Jonathan, love these, especially the lighting, and especially this last one. What exactly is your lighting, and what kind of table/surface is that? I assume that's a simply cloth background as well?
I hardly do still-life because I hate setting up lights but I need to do more of it.
Bryan,
Thanks. The lighting is as simple as you can get: just one 250W Smith-Victor photo flood lamp aimed up at the wool blanket I'm using as a backdrop. The candlesticks are sitting on a shiny piece of plastic sheeting I had left over from installing a tub surround in our bathroom a few years ago. If the lighting were more complicated than this I wouldn't do many still lifes, either.
You can see the single light on the floor below the table:
Jonathan
P.S. Big thanks to my wife for letting me take over the living room for a few days.
8x10 Cambo Legend
300mm Caltar II N - F11
Single Novatron flash head
X-Ray film - 80 ISO
D76 full strength
6 minutes @ 68 degrees F.
Same lighting, different arrangement of candlesticks.
Pacemaker Speed Graphic, Zeiss 15cm f/4.5 uncoated Tessar @ f/8, 4x5 T-Max 100 (expired 1999).
Jonathan
Nice work, Jonathan!
Thank you kindly!Originally Posted by cjbroadbent
J.
Antique Lamp, 2012
Sinar P, 200mm Nikkor M
4x5 TMY, Diafine
Focusing on Soft Focus technique. SF lenses are not easy to use. I"m still getting the hang of it.
Verito 14" on 4x5
Kodak 305 on 8x10 Xray
Verito 14" on 8x10 Xray
George
Hurrah for Xray film. A God Send for us po' folks who still want to shoot 8x10. It's all I shoot now in 8x10.
8x10 Cambo Legend
300mm Caltar II N - F11
Single Novatron flash head
X-Ray film - 80 ISO
D76 full strength
6 minutes @ 68 degrees F.
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