Yet another test shot
I was just setting up “the stage” for photographing my Vostro 1400 (which, by the way, goes on sale tonight :) and fired a couple of test shots to fine-tune the off-camera strobes. My setup was relatively simple - a piece of white paper on the floor, one SB-800 3 feet away from “the stage” on my right hand side, 3 feet tall, pointing down at approx 45 degrees through a white umbrella, set at 1/16 of the power and the other SB-800 4 feet away on my left hand side pointing straight up on manual at 1/4th of its power. D300 with built in flash in commander mode at ISO 200, 1/100, f/5.6-f/7.1 with Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 at approx 40mm, 3 feet away. I tossed an empty Dove candy bag and fired a test shot… this was what came out:
August 31st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
wow! Pretty impressing!
Is this custom white balance?
August 31st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Vadim
That bag looks like it is alive! Those RGB pixel values are dead on. I left my email so keep in touch and tell everyone hello for me. I still owe you a lunch atleast, i mean i have no idea what i would be doing in life if it wasnt for you and this unix stuff :) . Tell everyone hi including, veenenga, flaws, and randy. I hope i got that right? Its been along time, and anyone else i may have forgot. And thanks to your workout routine online im starting to go back to the gym now, it kinda shook my memory and made me remember that the gym is very important and really makes you think better as well. I quit working out in 2002 because c++ was more important till now. Its time to loose some weight and focus on whats healthy, so thanks! Anyhow keep in touch.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:33 am
Galina,
I keep WB on auto most of the time, however, in post processing I use Color Points to specify White and Black. In this case I also “touched” the white paper with a “White” control point to give Capture NX converter some point of reference. Then I used Curves to adjust the blacks to my liking :)
September 1st, 2008 at 7:40 am
Bert,
Thanks for the message! I’ll be sure to say hi for you to Mark, Peggy and Randy :) Definitely let’s do lunch, whenever you manage to break away from work on one of the Fridays and I’ll see you at the gym! :-)