Anyone want to reverse engineer an image?

[Don Hoey]

Originally Posted by mw_aurora

...bags packed ready for a couple of weeks down in southern Florida, leaving in the morning

Lucky you. Have a great time as I'm sure you will.

Don

[Don Hoey]

Thanks Duncan and Mark.
This was done to put a slightly different spin on lighting, as opposed to soft light using white diffusers and reflectors.

A little clue.
Steel unless shiny, or cast iron as in these gears, and white diffusers don't really work and subject tends to lack life. So the main light source has to be fairly hard hence the undiffused SB-80DX and use of foil.

I will give Foxy and others time to ponder before posting the set-up shot.

Don

[Canis Vulpes]

How about the use of a foil reflector to bounce harsh light on the front face of those gears.

[Don Hoey]

Given how Mark looks for all the reflections to determine the light sources I thought I would really confuse him with this one.
Easier to get your head round thinking how it may be lit rather than how it was.

Close enough Foxy but this is a bit subtler than using a straight silver brolley or 180 deg bounce.

See attatched behind the scenes.

Don

[Canis Vulpes]

Originally Posted by Don Hoey

Close enough Foxy but this is a bit subtler than using a straight silver brolley or 180 deg bounce.
Don

Clue was real give away, once I read foil I knew the exact foil piece that was used.

[Don Hoey]

Originally Posted by Canis Vulpes

.... once I read foil I knew the exact foil piece that was used.

Looks like I need to be more inventive.

Don

[Canis Vulpes]

Normally Don and I would provide a write-up on a photo when using flash. I think this thread is interesting and provides the same thing using successive guesswork. I'll offer the below photo for reverse engineering - I have a photo of the scene should anyone get close enough.

[Don Hoey]

Originally Posted by Don Hoey

I think for any future ones we should list the kit used as we do not have any idea of the kit available to each contributor.

Foxy,

It may help, as I know how I would do it with what I have, but not too sure if you have added to your kit list of 1 brolley, 1 lastolite reflector.
I notice from the gallery you had SB800 and SB600 both at full power so will check out relative powers for positioning.

Don

[Canis Vulpes]

Originally Posted by Don Hoey

Foxy,

It may help, as I know how I would do it with what I have, but not too sure if you have added to your kit list of 1 brolley, 1 lastolite reflector.
I notice from the gallery you had SB800 and SB600 both at full power so will check out relative powers for positioning.

Don

No real change of kit this year with exception to another brolley. Using the new macro lens flash needs to be full power to light any subject at f32-36.

Soooooo, how was it done?

[mw_aurora]

Ok...there looks to be a light source on shooting-camera left, hitting the front of the subject-camera and looks about level with shooting-camera.

There looks to be a second light from shooting-camera right, higher...and a reflector above, slightly left and angled to light the subject top?