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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D mark iii & 100L - Heineken product shot

« on: April 29, 2012, 07:40:53 PM »

Not as good as the above images, breaking in my new 100mm f/2.8 L, recycling my St. Peters Organic Ale bottle. 5Dmark3 as well.

Its an amazing lens, you will love it. In my opinion is the sharpest lens i have and the colors come out great

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D mark iii & 100L - Heineken product shot

« on: April 29, 2012, 03:30:18 PM »

here is another shot with the same combo


Vodka Tonic by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark iii - some buttlerfly shots with the 100L macro

« on: April 27, 2012, 09:02:15 AM »

I'd like to get better with my macro.  What settings were used to shoot these?  Did you use a tripod?

you can check all the setting on my flickr page if you look through the metadata. but mostly I was around F11 underexposing the background by 2 or 3 stops and lighting the butterfly with a speed light on ETTL on an underexposed setting (it varied from picture to picture). all the shots were hand held

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5D MK III Sample Images / 5D mark iii & 100L - Heineken product shot

« on: April 26, 2012, 08:36:47 PM »

here is my attempt at an advertising product shot... constructive criticism is welcomed but keep in mind that I'm just starting out with studio photography, this is my second attempt at a product shot


Heineken Beer 2 by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark iii - some buttlerfly shots with the 100L macro

« on: April 26, 2012, 08:52:41 AM »

Very nice, but what's that banding I see on the top shot?  On the left.

That is actually a fence that was in the background, it not the camera

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5D MK III Sample Images / 5D Mark iii - some buttlerfly shots with the 100L macro

« on: April 25, 2012, 04:26:54 PM »

flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/castillophotodesign/


untitled shoot-3506.jpg by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr


untitled shoot-3359.jpg by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr


untitled shoot-3401.jpg by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr


untitled shoot-3498.jpg by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr


untitled shoot-3379.jpg by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark III with 100mm macro 2.8L

« on: April 25, 2012, 09:50:54 AM »

If it wouldn't be giving away any trade secrets, where are your strobes positioned?  +/- 90 degrees?  Are they pointed at the subject or bouncing off the background?  Any snoots/grids on the strobes?  Man, I'm nosy!

I have a colorful background and I have two strobes on each side pointed directly towards it. so technically all the light is bouncing from the background

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark III with 50mm 1.2 High Speed Photography

« on: April 25, 2012, 07:59:59 AM »

Great shot!  The camera club I'm in had a workshop that included doing a similar shot only with strawberries splashing into a clear glass bowl.  The strobes were automatically fired by a flash trigger available from http://www.hiviz.com.

That is awesome! really good shot. I just started doing this kind of photography as well, I liked how you used a couple strawberries instead of just one and the splash is great

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark III with 100mm macro 2.8L

« on: April 25, 2012, 07:55:22 AM »

I definately wanna get into this type of photography. Must take alot of practice to nail this type of shot. Awesome shot,

Is not that hard, you just gotta give it a couple tries until you get a good shot. Here is another shot i took that same day

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D mark ii with 100mm L Macro

« on: April 24, 2012, 10:18:22 PM »

That looks nice. Are the bubbles from entering the water or does the orange expel those?

I didn't use water for this one. I used club soda, thats where all the bubbles are from

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5D MK III Sample Images / 5D mark iii with 100mm L Macro

« on: April 23, 2012, 07:37:45 PM »

flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/castillophotodesign/


Orange Macro by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr

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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 II L USM

« on: April 21, 2012, 05:30:58 PM »

Pine Glades Lake B&W by CastilloPhotoDesign, on Flickr

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark III with 50mm 1.2 High Speed Photography

« on: April 19, 2012, 11:50:23 PM »

Those look crunchy! 160th shutter is high speed? I was expecting 1/2000th or something. It turned out awesome looking! Your produce must be organic

the shutter speed doesn't matter, I didn't freeze the motion with the shutter speed. I froze motion with the speed lights. thanks though!

I meant 1/2000.
I have never shot anything like this so i was curious and in a way asking about the technique. If you take the time to elaborate on how you set up this shot it would be fun to learn.

It was a set up with two speed lights and pocket wizards. One was flashing from the top left corner and the other one was flashing bottom right corner, I also had a white reflector under the tank to try and bounce some light up and illuminate the bottom of the peppers. both speed lights were set to 1/4 of the power in manual mode and i used a small diffuser for the flash on the bottom.

to focus i just held the peppers where i thought they were going to land, focused, and then switched it to manual focus so that the camera doesn't hunt for focus every time i drop the peppers. I used F/14 to give me some leeway since the peppers don't always land in the same spot. I used  ISO of 400 so that I don't have to use the higher power setting on the flash because they don't stop motion as well when they are set at a higher power settings.

hope this helps, let me know if you have other questions!

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark III with 50mm 1.2 High Speed Photography

« on: April 19, 2012, 11:27:25 PM »

Great!

I have some technical questions, if I may...
Is it in fish tank?
Is it a water?
Do you pay attention on the water (assumption) temperature?

Yes, I did it in a 10 gallon fish tank. I filled it up with tap water, i don't think the temperature matters

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark III with 50mm 1.2 High Speed Photography

« on: April 19, 2012, 08:29:24 PM »

Those look crunchy! 160th shutter is high speed? I was expecting 1/200th or something. It turned out awesome looking! Your produce must be organic

the shutter speed doesn't matter, I didn't freeze the motion with the shutter speed. I froze motion with the speed lights. thanks though!