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12-28-2008, 10:04 PM
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| Medicated since 1968  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: East Bay Area Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 20570      | camera setup I have been a photographer for over 40 years...when I bought my first professional level camera. I have always been amazed at the amazing level of talent here on WT, and the quality of the pix that some folks post... this is the setup I use now... D300 Nikon, with a 60mm f/2.8 Nikon macro lens.... Speedotron CX2403 flash with two 202vf heads.... I am going to build a small light table so I can light from the bottom with another flash head... I shoot in the raw format, then download the photos into Adobe Lightroom, then color balance, sharpen etc... then into Photoshop CS4 for final adjustments... now, I just gotta stop smoking my subjects BEFORE I photograph them..... ......    .... |
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01-20-2009, 02:07 PM
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| i just shot herb.  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: -oC- Co-Op: No Vendor: No Patient: Yes
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Rep Power: 361 | Re: camera setup cool setup stanley. i agree there are many people posting some great pics of meds here. next time i drag my equipment out to shoot meds, i will take a pic of my setup and post here. by that time i should be able to post pics! do you have any result pics from your setup to share? cheers! |
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01-20-2009, 02:28 PM
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| WT Advanced Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: On a Tree, in a Grove....Sunny SoCal Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 72564  | Re: camera setup That 60mm f2.8 is SWEET....I want one !!!!! Post up a couple pics !!! :partysmile: |
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01-20-2009, 08:42 PM
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| Medicated since 1968 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: East Bay Area Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 20570 | Re: camera setup Quote:
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Any of the pix I have posted since early 2008 were taken with the 60mm Micro Nikkor lens... but I just switched to the D300 body last November or so... love it. I just took these this evening of some of the Blue Dream I got in Alameda at PENPC last week.... | ||
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01-20-2009, 09:01 PM
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| The Most Medical-est  Join Date: Oct 2005 Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 8309 | Re: camera setup that is one sick setup, stanley, and the pics it takes are incredible! digital photography and its technology are definitely something i want to get into more. |
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01-21-2009, 08:00 AM
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| i just shot herb. Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: -oC- Co-Op: No Vendor: No Patient: Yes
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Rep Power: 361 | Re: camera setup nice result shots stanley! thanks for posting them. grats on the new body! ps. that blue dream looks sick! |
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01-21-2009, 08:12 AM
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| Chicks Rule, Dudes Drool  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: The Beach Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 11372 | Re: camera setup That 2.8 makes for a very quiet lens, I like it because you can shoot in low light with no flash. |
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01-21-2009, 09:35 AM
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| WT Advanced Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: On a Tree, in a Grove....Sunny SoCal Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 72564 | Re: camera setup Heres my makeshift "Studio" in the garage.......I'm using a Nikon D100 with a Nikkor 70-300mm w/+8 macro filter....2 strobes with umbrellas and a focus light...I've been into photography for many years....but doing "Product Shots" for only a couple of months.....much fun !!!!! I'm saving up for a 60mm 2.8 !!!!!! Enjoy ........   |
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01-21-2009, 01:47 PM
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| Medicated since 1968 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: East Bay Area Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 20570 | Re: camera setup Thank you guys, I have a lot of fun screwing around with the camera. Keeps me off the streets.... One thing about the equipment... I absolutely love the sharpness of the 60mm f/2.8 Nikkor..... but..... I wish I had the 105 f/2.8 instead... The ONLY downside of the 60mm lens is for the close up shots like the above, the "working distance" to the bud was only a couple inches in front of the lens... that makes lighting it tougher without getting lens flare.... With the 105mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor, it still focuses all the way down to 1:1 like the 60mm..... with about a foot between the bud and the front of the lens.... making lights a whole lot easier to control... I kinda think it may be my next toy... |
