Late nights [setup]

I used two work lights one behind.

And I forgot to take a picture of the second light. But its on the left, and on top of a dolly.

Now, I actually used two pictures.
This one was the first shot at 1 sec.
I really liked the way the light wrapped around the T.V., but the screen was just white.

So, I took a second one at 1/60sec. It seemed to capture the "snow" or static best.

Then I just cropped the snow and layered it over the first picture(after I edited it..the first picture.)

And lastly I used the smudge tool to get rid of any blemishes.

All in all it took me about two hours from conception of the idea to post.

The water ripple setup

I stuck a paper plate with about 3-4oz of water on a large speaker.

I used three work lights with no diffusion.

Then I joined the wires of the speaker to a plug-in of an old pair of headphones for the length, but this would also work if you don't have wire in-puts on the back of your stereo.

Then of course you need the music.

I'd advise something with a lot of bass.

Turn the volume all the way up, and hope you don't disturb neighbors.


When you take the picture it will look something like this.


To get the colors, adjust the temp in PS or LR

The Fanta Setup

Here's the original setup

Now, here's my setup.

A ladder to stand on.

Two saw horses cause the portable work bench is currently indisposed.

That really awesome and totally handy laminated piece of of partial board.

I took the clamp off of the work light and fed the cord through a cardboard stand.

I'm using a 75w frosted GE reveal light bulb. I've always had good luck with these particular lights bulbs.

Now for the blue filter. I used a air conditioner filter.
(a clean one!)

Then I stuck the light in a box which had the end removed and a door cut in the side.

A closer look.

Then I stuck the filter on top of the box.

I placed books on filter to lift the see-through box. This helps disperse the light shining through the see-through box.

Then I placed the see-through box on top.

I filled the box with ice and had a lovely assistance hold a piece of poster board over the box to bounce the light back onto the can.

Studio

I've officially move my studio from my tiny room to the garage.

What really happened was I couldn't fit what I needed in my room so I did it out in the garage.

1. I stuck one of my mom's black tablecloths in the rafters of our garage with 2 "A" clamps
This is my backdrop.

2. Laminated piece of of partial board, we had just laying around.

My table top is sitting on a portable work bench.

3. The lights I used are cheap work lights, with tracing paper in front of them.
To tone the light down

4. Then I used a piece of poster board as my white card.

The lights I used are the same in the video HERE

Which brings me to the next thing.

I found a new site off of the Strobist.

Here it is.

Its called Pro Photo Life, and it's the best site I've found so far.

He gives great advise in the beginning of the blog, of what to do if your looking into becoming a photographer.

(also the pictures above will enlarge when clicked upon)

Camera Stabilizer

I found an awesome site, Friday.

Here


From this site, I've solved my no tripod situation.

Here

The material's needed + extra nut.

How I tied mine.

The weight.

The Camera Stabilizer.

I was quite surprised, It really works, and is a rather neat little thing to have around.

Problem Solving

I've been having a problem with the lighting in my room when it comes to taking pictures.

Most of my pictures look like this.
(w/o flash)

Then others look like this.
(w/ flash)

But I have now solved my problem with aluminum foil, and card board.

You simply hold the the diffuser?/reflector? in front of the flash,

And you get...

...this.