Natalie's Tent

Natalie's Tent, originally uploaded by Carl's Photography.

Taken with a Nikon D80.

* Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200) [+]
* Aperture: f/2 [+]
* Focal Length: 85 mm [+]
* ISO Speed: 100 [+]

Taken with a Nikon D80.
Strobist Info: SB-800 at M 1/8 into 43" white satin shoot through umbrella. See setup shot. IR pass through filter infront of the pop up flash to use as commander.

Natalie earned a tent with a program she is doing this summer. She set it up herself and the two of them spent the night with pedro and angel barking! They got cold at 5 am and came inside.

Natalie and Danielle Peer Out!

Natalie and Danielle Peer Out!, originally uploaded by Carl's Photography.

Taken with a Nikon D80.

* Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100) [+]
* Aperture: f/2.8 [+]
* Focal Length: 85 mm [+]
* ISO Speed: 100 [+]

Strobist Info: At ISO 100 and f/2 I shot the tent by itself. There wasn't enough depth of focus so I bumped the aperture up 3 click (1 stop - f/2.2, f/2.5, f/2.8) to f/2.8. I therefore took the shutter speed down one stop to maintain the ambient sunset twilight with a shutter speed of 1/100 (down from 1/200s). I had to move my key light forward though to maintain adequate exposure and increased to M 1/2. SB-800 at M 1/2 into 43" white satin shoot through umbrella. See setup shot. IR pass through filter infront of the pop up flash to use as commander.

Natalie earned a tent with a program she is doing this summer. She set it up herself and the two of them spent the night with pedro and angel barking! They got cold at 5 am and came inside.

Brent - Mr. Incredible

Brent - Mr. Incredible, originally uploaded by Carl's Photography.

Taken with a Nikon D80.

* Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200) [+]
* Aperture: f/4 [+]
* Focal Length: 85 mm [+]
* ISO Speed: 100 [+]

Strobist Info: SB-800 at M 1/16 Gelled at CTO at camera left through white satin 43" shoot through umbrella very close to him. SB-600 with no gel at M 1/32 behind him snooted with an open pringles can against the wall. White balance manually set at 3800K

Brent and His New Suit

Brent and His New Suit, originally uploaded by Carl's Photography.

Taken with a Nikon D80.

* Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200) [+]
* Aperture: f/4 [+]
* Focal Length: 85 mm [+]
* ISO Speed: 100 [+]

Strobist Info: SB-800 at M 1/16 Gelled at CTO at camera left through white satin 43" shoot through umbrella very close to him. SB-600 with no gel at M 1/32 behind him snooted with an open pringles can against the wall. White balance manually set at 3800K

Brent's new suit just came. Thought I'd try out a different shot here. I'd like to get a grid to insert into the pringles can to even control the light more. I'd like to get another SB-800 to use as hair light as well.

Black Raspberries on Black

Black Raspberries on Black, originally uploaded by Carl's Photography.

Taken with a Nikon D80.

* Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200) [+]
* Aperture: f/2.2 [+]
* Focal Length: 85 mm [+]
* ISO Speed: 160 [+]

Strobist info: I used a fluorescent strip light to aid in focusing initially and left it on manual focus on the tripod. SB-800 at M 1/16 camera right through a 43" white satin shoot through umbrella about 2 feet from the berries. SB-600 at camera left and behind at M 1/128 through a snoot (pringle potato chip can!). Both triggered via Nikon CLS/AWS with the IR pass through filter attached. I chose maximum flash synch speed of 1/200s and started at iso 100 and went up until I liked the exposure from the rim light at f/1.8. After taking a few, I decided to go for a bit more depth of field and increased my aperture f number to f/2.2. I then correspondingly clicked my iso up to 160. I took some at f/1.4, f/1.8, f/2.2, f/2.8 and f/4.0. I chose this one to show as a good balance between maintaining some out of focus highlights (bokeh) and having much of the bowl in focus. f/4.0 was not looking pleasant in the bokeh at the upper left.

***real info***
We got up and all 5 of us (Becky, Natalie, Danielle, Brent and I) grabbed a bowl. We took the four wheeler along the perimeter of our property, stopping to pick black raspberries when we saw patches of them. The black raspberry is somewhat smaller than a raspberry or blackberry. We picked about a 1/2 gallon. Here you see pictured a smaller portion. We brought them in and had them with our pancakes, bing cherries, white nectarines, red cherries and strawberries for breakfast.

Turn this way his dad said. "Ok," said Brent.

Turn this way his dad said. "Ok," said Brent., originally uploaded by carlcmc.

Taken with a Nikon D80.

* Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600) [+]
* Aperture: f/2.2 [+]
* Focal Length: 85 mm [+]
* ISO Speed: 100 [+]

We setup inside my shed and opened the door to the east. The sun was setting casting a golden hue across the field of grass. I underexposed the field a bit keeping aperture fairly wide open (f/2.2 of a possible f/1.4) and at iso 100 that yielded a shutter speed of 1/1600. He was complete black against the background at this exposure.

***Strobist info****: What to do? Oh ya, I have Auto FP with the Nikon CLS/AWS. I set a SB-800 at M 1/1. This was shot through a 43" white satin umbrella that was just out of frame about 2 feet from him on camera right. SB-600 at M1/1 at camera left about 3-4 feet from him into a white satin 43" shoot through umbrella. I had to move those lights right up on him to have enough light output.

Cropped from 4x6 to 8x10 in Adobe Lightroom. Dust spot, levels, saturation/vibrance, and vignette editing done.

I thought this background was a fun change from my interior black or white backgrounds. With the strong warm evening sun, the field had a yellow green color. When I first went rushing inside to get my camera gear, there were dark black/blue clouds over the horizon as well that complimented the grass. However, by the time I got out the sky had cleared and become quite light. I decided against using a wide angle lens that I had initially planned to use and switched to my 85mm lens to include just the fields of grass.

We had just finished fixing the lawn mower and propping up some apple tree limbs when I thought of photographing him here.

Evening Clouds in B&W

Evening Clouds in B&W, originally uploaded by carlcmc.