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24-NOV-2007 Victor Engel

I know it like...

Canon EOS 5D ,Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
1/125s f/4.0 at 85.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Canon DSLR Challenge26-Nov-2007 18:15
I missed that somehow. I was thinking of doing my fingers, but I wanted a bigger challenge. I think yours turned out better by the way. -- Victor
Guest 26-Nov-2007 17:45
Neat!
Reminds me of something I had done a while back:http://www.pbase.com/ctfchallenge/image/56820984
-Cat
jnconradie26-Nov-2007 07:01
Wow. Very interesing... something I have never considered. Thanks for the explanations.
Canon DSLR Challenge26-Nov-2007 04:39
By the way, I encourage you to try shooting a flash into the palm of your hand just to feel the heat. At full power, it can actually be painful. Amazing, isn't it, that you can feel light this way? -- Victor
Canon DSLR Challenge26-Nov-2007 04:37
I've changed the title to what I originally was going to use. Better? I'm not sure why I changed my mind. As to light source, I used two flashes. A Vivitar flash is mounted on my Canon 5D, and a Sigma flash is pointing up from a stack of CD cases that's just the right height to achieve good focus of the hairs. The Sigma flash was set to slave mode. The trick was to block like from the Vivitar from illuminating my hand yet allow it to trigger the other flash. I did this using a black panel that I held in place with the same hand I triggered the shutter with. In order to do that, I put the camera in timer mode (by the way, how do you change the timer delay? I looked through the CF options and didn't see anything). -- Victor
Canon DSLR Challenge26-Nov-2007 00:41
Victor, what was the light source? - Kelly
Canon DSLR Challenge25-Nov-2007 23:44
I like this! For the title, how about "Backside." Let 'em guess! *wink* ~Lydia
Guest 25-Nov-2007 16:40
needs a more evocative title.

Neat shot and well done.
Milos Markovic24-Nov-2007 23:11
Perfect!
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