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01-21-2009, 03:24 PM
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| i just shot herb. Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: -oC- Co-Op: No Vendor: No Patient: Yes
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Rep Power: 361 | Re: camera setup great i can post attachments now. here are a few i shot a few years back in a friends garden. canon20d, 100mm macro, strobe/softbox setup. Last edited by gilman; 01-21-2009 at 03:28 PM.. |
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01-21-2009, 03:29 PM
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| O.G. CRAKA  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: LOS ANGELES Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 4687 | Re: camera setup holy shit avocado, you are not playing games!!!! and i was trying to go at it with a shitty digital camera, thinking my pictures would come out. nothing but blur. i did find out i dont have a micro shot, on my shit. really i do want to document them, they are all very nice, and i would like others to see these wonderful meds....oh damn |
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01-21-2009, 04:41 PM
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| Medicated since 1968 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: East Bay Area Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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Rep Power: 20570 | Re: camera setup Quote:
Rumor has it Nikon is raising their prices 15-18% Feb 1 by the way... Just a question on your set up.... I have had trouble with lens flare when I put a light source in front like your halogen lamp looks to be.... unless I flag it off so that I have a flag between the light and the lens axis...leaving the light from the lamp falling only on the subject.... helps me with contrast issues... Thats one of the reasons I think I need to build myself some diffusion screens, so I can deliver the light less directionally...if that makes sense... right now the smallest soft box I have is 36 x 48, and I have umbrellas from 60" down to 30", white, silver and gold... Quote:
I saw some of your portrait work in the other thread, you do very nice stuff! I used to shoot for the local news rag, and shot for a couple catalog houses and swim suit mags for a while... back in the film days.... Just getting back into shooting people... that sounds terrible.....PHOTOGRAPHING people.... I have been concentrating lately on honing some Photoshop skills for portrait retouching.... | ||
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01-21-2009, 05:00 PM
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| Medicated since 1968 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: East Bay Area Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
Posts: 1,751
Rep Power: 20570 | Re: camera setup Quote:
Digital cameras these days are AMAZING! OK, you probably cant get as close or quite as sharp as a guy with a rig like Avocado's or gilman's or mine.... but you didnt spend a bleedin' fortune either! But you can STILL take remarkable pix, you just need to practice a bit, and learn what YOUR camera lets you do best..... Chances are you can take great pix if you do a couple things..... get TONS of light on the buds....bright sunlight is best, but even table lamps work, if you get them in close... You can use things like white paper plates, up real close to the buds as reflectors, so you get ALL the light you can on the "subject". Dont try to get closer than your camera will focus...wont do any good.... so back off and let the camera get a good focus... you can "crop" the picture later on the computer... Set your camera and the bud down on a solid surface.... use a bean bag or a bag of rice or something to set your camera on if you dont have a tripod... the camera needs to be ABSOLUTELY still... If your camera has a "self timer" use it to trip the shutter so there is NO camera movement when you take these close ups... The built in flash on your camera probably wont focus its beam up close for bud pix, but you can "help" it with those paper plate reflectors I was talking about.... Experiment, and if you want, ask folks here questions.... sharing stuff like this is how I learned what little I know, and I learn more every day. Here is my method... roll a fattie. smoke it. See if you have another bud to photograph.... if yes, fool around a bit, and see what comes out... roll a fattie, smoke it.... if you still have a bud to shoot, fool around a bit more... dont sweat the small stuff, and remember at all times, its all small stuff.... I think that is why I like photography.... | |
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01-21-2009, 08:38 PM
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| The Most Medical-est Join Date: Oct 2005 Co-Op: no Vendor: no Patient: yes
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02-03-2009, 05:54 PM
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| Does a misanthrope hate themself?  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Co-Op: NO Vendor: NO Patient: YES
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Rep Power: 3681 | Re: camera setup Any Minolta/Sony fans around? I just picked up a Sony A700 (came with an 18-70, have a 24, 50 and 70-210) and I'm trying to figure out the best setup to take closeup budshots. From my playing around so far I can get more detailed macros shots from my Nikon p&s... |
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