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Ink in Water

May 11, 2010 Ali Radwani 11 comments

Ink ‘N’ Water

One of the funniness project, dropping inks in a water and shooting the action, you will never know what you will get.

The Equipments
o Water + Water container or Glass.
o Food color or normal ink.
o Use Camera Flash or light source.
o Camera on Stand.
o Manual Focus.
o High Speed shutter.

here is the studio set-up that i use

List of things in this Studio:

[o] Bowl of water. [semi-transparent bowl]
[o] Needle for dripping the ink.
[o] Food ink, or any normal ink.
[o] I used a Tripod and Monopod [as shown] to get the camera Top to bottom.
[o] Nikon SB900 as speed-light.
[o] Camera Nikon D90 + 35mm lens.

some original shots without any photoshop edits: [No crop, No colors.. Just resize to W800]

Sample shots after Photoshop edits

From more photos and sample shots, visit my Flickr ,, Hawee – Ta3kees

Ali,

🙂 Feel free to visit my Flickr: Hawee Ta3kees

Categories: Camera, Projects/Experiments, Strobis, techniques, photos, light, Tags: D90, Experiment, Flash, Home Made, HowTo, Nikon 105mm, Photography, photos, SB900, Strobist, Studio

Adobe LightRoom

March 27, 2010 Ali Radwani Leave a comment

Adobe LightRoom:

[Last Update: 27-03-2010]

One of best software’s to add lights effects to the image, I will use it to add some effects to my photos. Here are some examples and for more photos click on the album "Photos with LightRoom effects " or Visit my flickr Hawee-Ta3kees

for this photo, you can see the studio and the HomeMade LightBox… Click Here

For more photos visit my Flickr .. Hawee-Ta3kees

Ali,

Categories: Camera, LightRoom, Projects/Experiments, Strobis, techniques, photos, light, Tags: Camera, D90, Experiment, Light, light box, Lightroom, Nikon, Photography, photos, photoshop, Strobist, Studio

The Peach with 35mm

March 13, 2010 Ali Radwani Leave a comment

Sample shot with Nikon 35mm lens:

Session 1:

The Peach

For more photos of the Peach, see this Album

Session 2:

Eiffel with Mr. Stick

Tea Maker

For more photos, visit my Flickr Hawee-Ta3kees

Regard,

Ali

Categories: Camera, Nikon 35mm, Strobis, techniques, photos, light, Tags: D90, Experiment, Nikon, Nikon 35mm, Photography

Nikon 35mm f1.8 Lens

December 28, 2009 Ali Radwani Leave a comment

My New Lens ‘Nikon 35mm f1.8’

My New Lens Nikon 35mm f1.8 just arrived, it was $199 from amazon.com (USA Store).

::~:: Unpacking/

[o] Rear and front caps.

[o] Hood HB-46 plastic hood.

[o] Case CL-0913 pouch.

[o] Manual.

::~:: Testing the lens:

Camera setting:

* Nikon D90.

* Homemade LightBox.

* Nikon 35mm f/1.8 lens.

* Nikon SB900 Speedlight fixed on camera.

:~: First Session:

Objects used:

* Eiffel tower (big one 6 inch height and small one 1.5 inch height)

* Rubiks Cube.

* Camera on the stand.

Camera setup for the 3 photos:

     * Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
      * Aperture: f/1.8
       * Focal Length: 35 mm
       * ISO Speed: 250

* Flash: On, Return detected

The focus on the small Eiffel Tower:

The focuson the big Eiffel Tower.

The focus on the Rubiks Cube:

The Set-up and the distance in Inchs.

:~: Second Session:

Objects used:

* Eiffel tower ( 6 inch height and 1.5 inch height)

* 3 size of small scale Egyptian Pyramid.

* Camera on the stand.

The Set-up and the distance in Inchs.

The shot with above setup:

    Camera setup:
    * Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
    * Aperture: f/4.5
    * Focal Length: 35 mm
    * ISO Speed: 250
    * Exposure Bias: 0 EV
    * Flash: On, Return detected

:~: Third Session:

Objects used:

* The small Eiffel tower ( 1.5 inch height)

* The medium size (1.7 inch) of small scale Egyptian Pyramid.

* Camera on the stand.

