Playing with light ... (8)

... As usual, with my Metz 45 CL-4 and the Cactus radio controller ...

Green glass nuggets on a white opaque acrylic sheet, to diffuse light, backlighted by the flash in manual mode triggered by the Cactus radio controller. A black paper cylinder has been used to accentuate the black borders of the nuggets. Shot with my new preferred lens, the FA-43 Limited ;-) ...



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Playing with light ... (5)

... with a green glass apple and my Metz 45 CL-4 Digital, really a great flash for the money ...



The support is a white pexiglas sheet, back lighted by the flash with a green filter on the main strobe, the lens is an SMC Pentax-M 85mm f/1.8 stopped down to f/22 (lack of an ND filter, for now ...)

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Playing with light ... (4)

Rainy sunday, indoor shooting (snif ...).
This is my first attempt at using the multiple exposure mode of my K10D. The first shot has been used for the candle light, and the second one for the flashed portion (i am starting to find the colored filters set of my flash really funny ;-) ...).
Picture taken with my SMC 85mm f/1.8 stopped down to f/22, back light with a Metz 45 CL-4 Digital.



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Playing with light ... (3)

... always with the Metz 45 CL-4 and the Cactus ...
This time, a bowl of glass nuggets, on a opaque white acrylic support (to diffuse light), backlighted with the flash in manual mode, and my old CZJ Flektogon 35 f/2.4, stopped down to f/5.6 ...



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... A few more ...

... Here they are ... Same lens, same light ...







BTW, i forgot to say that the camera flash was smoothed with a white tissue.

C u L8R.

Small cristal ornamentals ...

Some other few shoots, taken with the stock 18-55, daylight and camera flash, on a black thin cardboard.





Of course, these are jpegs cropped/resized from the original raw images.
Bigger sizes are available on the Fickr servers, by clicking on the photos.

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