Assault Camera

[Loose Canon]

A moment of satirical whimsy in between shoots!

[chauncey]

Looks like Terry is off his meds again.

[Stagecoach]

Nikon models have the advantage here in that they don't have white sights that help to make you an easier target

[Loose Canon]

Nikon models have the advantage here in that they don't have white sights that help to make you an easier target

I think I thought the label said "cannon"! I wonder where the heck I left those meds?

[Shadowman]

good one.

[Manfred M]

Great imagination! For your next trick, I would like to see you pick it up.

A bit of green screen work perhaps?

[Rita]

At first, and very quick, glance I thought you had just put the lens on top of a rifle. Then, I looked again and now I can't stop laughing. This is priceless, I love it.

[purplehaze]

Whether on your meds or off, you are brilliant, Terry.

[Donald]

At first, and very quick, glance I thought you had just put the lens on top of a rifle.

That was exactly my reaction.

I know you guys over the pond have a powerful gun lobby, but this is just getting carried away!!

Wonderfully imaginative.

[Spam]

That was exactly my reaction.

Mine too. And I didn't figure it out until seeing Rita's comment. Brilliant (the pic, that is, not me, clearly).

[billabongtim]

Can't abide guns, but that's fabulous.
Well done.

[John 2]

Brilliant!

[bnnrcn]

Didn't suprise me very much as it has come from you Terry, one of your brilliant ideas

[dem]

Nice one.

I cannot stop laughing about the barrel.

Where is the trigger? Wireless?

[JBW]

make my day tell me you shoot with a canon

[Jimr1961]

I guess that ends the Nikon vs Canon debate :-)

[Loose Canon]

Thank you for commenting guys! It is appreciated.

Been a little hectic so I’m a bit late in my responses. I’m not a big fan of posting something and then abandoning it.

This was just something I thought was fun and satirical, and I had the set-up ready.

The shot is not green screened. The BG is actually a wood tabletop I have.

It’s a PITA actually because it’s a high gloss finish. I love the grain but the finish is like shooting into a mirror as far as lighting goes.

For the lighting I thought it would be simple, one framer, easy lighting! As usual, I was wrong!

I tried a lot of options and ended up with an overhead light wearing a stripbox a good bit behind (top since the shot is straight on, or in this case down) the Assault Camera which centered a strip of light on the subject. Of course, that wasn’t going to cut it alone since the shadows were looking a bit hard. So some fill was needed. I positioned two additional lights in stripboxes at approx. 45* of the subject and below (bottom of frame) and bounced them from above making it a three light shot. Sometimes the best lighting is the least complicated and “back-to-basic”! Enough fill to ease the shadows and light it fairly nicely! I did get it in one frame!

That wasn’t the end of it by any stretch! The shot was a tabletop and shot (kind of) straight down from a ladder I was teetering on! The problem, as one might guess, is that I planned on hand-holding, and leaning out over the tabletop to get the camera sensor parallel with the tabletop (or as close to) to maintain the vertical seams/grain in the joints of the wood boards in the surface. To add to the pain and suffering I had to use a wide angle lens and it was shot at 24mm. So add distortion to the mix. I wasn’t able to hang directly over the subject to get it perfect without taking a header, and I didn’t want to take the time to set it up properly with booms, etc. and go tethered. So I framed it in the top half of the viewfinder to at least get the verticals as close to one direction off kilter as possible and correct in post. A bit of barrel distortion was similarly corrected and it seems pretty close to a decent directly overhead shot to me.

At least for just a fun shot to do!

[Wavelength]

Killing shot!!!

[Dave A]

Wish more people would shoot with that.

Dave