduction:
Opened in Lightroom, opened shadows and whites then added a small amount of Clarity. Had to work on the center of the bottle where the black edge my diffuser was showing. To fix this I used Cloning tool and smudge tool, for the highlight spots I used spot healing brush. I still had some areas that were not smooth enough so I selected with the Lasso tool and filled with content aware.
Over at CreativeMarket.com they had some free shadow images in .png format. I ued one to create the window frame.
Mar 25, 2019 11:48:38 #
Mar 25, 2019 12:08:38 #
Jim-Pops wrote:
I enjoy shooting still life photos and get many of my ideas from watching YouTube video, the latest one show mixing gels for background. I am posting my results here with the set up and Postproduction to follow.
I re-read the rules to this section and hope it stays inside its parameters. If you find it interesting and informative please let me know.
Jim
I re-read the rules to this section and hope it stays inside its parameters. If you find it interesting and informative please let me know.
Jim
Mar 25, 2019 12:32:22 #
This is gorgeous, Jim! Besides the attractive background colors and interesting lines, I am extremely fond of the angle of view 
Mar 25, 2019 12:53:25 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
This is gorgeous, Jim! Besides the attractive background colors and interesting lines, I am extremely fond of the angle of view
Thanks so much Linda. I just realized I didn't send my final edit. The above one show the shadow going through the cork. I had removed it in the final edition.
Mar 25, 2019 14:20:49 #
Mar 25, 2019 14:21:11 #
Mar 26, 2019 08:32:53 #
Nice idea and execution. I think the shots angle added to the image. I think the bottle has been the star in other still life work that you have previously posted.
Mar 26, 2019 09:20:08 #
NJFrank wrote:
Nice idea and execution. I think the shots angle added to the image. I am think the bottle has been the star in other still life work that you have previously posted.
Thank you Frank. Your correct I did use the same bottle in other post shot at different times and set up was different then.
Mar 26, 2019 19:57:30 #
Mar 27, 2019 15:30:34 #
You have explained this well and seeing your set up helps me as I'm visual and need to see the process. I also like seeing the original and then seeing what your processing rendered. This is beautiful, Jim.
Mar 30, 2019 21:20:29 #
Jim-Pops wrote:
I enjoy shooting still life photos and get many of my ideas from watching YouTube video, the latest one show mixing gels for background. I am posting my results here with the set up and Postproduction to follow.
I re-read the rules to this section and hope it stays inside its parameters. If you find it interesting and informative please let me know.
Jim
I re-read the rules to this section and hope it stays inside its parameters. If you find it interesting and informative please let me know.
Jim
Very cool image. Seeing your set up helps to see how the thing came together. Impressive.
erich
Mar 30, 2019 23:08:54 #
carlysue wrote:
You have explained this well and seeing your set up helps me as I'm visual and need to see the process. I also like seeing the original and then seeing what your processing rendered. This is beautiful, Jim.
Thank you Carlysue. I'm pleased you apreciated the visual set up.
Mar 30, 2019 23:14:15 #
ebrunner wrote:
Very cool image. Seeing your set up helps to see how the thing came together. Impressive.
erich
erich
Thank Erich. The room is quite small. I would love to have a studio where I could leave it all set up.
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