Day 20 - Three Cords and the Truth

Guillermo Cardoso has added a photo to the pool:

20/365 It is amazing how much music has changed over the years. Nowadays it seems that everything is fixed with pro tools or some other kind of software. Gone are the days where a band was recognized based on pure talent rather than looks.

Real music meant going to a concert and enjoying a live band rather than being glued to your TV watching week after week people embarrassing themselves with a lack of talent and no self esteem. And while I believe some of them have talent, I also believe in paying your dues as an artist instead of just being thrown into the limelight where they will fade faster than match on fire.

They say country music is three cords and the truth and that's the reason while it still thrives. Gone are the days of music when music used to sooth your soul.

Info: Canon 7D | 24-70mm @ 38mm (ƒ/2.8) | ƒ9 | ISO 400 | 1/125s
Strobist: Canon 580EXII on shoot through umbrella camera right, full power

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snapshot chandra has added a photo to the pool:

lumy 3 camera left, sb800 manual at 1/16 shot CLS style. black foam board.
thyme bundle from this week's CSA.

Selfportrait

MKL.S Photography has added a photo to the pool:

Modèle : Moi
Lieu : Jemeppe-Sur-Meuse, Liège (Belgique)
Strobist : Canon Speedlite 430EX II + softbox + Cactus Trigger V4 à ma droite.

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Michael Salvato © www.michaelsalvato.be
Facebook © www.facebook.com/mkls.photography

Castanheiro

heidertorres has added a photo to the pool:

Colhendo as Castanhas-do-Pará

Argus Seventy-five

Dave Zombie has added a photo to the pool:

Connor's first non-digital camera.

photoblog.prestonpro.com

Strobist:
Flash in umbrella camera left, triggered with cactus v2.
Flash back and to the right, optical slave.

Piss Off

CEBImagery.com has added a photo to the pool:

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Model: Cornell Stewart

Camera:
Shutter 1/200
f/10
focal:50mm
ISO 200

Strobist:

2 Bowen Mono lights w reflectors aimed at backwall camera left and right
2 v-flats right and left side of model
1 ab 1600 in small photoflex octa boomed on axis

Post Highlights:
Tone-mapping via Nik Color EFX 4
Raw conversion and final tweaks in LR4
Duo-toning and most everything else in CS5
Detail enhancement via Topaz Detail

2012 Hyundai Genesis - Front

brijcharan has added a photo to the pool:

Group Model Shoot at Photographika Studio, Puerto Rico

prcrash has added a photo to the pool:

Model: Ivette Nazario (MM #611323)

Strobist Info: AB800 Camera Left gelled Red, AB400 Camera Right gelled green - Both accent lights behind the model, flagged to stop flare. WL1600 Camera Right, through a 22" Beauty Dish as the Key Light.

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EvanSimpkins has added a photo to the pool:

So this was my first time doing a composite photo with a full body! I usually just do the top half, but I felt like challenging myself.

I dont think its perfect, not at all really, but Im pleased with how it came out. Critique? Suggestions?

Strobist: AB1600 thru Octa camera right. AB800 thru BD camera left.

Shiny Machine

StacyMcCants has added a photo to the pool:

Three strobes. Unbrella key light overhead, small unbrella fill, one behind band for rim and shadow.

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trbrooker has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist info:

Profoto D1 with silver/white reflective umbrella on camera left. Black panel on camera right.

D800-Card Eater

djh65 has added a photo to the pool:

White Lightning 1800, 1/8 - beauty dish camera left.

Not a Swimmer

Reihman .. crazy busy has added a photo to the pool:

Found 3 bats in our pool luckily we just set up the other day and havn'te added clorine yet. This guy was drying off on my tail gate and stayed put while I went and grabbed lights
- 580 exii w/ ring light on camera
- 430 exii (slaved) on ground pointed up for backlight

meet Spot

Ian_Arneson has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist: Nikon SB910 inside attic @ 1/64 gelled green fired via PWII.

Papa-mosca / Jumper Spider

rrssantos has added a photo to the pool:

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Conheço desde criança esta aranha como Papa-mosca, acho que depende da região.
: )
Strobist Info:
480exii at left (1/32)
18-55mm
image cropped

Subaru Impreza Sport 2

Mariosdog has added a photo to the pool:

www.yoshidazaiphotos.com

Bare SB-600, camera right, triggered through CLS.