First shot, Aperture f/5.0 :

Camera setup:

    * Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
    * Aperture: f/5.0
    * Focal Length: 35 mm
    * ISO Speed: 250
    * Exposure Bias: 0 EV
    * Flash: On, Return detected

Second shot, Aperture f/14.0 :

Camera setup:

      * Exposure: 0.3
      * Aperture: f/14.0
      * Focal Length: 35 mm
      * ISO Speed: 250
      * Exposure Bias: 0 EV
      * Flash: On, Return detected

Third shot, Aperture f/22.0 :

Camera setup:

     * Exposure: 0.8
     * Aperture: f/22.0
     * Focal Length: 35 mm
     * ISO Speed: 250
     * Exposure Bias: 0 EV
     * Flash: On, Return detected

Other photos will be published. More test photos with Nikon 35mm Click Here, to the Nikon 35mm album.

For more photos visit my Flickr: Hawee-Ta3kees

Categories: Camera, Nikon 35mm, Projects/Experiments Tags: Camera, Experiment, Nikon 35mm, Photography

Strobist Techniques

November 13, 2009 Ali Radwani 1 comment

Strobist Techniques: Part 2, [ Click here to read Part1 ]

The light is the key element in the photography, you may use the day-light, or the camera built-in flash but to play with lights and shadows you will need one or more external lights with remote fire capability. (I have the Nikon SB-900)

In this article (Part 2) i will use the same LightBox with black background and Glass as a reflection of the object, again SB-900 Nikon SpeedLight will be used in remote sync with my Nikon D90, also i will use a flashlight as another light source.

This is the LightBox with black background, and sb900 position.

The position of the of the FlashLight.

The result after Crop, you can see the reflection on the Glass.

The SB-900 placed inside the LightBox with 50% light power, [no flashlight]

Same after crop the SB-900.

The result, after croped.

other photos for different objects will be post.

Strobist Techniques

October 21, 2009 Ali Radwani 2 comments

Strobist Techniques: Part 1 , [ Click here to read Part 2 ]

In this article i will loade some photos and the studio set-up for each to see the lights position and how this will effect the final result.

Equipments

The Studio is my Kitchen.
Home Made LightBox.
Stand for the camera.
SB-900 SpeedLigth.
I will use the normal room light -ceiling light-.

This is the Studio

A shot without any lights (Just the normal room light – ceiling light-)

Same after Crop.

Light in Position 1, on lift and 100% of the light power.

Same after Crop.

Light in position 2, left, head 45%up, 50% light power.

The ligth position 2

Same after Crop.

Light in position 3, left, flash on the lightbox, 50% light power.

light position 3. (you may use stand for the flash)

Same after Crop.

Same light positin with 100% light power.

Same after Crop with 100% light power.

Light from the top of the Object (you can see it here), 80%light power.

Same After Crop

The SB900 position, inside the lightbox

Same after Crop

Another objects.

I hope it’s clear, part 2 will be for BlackBox and macro shotting.

For more photos please take time and look at my Flickr Hawee-Ta3kees

Categories: Camera, Projects/Experiments, Strobis, techniques, photos, light, Tags: Camera, D90, Experiment, Flash, Home Made, HowTo, light box, Photography, SB900, Strobist

Qatar Islamic Museum – متحف الفن الاسلامي، قطر

July 23, 2009 Ali Radwani 2 comments

Qatar Islamic Museum or Museum of Islamic Art

* Designed by architect I. M. Pei. [ Chinese-born American architect]
* Opened to the public in December 2008.
* Showcases a selection of Islamic artefacts.
* Museum have nearly 5,000 square meters of exhibition space.

Islamic Dagger wih gold and shell hand, hang with its Green & Gold Scabbard.

The Arab use this to Splashing the "Rose Water" (kind of perfume) on their guests. This masterpieces made of shell decorated by Red, Green and gold flowers.

Two Potteries decorated by flowers and nice blue, orange, green and some whaite and yellow colors.

For more about Qatar Islamic Museum visit my flickr account Hawee-Ta3kees, or Click here to go direct to the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.

Categories: Camera, History, Qatar Islamic Museum Tags: Camera, D90, Doha-Qatar, Nikon, Nikon 18-105mm, Qatar Islamic Museum, متحف الفن الاسلامي، قطر, الدوحه - قطر

What we meant by a 100% crop?

March 31, 2009 Ali Radwani Leave a comment

A 100% crop is: a part of an image that is viewed at the original resolution. Think of it like a picture puzzle, after you have it all together it makes a nice big picture, now if you take one of those little pieces out and look at it on it’s own, that is the same thing you are doing with a 100% crop. So this is an 800 x 600, 100% crop.

Source: Bill Huber blog.

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