Can of Coke

Lighting info: see setup shot below and explanations.


This picture was made for the Strobist Boot Camp II: Assignment#2. I created it in two parts.

Part one was exposing the can itself and part two was creating the swish behind it. The can was exposed by light from an SB600 at its lowest setting, very close to the can camera left. The light is diffused by the use of a piece of kitchen towel. Light is reflected back onto the can camera right by use of a folded piece of paper. The first few images were made on the table top which I didn't like much. A black box was used to change the background and the surface black.

Part two was creating the swish. The exposure was set to two and a half seconds to allow enough time to create the swish. The light to create the swish is from the lit screen of my mobile phone. It took me around 70 attempts to create the look I was looking for.

PP - desaturated and dodged the swish to bring out the whites.

Yasir and laptop

Lighting info - SB600 camera left through homemade diffuser. Gelled SB600 on laptop (1/2 CTB). Both strobes fired with CLS.

Stephanie on sofa

Stephanie on sofa, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Strobist - SB600 on white shoot through high camera axis. SB800 camera left pointing at the white floor (outside frame) almost at camera axis. Both fired with CLS.

Nosheen

Nosheen, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Two SB600's through white shoot thrus above and below fired by CLS. Above at 1/4 and below at 1/10 power.

Stephanie

Stephanie, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Two SB600's through white shoot thrus above and below fired by CLS. Above at 1/4 and below at 1/10 power.

Picture made at the Capital D Studio in Dubai.

Yasir

Yasir, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Lighting - snooted SB800 camera left triggered by CLS. 3 p.m sun camera right behind building (subject in shadow).

Levitation

D40 with 18-55 kit lens. Composite, first image was of me sitting on a stool and second was of background. Lighting info - gridded strobe high camera left pointed at face and strobe through white shoot thru camera right.

Email blogging

This is a test post to see if the email blogging works and what it looks like.
Lighting info - Sb600 camera right through white shoot thru. Fired with CLS.

Nathan

Nathan, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Nathan at the London Strobist meetup - 28/03/09

Strobist - SB600 (with dying batteries) camera left through Lasolite softbox. CTO'd SB800 (I think) camera right firing at the background.

Nadine

Nadine, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Nadine at the London Strobist meetup - the theme was Film Noir.

Strobist - gridded SB800 camera right pointing at models' face.
Snooted Sb600 (?) pointing at the feet. Fired with CLS on TTL.

Also, lots of ambient high camera right. The picture was made under a railway arch - lots of ambient light camera right, almost no ambient light camera left.

Danielle

Danielle, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Same lighting as this photo.

On camera SB24 bounced off ceiling at 1/2 power. Off camera SB26 at camera right at 1/8 power bounced off side wall.

This was taken at the London strobist meet on 22 Feb 09 at the pub before we went out to the location

The Alaskan

The Alaskan, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.
JW joined us (all the way from Alaska) at the London Strobist social on 11 March 09.

Gareth brought his Rayflash ring flash adopter, so we decided to take some test shots. The camera was lent by Huy .

Strobist - SB600 in ring flash handheld fired via CLS. D300 with a Sigma 10-20 lens (also Huys!)

Leake St

Leake St, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Strobist - shoot through umbrella in front of talent (high and slightly right camera axis). sb24 (full power).
1 sb28 and 1 sb24 behind model camera left and camera right.

Taken at teh London Strobist meet 22 Feb 09.

Evelyn II

Evelyn II, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Strobist - 3 lights all through white shoot thru umbrellas.
One high on camera axis, two on either side of mode. Cannot remember the powers on either.

Taken at the London Strobist meetup 22 Feb 2009

Evelyn

Evelyn, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Strobist - 3 lights (clamshell 1/2 at the top and 1/8 at the bottom)
SB600 camera right with a grid spot held by Emil.

Taken at the London strobist meet 22 Feb 2009.