The photo studio

Stock photography by Ville Eek

First of all, sorry for not posting anything in a while! Have been busy and lazy and busy again for some time now :)

Anyway, I promised to blog again when I had all the parts that I ordered for my studio.
Now they are all here and I tested them out.

As I said in my previous post, the items I ordered were pretty cheap. I didn't expect too much, but I have to say that the radio triggering system is really great. It seems to be made from a cheap plastic, but its really well put together and works nicely. On Amazon it said that it should trigger the flash from about 30m. Haven't tried it from that far yet but did try from about 15m and it worked every time. I ordered the version called PT-16GY with 2 recievers, in case one breaks or something. It was 14.23£ and sold by ukprostore.

About the flash and umbrella holder. It really doesn't seem much. When I first took it in my hands I thought it would break easily. When I tried it out, it held everything firmly in place and worked just fine. Haven't used any other flash holders so I wouldn't know to compare. It's sold on Amazon by BV-Electronics for 7.99£

I can't compare the lightstand with anything either, haven't used any other lightstands. It's fairly light, up to 2m in height, and nice and stable. If you scroll down you'll see a studio light that I built. I mounted it on top of the lightstand at maximum height and it was stable. It cost 10.77£ on amazon and is sold by Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

Then the Umbrella. Well, it's an umbrella. 6.97£ by BV-Electronics on amazon.

This is just a picture of the smaller things I have.

The Reflector was bought earlier in Estonia and I mentioned it in older post.

Lightstand, reflector, flash & umbrella holder, 

radio flash triggering system(2x recievers & 1x transmitter)

and umbrella.

I built a studio light also, but I think it still needs some work. I used 6x 50W halogen lights as seen below on the pictures. It works fine but, I need something to mount it better, so I could change the angle of the light. Right now its just hanging from a tripod on a wire.

I think the color temperature is somewhere around 2700K.

It gives a warm yellowish light.

 

50W 230V halogen light. 

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 Also made a softbox. I'm not going to talk much about it because, I already talked about it on another post some time ago. Only thing I'll say is that I really love how it softens the light. It works really well if I use it correctly.

Well that's it for today, I'll leave you few photos to enjoy that I took with this equipment. If you like what you see and are interested more in the equipment, you can leave a comment or just message me anywhere(facebook, G+...). You can find my details in my g+ account on the right side of my blog.

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Tamron 90mm f2.8 macro vc usd and sp 70-200mm f2.8 di vc usd

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 Yesterday I went to see Tamron lens presentation. They showed the "90mm f2.8 macro VC USD" and "SP 70-200mm f2.8 DI VC USD" lenses.
 Both of the lenses make great quality images. They are very sharp in the middle and go softer around the edges. The build quality of both seemed very good and both have the vibration compensation(which is very nice).

 I took few shots with both of them and I have to say that I really liked the 70-200mm lens. The 90mm wasn't for me. Don't know why, but it just didn't feel right in my hands. They both have really great quality, but the 70-200mm is heavy and fits nicely into my hand. I think that the weight gives better balance when shooting, although I have small Nikon D3100. It just felt so much better than the 90mm. I really recommend you try out these lenses if you have a chance.

 The prices for these lenses are pretty crispy(for ordinary user like me), but what other to expect from lenses of that quality. The 90mm starts from about $750 and 70-200mm $1500 in amazon. Here in Estonia I can get the lenses for about 800€ for 90mm and 1650€ for the 70-200mm...

 Again, if you have a chance, try out these lenses. You'll love them!

Here are few photos I took(these are straight from camera):

 SP 70-200mm f2.8 DI VC USD

70mm
F2.8
1/50
800 ISO

 SP 70-200mm f2.8 DI VC USD

160mm
F2.8
1/50
800 ISO

90mm f2.8 macro VC USD

90mm
F3.5
1/60
800 ISO










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