Blenbo light setup
by LiMuBei on Apr.04, 2012, under Blender Modeling, Raytracing
Playing around with Blender and Cycles again a bit. It’s great how well photography light setups carry over!
Photography + Blender = FUN!
by LiMuBei on Mar.11, 2012, under Blender Modeling, Photography, Raytracing
Quick post right now as I unfortunately don’t have time to break this down in detail. I played around with compositing in Blender. This means that you can – for example – add virtual objects to photographs. I made a model of this little fellow (inspired by the Danbo) and tried to add him to a macro shot of mine. I think it turned out quite ok, though is still a lot of room left for improvements. Essentially you just have to get the perspective and the light right. And then it’s just compositor magic. Rendered with cycles using CUDA and 256 samples.
Played around with Blender compositing
Download the blend file:
Blenbo Compositor Testscene - Testscene for compositing in Blender using Cycles render engine.UPDATE: Spent some time to refine this a little bit. I’m still not too satisfied with the results, but hopefully support from Cycles for this stuff will be better soon and things should be easier. For everyone interested just the short idea behind this:
You create a ground plane and recreate any objects in the photo that should interact (have a shadow) with the 3D content. In the example below it is the floor and the lemon. Then I created two render layers, one for the main subject, and one for the scene objects. The first is just your usual combined render while the second is a “shadow only” layer. These two are rendered and then the magic happens in the compositor where image, shadow layer and main layer are assembled into the final image.
Some minor adjustments
And this is to show how the 3D parts are set up:
Wire frame blend
Wallpaper
by LiMuBei on Jan.22, 2012, under Photography
Been in Frankfurt for some photo shooting with my friend Tilo. We went on top of the Main Tower where there is a observation platform located above the 54th floor. It was super windy and kinda cold but it was a great view. I tried different things, panoramas and HDRs and today managed to put something decent together. This is a wallpaper friendly size 
Frankfurt by night HDR wallpaper
You can see the other results in my Flickr stream.
How to: bright flower macro
by LiMuBei on Dec.17, 2011, under Photography, Tutorials
Very simple and easy setup for bright white flower macro shots. What you need:
- flower
- two speedlites
- white styrofoam plates
Place the styrofoam plates in a L-shape and point the speedlites at them. The flower is positioned in the middle of this setup with the camera on the same height as the blossom pointing towards the styrofoam plates. Now adjust the speedlites’ strengths as you see fit (I used 1/16 and 1/8). See this setup shot:
Setup for bright flower macro
And the result:
Resulting bright flower macro
Something new
by LiMuBei on Dec.09, 2011, under Photography
A lot of time passed, since I posted something here. It’s because I’m in the process of finishing up my PhD thesis which is taking a lot of time away from other (more fun) things. But every now and then I allow myself some time for recreational things like photography. Recently I saw an image at klick.de (ordered some prints there) which inspired me to recreate that. Recreating images that you like is really a good exercise, especially if you have no description of the light setup or camera settings. Makes you look at the image really carefully to try and find out what the direction of the light is, the camera angle and what post processing might have been involved.
The picture in question for me this time was something erotic. A woman’s legs in nice stockings, stretched to the sky and crossed. Together with the vintage style processing this gives a really nice image. You can check it out here.
To recreate this, there’s of course need for some beatiful legs, which fortunately were available I set up a white background and two speedlights which where pointed at two large white styrofoam boards to give a diffuse lighting. These lights were located left and right of the camera at a 45° angle to the model, straight forward and simple. I experimented a bit with the power of the speedlights and at the end the one on the right was set to 1/2 while the other was at 1/8. This way I had a little bit more light coming from the right. First result is this one:
Recreating vintage style photography
Post processing involved masking out the legs and replacing the background with a solid color. On this image I then added a texture to the background with very high opacity to just give a slight pattern. Some adjustments to the levels and a bit of vignetting complete the treatment in PSE. I then took it to Nik ColorEfex 3 and applied the Old Photo filter to give the final result.
The second image was a different take on the subject with a different pose. This was to get more attention to the nice shoes
Recreating vintage style photography
Post processing was rather similar to the first image, except no texture to the background. I also had to do some sharpening on this one and added a more pronounced vignette. Then again, ColorEfex for the final look.
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