Production Photography: Green Hill Cemetery shoot

2009-08-21

Canon Rebel XT
F-to-EOS adapter
Nikon Pre-Ai 50mm f/1.4 lens

D700 in the grave yard

I checked out RCC's new D700 for over the weekend, and it is an amazing camera. It's easily the most advanced dSLR we have available to us at school, and my top choice for low-light photography. But all that being said, I still prefer the Canon 5D. It's three years older than the D700 and outclassed in a lot of ways, but it's still my favorite. There's just something intangible about the 5D and the beautiful images it produces. Of course, I now love the D700 almost as much.

Nikon D700
Nikon AF 24-85 f/2.8-4 lens
blue-magenta LED flashlight
green laser pointer
Adobe Photoshop CS4

-composite of 4 images
-1 lit by bouncing a strong green laser pointer off near-by graves
-2 lit with LED flashlight from different angles
-1 ambient-lit
-composted using layer opacity
-camera shadow removed/masked-out using Patch Tool and Healing Brush
-multiple star trails Spot Healed-out

Kaibutsu

Canon 5D
Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS lens
Canon 580EX II Speedlite x 2
Canon ST-E2 Speedlite Transmitter

(see Flickr pages for complete lighting descriptions)

Cemetery Play

Canon 30D
Canon 24-105mm f/4L lens
Canon 430EX Speedlite flash
multi-pop manual flash

Still Glow

Sinar F1
(expire) Kodak Pro 100T
LED-modified maglite

Cats In The Grave Yard

I could hear them crying in the distance.
...at least, I hope those where cats.




Light painting attempt using Graflex 4x5 field camera and (expired) Kodak Pro 100 tungsten-balanced film.
Light source: LED modified mini-Maglite + distant city lights.
f/8 - ~5min