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Jewelry photography, day five.

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on August 26, 2010

in 105mm, Adobe Lightroom, Flash, Full size, How to, ISO50, Sigma SD15 and Studio

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Now I moved so much away from my initial setup that I feel that I will show you a picture or two of what my current setup actually looks like. Woohoo! I will post some in the comments section. The above shot is slightly cleaned up – the gold surface was slightly scratched and some dents so I repainted the middle reflection and the bottom left - but other than that it’s the original photo – I’m now very satisfied with how reflections works – and if I change ring reflections still look beautiful. I must say that the pure IQ that the Sigma SD15 gives is extremely high. I’ve been looking at other photographers works with jewelry and once you go closer it just doesn’t look good. This shot is available in full size as well. A bit too full really. :)

This time I didn’t use anything else than LR3 and PS5. The only thing left now is to continue with OOF – and see where I should stop before text is readable. This shot is ISO50, 105mm, f11, 1/160s.

Playing with OOF

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 26, 2010

in 105mm, Adobe Lightroom, Flash, ISO50, Sigma SD15 and Studio

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I noticed that it’s more or less impossible to get correct focus at more then one ring at a time (at f7.1) – so I took three shots and combined them in PS.. :) It’s really late too, I should go to bed. hmm.. This is a Lightroom 3 conversion of SD15 file, not bad – but not as good as from SPP.

I’m pretty much set now with my setup – this last shot had no changes, no painting except taking away a little dust – although getting the background WHITE is time consuming when there is so much blur to deal with. The foremost black corners will also be a little bit less black – one white foam infront of camera is missing.

Jewelry photography, day four. (Updated)

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 25, 2010

in 105mm, Adobe Lightroom, Flash, Full size, How to, ISO50, Sigma Photo Pro, Sigma SD15 and Studio

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Final capture for day four: We had a long talk today, me and the jewelry guy. He wanted the text within each ring to be unreadable so we decided that taking each text away using PS would take way to long, but using a wider aperture could work instead. I had to move the light quite a bit (I used lowest power at f20 on those last shots) and now I had to use a semitransparent white circular reflector in-between the softbox and the “set” . I finally got a working F8. I could go all the way down to f5.6 but then it was hard to see anything exept one or two diamonds in focus.

I also wrapped the whole sets bottom in golden reflective material – and it seams to work pretty nicely. There is a 3000px version of the below image.

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Jewelry photography, Day three.. (Update)

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 24, 2010

in 70mm, Adobe Lightroom, Flash, Sigma Photo Pro, Sigma SD15 and Studio

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EDIT. Late Evening, day three. Last edit for tonight.
This last one has very strong colors because I selected “vivid” color mode in SPP. No added saturation - actually I pulled it back a bit in PS. The full size shot, with all it’s flaws.

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Jewelry photography day 2.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 23, 2010

in 70mm, Adobe Lightroom, Flash, ISO50, Sigma SD15 and Studio

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ringtest1

Alright, it’s not really day two, but at least it’s first shot! I dealed a little with it in Photoshop and will play more with reflections to get the right feel (but not in Photoshop, but on the set). What do you think? It’s ISO50. I think I will get more black in the corners of the ring, like a black frame somehow. Also it’s a little too tilted. :) But that’s not the important part right now.

Right now, I only play with fake rings – will get the real stuff when it’s time for the real deal. About 200 of them.

Light from above, two paper reflectors on the side. Elinchrom Quadra. Sigma SD15, Sigma 70mm.

A day at Marstrand. Strobist.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 23, 2010

in 10-20, 50mm 1.4, Adobe Lightroom, Full size, ISO50, Portraits, Sigma Photo Pro, Sigma SD14 and Studio

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The knife maker. Shot on Marstrand using SD14 + Sigma 50mm 1.4 and using sun as main light and Sigma 530 DG and back shape light. ISO50. Now, ISO50 is such a compressed format that you really need to expose with great care. His shoulder is totally white and if it was shot at ISo100 it would still be information there. There is, if I convert to Monochrome but because it’s only info from one or two channels (Showing strange colors if still shown) Sigma has decided to erase everything in those areas.. I had lots of overexposed ISO50 shots yesterday and I regret shooting at ISO50. Stupid me.

If you look closer you’ll see a light shadow in his glasses, that’s where the round shape of a tiny beauty dish were before I erased it using LR3. Strong sun from the back and the Sigma 530 DG from slight above using a beauty dish making the sharp light disappear. SD14 + 50mm 1.4 + ISO50 (or more ISO25). Too much light entered the 50mm so I had to emphasizes those shadows and the hat quite a lot.

The oldish couple. Shot using 10-20 with sun as main and 530 DG as side light. Slight green color on the left shows where 530 is placed. SD14 and ISO50. This came out slightly dark, best viewed at full size.

The above shot was slightly overexposed ISO50 shot, skin was overexposed in the color version – this version is equal to ISO25. These two guys are well known over at www.99.se Goflorp (handle) and Rei Trulsson.. Nice to talk a bit with to of my readers in real life. :)

Childhood friends passing by, had to take their picture. The 530 from the far right. I should have used one more flash on their legs, that would probably make this shot a lot better. And yes, the 530 was a little too powerful this time. SD14 10-20mm ISO50

And finally, three shots of Linn. I’m so happy to have her around so I can play!! :D

These last two could have been more worked on in SPP or LR but.. I didn’t. In the last shot the flash was slightly to close to her and skin is a little overexposed. Could work better as monochrome. All three shot using SD14 and 10-20mm. ISO50 on all.

All above images available as full size on flickr. Handle with care.

Just another fruit..

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 27, 2010

in Flash, Full size, Sigma DP2 and Studio

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Just had to put up something developed using SPP4. Very smooth tones. ISO100. NO PS except text and cropping. AML-1 used. (close up lens from Sigma)
Full size (slightly cropped)

Rockstar

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 27, 2010

in Flash, Full size, Portraits, Sigma DP2, Sigma Photo Pro and Studio

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A shot from Wednesday evening. DP2. Quadra.
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Develop black and white

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 21, 2010

in All, Apple Aperture, High ISO/ASA (400+), Movie, Sigma DP2, Sigma Photo Pro and Studio

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A basic tour in how to produce nice black and white images with the help of Sigma Photo Pro. And in case I didn’t make myself clear in the video, no flash or strobes has been used in any of these images. Only halogen “flood” light, a 1000w of it -- pretty bad really and therefor black and white is a really good solution. Also, camera used? Dp2. Surprise! :D

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Raw Developer revisited #2

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Carl Rytterfalk

on February 26, 2010

in Flash, Full size, Portraits, Raw Developer, Sigma SD14 and Studio

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Raw Developer is my preferred tool when dealing with images that I think of in terms of black and white and the SD14 is my preferred camera. Last week I had one of my studio classes (that’s when we did the milk thingi) I took some shots when preparing the light – also because I wanted to test a lens that I’ll come back to later. Raw Developer has lots of interesting settings to play with – today I played with the curve tool and “lightness” channel. Recommended!

This whole post is Bob’s fault and can be viewed as full size (some saved at 200%)

And some in color: (Photo of Dad is ISo200 with noise reduction turned off)

Last shot has been saved at 200% size – Have a look!
OBS! Noise reduction is turned off.. (on all above images)

splash of milk

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Carl Rytterfalk

on February 18, 2010

in Full size, Sigma Photo Pro, Sigma SD14 and Studio

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Wondering where I’ve been hiding? Well, truth is that I’m planning my wedding. Plus lots of things to do. :) So if anyone wanna come to my wedding the 26/6 2010, please send me an email so I know.. Make sure to bring your camera! :D

Oh, and above shot(s) is taken a few hours ago with my young photo students. I promised them to have fun with milk one day, and today was that day. This is a series of shots put together to one. I’m not sure what we wanted, but milky was maybe the word. The guy on the pictures is Danny, he’s a musicians and was on his way to play with his band but we asked him very kindly (and I gave him cash for coffee) and he did smell a little sweet after. :D

Video from Schillerska.. (NEW, IMPROVED)

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Carl Rytterfalk

on December 17, 2009

in 12-24, 18-50, How to, Movie, Sigma DP1, Sigma DP2, Sigma SD14 and Studio

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EDIT: You saw it? Please check it out again as it’s now much nicer looking, especially full screen” Make sure you have HD selected.

This video is made for Linn to show on her last day at work for colleges. But I think it might be fun for you to see it as it shows how I work a bit. :)

And here’s a picture of Linn, in case you don’t know what she looks like. She’s the shorter of them two.

Schillerska revisited – Day in Black and white!

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Carl Rytterfalk

on December 17, 2009

in 12-24, 18-50, High ISO/ASA (400+), Portraits, Sigma DP2, Sigma Photo Pro, Sigma SD14 and Studio

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I must admit, I’m still in love with how SD14 handles monochrome white balance. It’s so rich! I had three classes to photograph today and I selected a few pictures to show. Everything is shot using SD14 + 18-50 2.8 or 12-24 except the very last shot shown. ISO is set between 100 and 800. Elinchom Quadra used in some way(s) in every shot. Some shots has been perspective corrected (bw group shots) – every development is made in Sigma Photo pro. Some shots has two other shots combined inside (No, Linn has no twin sister).

Why so many black and white? The heavy yellow light made it hard to get what I wanted + that I needed to go higher with ISO as I wanted a natural light and not “flashy” as I got yesterday (see group shot from yesterday and compare with todays). Yesterdays problem was that it was way to dark outside to have any use into the scene. Today was very dark too so I put them in the window.. hehe.

In above shot I used the 12-24, and it’s not very sharp wide open so I had to use a smaller aperture – I experimented with different ones but didn’t want to go above 1s exposure. So I ended up using ISO800. But as you know, using the monochrome mode that’s never a problem. I wanted F11, but was only able to get 6.3. Worked well.

Above: I sort of wanted a serious overall look so I asked them to look .. ehh.. cool? They tried. This particular class was pretty small so I didn’t need to go as wide as the one before so I used 18-50 – picture is wider in reality but perspective corrected to get straight lines. Do you notice any other changes made? – and 18-50 is faster and sharper than the 12-24 so I was able to do this one at ISO100 and. Jaij!

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Schillerska revisited..

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Carl Rytterfalk

on December 16, 2009

in 18-50, Adobe Lightroom, Portraits, Sigma Photo Pro, Sigma SD14 and Studio

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Back at Schillerska, this time taking pictures of Linn’s Chinese classes. Will go back tomorrow to take some more. Here’s a few. These has been taken with long shutter speed (2-3s) and El Quadra.. There is still lots of strong yellow light and I’ll try to shield them some tomorrow using something big protective thingi. mm.. need more assistants. :) Developed using SPP and post-developed using Lightroom. Doing develops this late isn’t always a recommended thing. Hope I like it in the morning too.

One problem is the huge color temperature difference between room light and flash. Perhaps I need to get some gels.