Canon Speedlite 580ex II

Edwin M Escobar has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist:

Crosslit with 2 bare 430ex ii's at 1/16 power
RF602 Triggers

Lighting Set Up For D7000

DextDee has added a photo to the pool:

Catwoman

AOJ has added a photo to the pool:

En este Salón del Cómic pude escaparme un rato con Marta (gracias por dedicarme un ratillo!) a hacer algunas fotos en exteriores. Justo al lado del recinto ferial, encontré una zona con unas escaleras, muy del rollo urbano, en las que creo que salió bastante bien esta improvisada sesión que veréis.

Eso sí, lleno de guiris mirando y sacando fotos, y gente interrumpiendo para fotografiarse con ella o cruzando por ahí, y algunos soltando impertinencias U_U. Así que solamente puedo deciros que aguantó como una campeona :D

Strobist info: Pues como en todas las fotos del Salón, el Metz-48 a potencia variada (en esta parte de sesión recuerdo que especialmente a potencias altas), mediante paraguas difusor.

Christie Stewart

Ryan Wyllie has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist: "Ghetto Hurley" setup with 4x SB-900's. Triggerd with an SU-800 commander.

Nikon D800, 85mm F1.4 lens.

Settings: 1/125th shutter, ISO 100, F5.6

Kristy

Calvin J. has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist Info:

Camera Settings: Nikon D3S with Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8.g lens with a Singh Ray Vari filter attached, Aperture f/2.8, Shutter Speed 3200, ISO 1000

Another shot of Kristy from the wedding I shot last weekend

Strobe Settings: AlienBee 1600 shot into a Paul C. Buff 64 inch soft silver parabolic camera left

Strobes triggered remotely using PocketWizard AC3 zone controller with PocketWizard MiniTT1 transmitter and FlexTT5 transceivers

© Calvin James 2012

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Giovanni Gori has added a photo to the pool:

Model: Romina G.
Make-up and hairstyling: Max Moretto

Strobist
Background: Ranger Quadra RX
Key : Elinchrom Style RX in a Octa, camera left
Fill: Elinchrom Style RX in a Softbox, camera right
Triggered by Elinchrom Skyport WIFI and iPhone (it works!!!)


Post production:
Lightroom 4
Photoshop CS6
Press "L" to see it large or View On White

| Nikon photographer | Portfolio | On 500px | Facebook |

© Giovanni Gori
This image is copyrighted. Do not use without my explicit permission

My duck

1808 Photography has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist: Elinchrom 540 camera top left on 1/8th power, Elinchrom 540 camera to right on 1/2 power, both in softbox, silver reflector below right softbox, white reflector camera front right

The boys doing their best mafia impression in front of the italian villa Hacienda Sarria in Waterloo

andreas_schneider has added a photo to the pool:

22" beauty dish on Alien Bees Einstein 640 camera right
Rf-602 wireless remote triggers

oc_layos has added a photo to the pool:

Shooting infro: Dynalite MH2050 strobe shot through MOLA white demi 22.5" camera left.
Model: Megan Dunn
Makeup: Marylu Gomez
Designer:
Hillary Des Moineaux
Owner/Deisgner of Hillary de Moineaux Couture
www.etsy.com/shop/VoleedeMoineaux

Cirko De Mente

Owen Behan has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist:
6 Heads:
60" Softlighter, camera left, as key.
1x6' Profoto strip bank and 46" Softlighter L&R behind model for kick.
2 Heads w zoom reflectors L&R behind model to light smoke.
Elinchrom head w small softbox w/o baffle lighting background.
Triggered w Cactus V5s.

Justyna in the backyard

Joel Bedford has added a photo to the pool:

Justyna photographed on June 24th, 2012. Strobist info: Rotalux mini deep octa 70 cm, Elinchrom 250Ws on stand, Canon 5D MKII, 24-105mm L

Tactics

Photog°Scott has added a photo to the pool:

Website || Pinterest

Please, no banners / 'seen in ___ group' images.

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Strobist Info

1 LP120 || overhead || key light for board || 1/8 power || Honl Travler8 Portable Softbox

1 Vivitar 285 HV || direct camera left || model key, aimed at face || 1/8 power || 1/8'' honeycomb grid

*All triggered via Pocket Wizards.
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“Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have." - Saul Alinsky

One thing that chess always taught me was the law of sacrifice. On the game board, you can move your pieces anywhere. But by moving them to point place, they can't be in other places. It's a choice, but it's also a sacrifice.

I really wish more people were realistic about that life expectation. "You can do anything you want!" is a phrase I heard from well-meaning teachers, parents and mentors when I was growing up.

And it's true: You can do almost anything you want, but you can't do everything you want.

Choices are sacrifices.

How we maneuver as a result of those choices and the resources at hand -- that's tactics.

