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Shots of my Sailor Professional Gear

 

Thanks for looking!

 

http://www.pbase.com/kelvinphoto/image/47272468.jpg

 

http://www.pbase.com/kelvinphoto/image/47272469.jpg

 

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http://www.pbase.com/kelvinphoto/image/47273021.jpg

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Kelvin

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Great pics of a nice pen. Thanks for sharing. Any chance of a full review soon? TIA

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Those are stunning pics Kelvin. Did you take those yourself? Beautiful pen, classic design.

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Hi Kelvin,

 

Some more drool-evoking pictures, wow1 Thanks again for sharing!

 

Can you tell us maybe a little more about the techniques and gear (pun intended :lol:) used?

 

TIA, warm regards, Wim

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Thank you for the kind comments everyone :)

 

southpaw, will do as soon as I run in the pen and tried more pens to make a proper comparison.

 

Leslie, yes I did. I'm also an avid photog so I cannot resist taking photos of things of beauty :)

 

wimg, for gear, I use an EOS300D. The lense for this case is the trusty Tamron SP90mm f2.8 Macro Di. I use a 2 flash setup - the 580EX on the left (with cable attachment from hotshoe) and the 420EX on wireless slave on the right. The backdrop used was bought from an art shop.

 

For my mini studio, I made 2 DIY softboxes... just cartons and tracing paper for the 2 flashes.

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Thank you for the kind comments everyone :)

 

southpaw, will do as soon as I run in the pen and tried more pens to make a proper comparison.

 

Leslie, yes I did. I'm also an avid photog so I cannot resist taking photos of things of beauty :)

 

wimg, for gear, I use an EOS300D. The lense for this case is the trusty Tamron SP90mm f2.8 Macro Di. I use a 2 flash setup - the 580EX on the left (with cable attachment from hotshoe) and the 420EX on wireless slave on the right. The backdrop used was bought from an art shop.

 

For my mini studio, I made 2 DIY softboxes... just cartons and tracing paper for the 2 flashes.

Wow, that sounds like quite the setup. Any chance you could take a picture of it? I'd love to see how what the whole setup looks like.

 

Again, beautiful pictures.

 

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thanks Brian. i also collect toys and i used the same setup with which i shoot my toys for these pens...

 

here is how the setup looks like...

 

http://www.pbase.com/kelvinphoto/image/41934342.jpg

 

http://www.pbase.com/kelvinphoto/image/41934343.jpg

 

the 580EX goes into the left softbox. hope this helps :)

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Love that set-up, Kelvin! :P Looks similar to jury rigged set ups that I used to come up with back east in the U.S.

 

Too many think that one must run out and buy everything to do photography like that. Experimentation and available material will produce photos every bit the equal of the slick commercial set-ups. B)

 

Nice work!

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Thanks Roger :)

 

This setup has limitations but I feel that one can produce good results if one knew how to work around these limitations. Here's an example of a toy photo I took with this exact setup...

 

http://www.pbase.com/kelvinphoto/image/46345531.jpg

 

Btw, since that last time I took a shot of that setup, I've laced the insides of the cartons with aluminium foil.

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Love that set-up, Kelvin! :P Looks similar to jury rigged set ups that I used to come up with back east in the U.S.

 

Too many think that one must run out and buy everything to do photography like that. Experimentation and available material will produce photos every bit the equal of the slick commercial set-ups. B)

 

Nice work!

I've done something similar using a cone of white paper around the item with a halogen light and the flash on the outside. Good to see that I'm on the right direction to get good photographs

 

 

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K H, cute avatar :)

 

if you're using halogens, you may be able to get even lighting but you may find a bit of trouble if you want to use directional light to emphasize textures imho :) looking forward to see your work.

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K H, cute avatar :)

 

if you're using halogens, you may be able to get even lighting but you may find a bit of trouble if you want to use directional light to emphasize textures imho :) looking forward to see your work.

I think I have a Churchill in the photos section I did with an early version of the light cone.

 

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do u have a shot of your setup?

My setup consisted of 3 pieces of paper taped together to form a cylinder and then a halogen lamp net to it. very basic but a good place to start from.

 

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Hi lanatir,

 

Just wanted to thank you for sharing that, including the pics of your setup. I am busy building something similar (once the mess from the flooding is sorted out), be it with a couple of daylight lamps, but it is always good to hear I am going in the right direction!

 

Warm regards, Wim

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Waoo... Very professional looking pictures lanatir ! Thanks for sharing, and welcome to FPN !

 

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