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Canon 5DM2, Canon 100mmL, studio flash, Silver Efex Pro, CS6.


talking heads by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr


2010 by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr


precision engineering? by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr

Lord Vetinari

Like the series- esp #2. How did you light these shots ?
Brian v.

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Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Like the series- esp #2. How did you light these shots ?
Brian v.

Thanks, Brian.

I use a set of cheap studio flash heads and diffuser boxes. The set cost me about £300 some six years ago. They are only 100W lights (really low) but are great for table-top and macro. I also use a pop-out circular diffuser as well as the diffuser box (I just hang it in front of the diffuser box a short distance away from it) and that gives an even softer, even light. I find it important to get a well diffused light, and also to make the light source as large as possible relative to the subject. That's fairly easy with macro. The larger (relatively) the light source to subject and the closer it is the softer the light effect will be.

You can buy cheap kits now for about £400, which is about the same as a Canon flash gun!

Here's my typical setup, although it doesn't include the pop-out diffuser.



That setup produced this shot...


Chive by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr