This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
A slice of an onion, lit from behind. Inspired by this shot of a tomato lit from behind. When I next get a tomato I'll have a go with that.
Pentax K-x - 1 sec - f/? - ISO 200 - ~82mm
Lit using an Achiever 300DX flash held pointing at the (whitish) floor, to bounce up through a thin plastic chopping board (to diffuse light) to backlight the subject (which was about 40mm above the chopping board on a transparent plastic container).
Used GIMP to adjust layers, clean up a rough edge and desaturate using channels or something (it was only faintly coloured, but I played with different settings to get steep contrast). Scaled and watermarked for web.
I'm looking forward to getting radio flash triggers.
Hi, I noticed you have a 300DX flash with your pentax. I was looking at buying one of those flashes, was everything ok to use it straight with the pentax?
ReplyDeleteThe Achiever 300DX? It came with an old pentax film camera, and yes, it worked fine with the pentax (K-x). Mine had a pentax foot though (has "made for pentax" on the bit that goes in the shoe. It's low voltage, and should be fine with digital cameras. I don't know about the p-ttl though, if that's what you're interested in. It does interact with the camera in a way that other flashes of mine don't (the camera knows it is there, and you can set it to not fire when the flash isn't charged, and the flash ready signal appears in the viewfinder when it is).
ReplyDeleteI modified mine for manual, too. Otherwise I think it only really worked properly for one specific aperture setting. I don't remember.
Does that help?