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The boa and the bulb

  • seanmcfoto
    Member

    After finally getting the card back, here’s a quick shot from yesterday:

    Again shot with the ringbulb.. f4 1/160 ISO 400.

    For those wondering about the bulb, it’s a circular ceiling bulb. I took the ballast and start out of a light fitting and put it in a box. Then attached the 4 way light fitting via long cable.
    Retouching was only a quicky job, I’ll go back over it when I decide what one I actually like!!!

    Alan Rossiter
    Participant

    Whoooaa! Photography Blue Peter style.

    I’m not into model shooting but this is excellent. Magazine cover excellent!

    Alan.

    GrahamB
    Participant

    Great shot Sean, now post a shot of the lighting setup and
    a tutorial on how to make it. :D

    seanmcfoto
    Member

    I should’ve taken shots when I was making it, Graham.. It’s not so hard anyhow!

    Here’s an older picture of it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanmcfoto/205726605/
    this is from the back, where I’ve mounted it on foamcore to shine some of the light back onto the face.
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    GrahamB
    Participant

    Nice little project for a wet Sunday.
    Very cool

    randomway
    Member

    Excellent picture!

    I thought about this ringlight earlier and read some diy articles and howtos, but I don’t really do portraits, so there is no motivation to spend time on it. I think, these guys have something like your setup. http://www.studiolighting.net/

    seanmcfoto
    Member

    They have one using a bunch of bulbs. I’ve seen a few variations on this.
    My thing came from the work of Stephen Eastwood. I’d seen his stuff all over the place, DPReview, ModelMayhem etc. I liked his ringbulb stuff so I asked him about it. He uses Kino flo bulbs, but they’re hard to get here, so I just used one from a local electrical wholesaler.
    I’m on the lookout for a daylight balanced bulb though as have to do a lot of colour correction work with this one. Depending on where in the 50Hz cycle you start your shot, the colour is different, so even batch applying White Balance correction in Lightroom doesn’t help..
    FWIW check out http://www.stepheneastwood.com

    DJH
    Participant

    What a superb shot – top class … I love everything about it

    Expresbro
    Participant

    VERY striking image. When I opened the page I went…Woah!!

    I really like it too… even the strange catchlights from that ringlight…like little polo mints in her eyes… :D

    seanmcfoto
    Member

    oops, didn’t see the replies!
    Cheers.
    I’ve a few more shoots and shots from this session I should put up..

    hammerman
    Participant

    Excellent lighting…heard and interview with this guy he uses something similar…think I got to look into this.
    Anyhow here is his site:
    http://www.ricdiaz.com

    H..

    seanmcfoto
    Member

    Nothing to see yet :(

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