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nextelbuddy has added a photo to the pool:

Testing out Joel Grimes style lighting.
dont have gridded softboxes yet so instead used 2 shoot through umbrellas behind subject on 1/4 power (flash) and one socked 17 inch BD @ 1/16
3 light edgy setup or at least my attempt at it.
hopefully i can get softboxes soon and a larger BD and people lol

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Jarskog has added a photo to the pool:

A beautiful sunset with my daughter Tindra, 4 years old, as model. When I saw this nice red sky I rushed into the house and "dragged" her out on the law. She was brushing her teeth but for me this was a more important task. My wife did not approve fully to my way of prioritize.

Strobist: One EX580 through white umbrella high to left of cam. One YN560 low right with straw snoot toward her face. All triggered by PWIII.

Christina

Dawnie Pawnie has added a photo to the pool:

2 x Stripboxes left and right in front....Reflector below...Octabox above.....Barndoors on b/g...Softbox 45 degrees behind right.

Blitz Gatineau U10

Dominique Pelletier has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist info: two 430EX flashes at camera left and right - left flash is projected by a 60inches umbrella, right flash is through a shoot-thru umbrella.

D800 - Full Frame Glass Conversion

djh65 has added a photo to the pool:

With the move to the D800 away from the D200 had to get rid of some DX glass an replace with FX glass. I did this on the cheap.

Strobist Info: White Lighning beauty dish camera left 1/8, SB900 camera right through an unbrella 1/32 and two Lumipro 160 right and left for the background. PW triggers

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Scooby53 has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist: Steller Extreme 300w large softbox 100/100cm above subject. Nikon D5100 shutter 1/200 - f9 - iso 100

Steve Clayton has added a photo to the pool:

Exposure set to sky, 430 speedlite 1/4 power below right

The guns are a blazing with this young man

andreas_schneider has added a photo to the pool:

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6' stripe softbox with grid on 250W strobe model left
6' stripe softbox with grid on 250W strobe model right
Rf-602 wireless remote triggers

Maria's Senior Portraits

rcarlson80 has added a photo to the pool:

Prospect Park Redlands Ca. Senior Portraits.
Strobist:
Alien Bee B800 front with parabolic umbrella @1/16 power. About 3 feet away.

Faceless

ܮFotoJota has added a photo to the pool:

...or, how to steal your own identity.

Strobist: Bare Sb-24, fired at camera angle

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dMad-Photo has added a photo to the pool:

Era el concepto, la cabeza en el congelador... ;)
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That was the matter, head inside the freezer. Not literally, but this is the concept, isn't it?

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erkua has added a photo to the pool:

[strobist setup]
[430exii]-(105mm@1/4) at 12h
[camera]
Canon EOS 5D MkII
[camera setup]
ISO100, 1/200, f8
[lens]
Canon EF 100mm f2.8
[trigger]
Cactus V5

More information

Twitter: @erkua

Facebook: erkua photography

selfie

hyimted has added a photo to the pool:

when you're trying to learn flash, and nobody is around to model, you get pretty bored taking selfies .... and end up making faces like this!

strobist: sb-900 > shoot through umbrella, via CLS (manual), camera left. forgot what power setting though.

fish tail

abellanto has added a photo to the pool:

lens: canon 50mm f1.8
strobist info: YN 560 II behind fish tank through blue tshirt

Pool dwelling @ Torii station

Okinawa Nature Photography has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist info -
Nikon d90 11-16mm tokina
1 Yn 560 strobe handheld
Yomitan - Okinawa -jp

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julie.mixon has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist Info:
Canon 580 EXII
Triggered with PW Flex and Mini
Ezybox Softbox

Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
www.juliemixon.com/blog

Tigz Lace 1

wme has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist info:
2 230W Hylow with barn doors on backdrop.
600W Hylow with gridded beauty dish cam left.

Darkness

123ben has added a photo to the pool:

The racer

rifqi dahlgren has added a photo to the pool:

LP160 with cto gel through trigrip from high camera right.

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medium121 has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist: Vivitar 285hv to the right at 1/2 power

Zenza Bronica SQ AI with Polaroid Back

P.Höcherl has added a photo to the pool:

Please press "L".

Pic taken with a Nikon D300 by the use of a light tent and a Metz (optically triggered) from behind, left a YN465 and right a YN560, triggered by RF603.

If you like my photo feel free to visit my Homepage with interactive 360 degree panoramic photos or follow me on Twitter, thanks.

Testing out my new softbox.

Jamier Adams has added a photo to the pool:

Just got this soft box today and decided to test it out on my dad. What do you guys think so far?
To view more photos press like===> Jamier Adams Photography
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Strobe Info: Yongnuo Flash Speedlite Yn-460 with color gel shooting from the left through a Neweer 60x60 softbox