I’m trying to do something else today, but then I can’t pull it off because the flower keeps on falling down; Then I saw some nice effect with the water, so I just roll with it 🙂 Most of the time, mistakes lead us to something… might not be what we wanted originally, but still cool nevertheless. Gear: Canon 7D + EF 50mm 1.8 + 430exii Settings: f16 | 1/250 | ISO 320 Strobist: 430exii + LumiQuest Softbox III @ […]
Well, let me get this straight, this ring is not mine 🙂 This ring is from a friend… He called from the Philippines tonight and made a “request” for my 365 to feature his ring. Well, there you go! All I can say is that, the ring looks pretty good! Looks very expensive indeed 🙂 Congrats! Gear: Canon 7D + EF 100mm f2.8 + 580exii Settings : f6.3 | 1/250 | ISO 100 Strobist info: 580exii + LumiQuest Softbox III […]
Today, nothing special 🙂 Just a normal CD lying around the house, putting some water drops and a little experimentation with the position of the speedlites. It gives different shades of rainbow colors every time I change the angle of the strobes. Again, something new I learned with my little science experiment 🙂 Creating your own rainbow is fun! 😀 Gear: 7D + EF 100mm f2.8 + 430exii + 580exii Settings: f8.0 | 1/250 | ISO 100 Strobist info: 580exii […]
Water is a very interesting subject to shoot, it’s always unpredictable…. This time, no fancy background, though I did put some colorful object on the foreground to give me a colorful water drop 🙂 Just a tip, when shooting something high speed in flash photography, it is best to remember that it is not the shutter speed that is stopping the action, it’s the strobe… the flash duration to be exact. I am really happy I finished 50 shots already, […]
Today is my birthday. Got up around 7am today and my sweetie was singing happy birthday and outside on the table, she got me a white forest cake and slices of cheese cakes. The white forest cake is the one you can see above, already half eaten of course, together with the candles that came with it. It was a happy moment for me, and as if that’s not enough, she gave me a present that cannot be purchased anywhere […]
Another last minute shot 🙂 I had the idea of the lemon with the water drops but I was not able to get the effect I want, so I moved it to the sink to get a running water… Then at the last minute added this background to give a colorful punch 🙂 Gear: Canon 7D + EF 100mm f2.8 macro + 580exii + LumiQuest Softbox III Settings: f7.1 | 1/250 | ISO 100 Strobist info: 580exii + Lumiquest softbox […]
Today was one of those days again… crunch time 🙂 Scratching my head ’till 10pm until this idea came up, wanted to give credit to my assistant for chirping a few ideas here and there and for holding the water source (the shower) for me. Indeed a great help. Would have been difficult to do this on my own. I have something different on my head but this came out pretty interesting so I guess I’m going with it 😀 […]
They say, everything has a face if you stare at it long enough. Well in this case, you don’t have to stare too long to notice the faces on the matches as they burned. Finally! I have finished one month of my 365 🙂 I took a picture every single day for the entire month… I’m giving my self a pat at the back 🙂 So far I am really happy with all the images I took for this month. […]
This is what I take every morning, Triple Omega 3-6-9. As they say, health is wealth! How I took this shot: I put the fish oil capsules in a small tupperware to diffuse the light coming out of the speedlite 580exii placed on the top. Gear: Canon 7D + EF 100mm f2.8 Macro lens Settings: f13 | 1/250 , 580exii @ 1/64 power Strobist Info: Bare 580exii with the built in diffuser @ 1/64 power on top Trigger: Built-in wireless […]
You need patience and lots and lots of it. Add a dependable macro lens, a ring flash adapter, a flash gun and most importantly a very cooperative insect model! wheew! that’s the recipe of a successful 1:1 macro shot (at least that’s from my experience). To be honest, this is my first 1:1 macro shot, because I have all the above ingredients for some time, except for the cooperative model, but today… it came! Just when I needed it the […]