viktorlantos
Aquascaper
Cheers guys, i am not that active nowadays sorry about that.
We usually organize a few workshop every year on different subject. This weekend we had a shrimp photography workshop where we had the goal in mind, to shoot something close in quality of Chris Lukhaup photos. For those who are not familiar with his work in this hobby just hit his name to the google or facebook. He is a legend.
Chris's photos are awesome. Most of these appear in magazines, books, posters etc. Kind of the best shot in this field all the time. But we took 2 different photo setups and played a few hours to get a good result.
One setup with 3 LED light and 4x54W backlight. This was the CRS shooting scene.
The other setup with a 500W Bowens flash with softbox "only".
I think i shoot like 250 photos in a few hours. All other guests also made a lot of photos too with different kind of cameras.
From all these shots i selected the one which is not too bad and refined a little like on Chis shots.
Just to have an idea what Chris photos look like
553410_10150831726228198_766648197_9564280_1915181786_n by Chris Lukhaup, on Flickr
And here is what we did at the end of the day
WORKSHOP - Shrimp Photography - FINAL SHOT by viktorlantos, on Flickr
This was fun like all other workshops. Many things which i would do differently next time, but this is always good if you challenge yourself a little.
Next time i would pick a different shrimp magnet. As Cactus was too detailed and distract the view a little. Also just a little bit better focusing would make it better.
The final shot was done with Canon 5D Mark III, EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, f/20, 1/160, ISO 100. Lighting is 1x500W Bowens R with softbox from the top. The shrimp was settled in a small opti white photo tank.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/emze75/14683032300/
We usually organize a few workshop every year on different subject. This weekend we had a shrimp photography workshop where we had the goal in mind, to shoot something close in quality of Chris Lukhaup photos. For those who are not familiar with his work in this hobby just hit his name to the google or facebook. He is a legend.
Chris's photos are awesome. Most of these appear in magazines, books, posters etc. Kind of the best shot in this field all the time. But we took 2 different photo setups and played a few hours to get a good result.
One setup with 3 LED light and 4x54W backlight. This was the CRS shooting scene.
The other setup with a 500W Bowens flash with softbox "only".
I think i shoot like 250 photos in a few hours. All other guests also made a lot of photos too with different kind of cameras.
From all these shots i selected the one which is not too bad and refined a little like on Chis shots.
Just to have an idea what Chris photos look like
553410_10150831726228198_766648197_9564280_1915181786_n by Chris Lukhaup, on Flickr
And here is what we did at the end of the day
WORKSHOP - Shrimp Photography - FINAL SHOT by viktorlantos, on Flickr
This was fun like all other workshops. Many things which i would do differently next time, but this is always good if you challenge yourself a little.
Next time i would pick a different shrimp magnet. As Cactus was too detailed and distract the view a little. Also just a little bit better focusing would make it better.
The final shot was done with Canon 5D Mark III, EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, f/20, 1/160, ISO 100. Lighting is 1x500W Bowens R with softbox from the top. The shrimp was settled in a small opti white photo tank.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/emze75/14683032300/