Flash Experiments

Flash SetupYes­ter­day I take the time to exper­i­ment a bit with my flash equip­ment. I setup a small glass cube, filled with water, cov­ered the three side with stan­dard laser printer paper and put two flashes (Nikon SB26 and SB800) on the two sides. The paper basi­cally is used to get a dif­fused light and reduce reflec­tions. The cam­era, mounted on a tri­pod, sync by a cable con­nec­tion to the SB800 why the SB26 fire remotely by a build in light sen­sor. Then I start to drop things in to the water and try to catch the right moment to release the shut­ter with a cable release. It is a kind of ‘try and error’ to get the right moment and right posi­tion to trop and shoot. First I placed a cup in the cube to adjust the frame, get the right focus and deep of field. After sev­eral test shots I used ISO 200, 250/s and f/16 at the cam­era and both flashes was set to ISO 100, out­put power set to 1/16 and use the build in wide-flash adapter. On the photo beside you can see how the setup looks like, also the SB26 fire trig­gered by the flash of my point and shoot cam­era I used. First I used one or more straw­ber­ries and later try even other things. Here 6 of the best shots I got:

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Taroko Gorge Photos in Lightbox

Waterfall I Water II Mountain Daisy’<p><p><p>s East Coast I East Coast II

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Lightbox 2 Test

Taipei 101 BumperHere I test the new installed Light­box 2 Plu­gin for Word­Press. Click on the image and let’s see how it works…

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First Images from my trip to Taroko Gorge.

Taroko Gorge Here you can find the first images I made dur­ing my trip to the Taroko Gorge Nature Park this January.

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Caridina cf. cantonensis ‘Crystal Red’ Shrimps

Cristal Red Last Sat­ur­day, my way passes by a local fish dealer, where some nice tiny shrimps catch my atten­tion. 2h later a 15 liter fish tank dec­o­rates now our kitchen bar with 13 ‘crys­tal red’ shrimps in it. This kind of shrimps was first known from a Japan­ese aquar­ium hob­by­ist who suc­cess­fully breeds the red col­ored shrimp. Soon I detect that at least one female already car­ries some egg’s so that hope­fully soon the pop­u­la­tion is increasing…

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HDR — High Dynamic Ragne Imaging

HDR trialHere is one trial of a hight dynamic range image to com­pen­sate the lim­ited dynamic range of Dig­i­tal sen­sors. I cap­tured it in the early morn­ing on a over­cast day right after sun­rise.
I set my cam­era a Nikon D200 to BKT to auto­mat­i­cally get a 5 image series from –2 f-stops under to +2 f-stops over exposed.
By using the trial ver­sion of Pho­tomatix from HDR Soft I con­vert all 5 images to one. Until now the result still not con­vince me accord­ing sharp­ness and some blurred light reflec­tions. But it is still amaz­ing to con­tinue for other tri­als and I’m going to share my results here in this blog…

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Gallery update

Recently I updated my links to some photo gal­leries. There you can see some pho­tos form diverse sight­see­ing activ­i­ties in Tai­wan and China. To my Galleries…

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Welcome to my new Blog

Hi Every­one,

now I start to pub­lish my Blog.
I’m a Ger­man expa­tri­ate liv­ing in Taipei Tai­wan. My basic pas­sion is the pho­tog­ra­phy. This should also be the main con­tent of this blog beside the lit­tle events hap­pen in my live.
I hope you enjoy the lit­tle sto­ries and my pho­tos which are pub­lished here from time to time.

Matthias

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