What do you use for lighting your shots? They look as if everything i under natural light, which is a beautiful effect. Since I shoot mainly at night, I'm stuck using the SB600 or on board flash.
Great shots by the way!
Luis
Thanks Luis...
In any of the shots in the Vivs, these are done with a speed light. (SB-800). Bounce the light off the ceiling, no diffuser. The shots you have seen with the black backdrop and cork tube, these where done with Alien Bee's 400 studio lights, one reflected with an umbrella, and one diffused with a white umbrella.
I typically shoot with one overhead light on or a viv light on off to the side. This is to capture it with the IR AF light so that it get good an focused. Of course short durations, thus the reason you will see a few shots now, and a few shots later, and so on
.... don't want to stress them out.
I never use the onboard flash... and typically us a bracket to get the flash up and out of the way a bit, which will reduce hard shadowing.
Shooting these last few with the Nikon 18-70mm 4.5. I shoot at the lowest aperture that the focus length allows.
And I have gotten to be a wiz in PhotoShop... which is where I tweak the lighting setting once again (I shoot 100% raw, allowing me more ability to edit). I spend a good 5 to 10 mins per image sometimes just trying to get it right. As you can see from the above photo, 1 was darker than the other 2, and I just lost detail in the gecko if I up the exposure to match the other 2 (which has the color and white balance I desired over the first one).
I keep the D200, with flash mounted, loaded with a 2 to 8 gig card in the gecko room 24/7, just in case I need to capture that perfect shot. :biggrin::shock:
