Somewhere in March 09, I tested shooting product with 3 basic studio lightings surrounding the object. The object used to be shoot was the Nikon D60 with Sigma 70-300mm APO lens. Well, this was my first time testing with studio lightings. It was a fun time playing with the lights, but it’s pretty hard to control the light source, as well as the camera settings.
The lightings were all triggered by wireless triggers. But for Sony user like me, I need an additional hotshoe that convert Alpha hotshoe to standard hot shoe mount in order to plugged in the wireless trigger. I bought the converter from Yamiya at RM60 just to test this out.. –_-”
The basic setup for the camera were always F10, 1/250, & ISO100 in a studio shooting environment, but of course you can always change depending on your light source power also.
White Balance I used Auto mode, but if you were to try, you can play around with the white balance setting.
As for the color setting, I used Vivid, which I like and use most of the time. But some friends don’t recommend Vivid.
This is how we placed the lightings, and surrounding the Nikon D60 + Sigma lens. If you have any chance to test with studio lightings, I’m sure you’ll love it and sure having fun with it 
Let me know your comments & thoughts, okay?
Cheers~~
Tags: gabriel lai photography, hotshoe, indoor-studio-shoot, nikon, nikon-d60, Random, Review, sigma dg macro, sigma lens, sony-a350, sony-alpha, studio-lightings, studio-shooting
I never had a chance to play with studio lighting.
But i always like product shoot with white background..
perhaps a tripod can help much and reduce the chance of handshake.
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@hOcmun next time if got chance, I’ll call you up and play with studio lightings, okay? Btw, you don’t really need a tripod as you’re shooting at minimum of 1/250 shutter speed
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War…so many things to do to snap a photo? Ha
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@tekkaus dude, I tot the War is real War…. hahah…
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sure, i’ll be rather free the first month or so after i graduate in May. haha
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I m gonna have my first ever foretaste of studio shooting come 3rd May @ Sungai Long, Cheras……EXCITING~! Will tell u my experience when we meet up ya!
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@Anson Can I join you ah? Wanna test out also la
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hi..
i’m interested in photography but not knw hw to start wif…i thought nak buy nikon d60 as my 1st step…any advice?
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Gabriel Lai Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
@radziah I’m sure you’ll start to love photography once you got a camera
Try to explore what you have ya!
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ngee…ok..tq so much 4 ur courage..huhu..but wil it b ok if bought 2nd hand camera??i mean there toomuch isk too take ait??
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Gabriel Lai Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
@radziah hmmm, quite a subjective questions. I have few friends using 2nd hand body as well, and some commented not bad, no problem but of course some ppl will advise you to get new body. If you’re unsure to get which body yet, get an affordable one, either new or 2nd, when you hold it on your hand, your guts feeling will tell you whether should buy or not, while I’m ok with 2nd hand body, cos I use it before lor
, enjoy!!
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Hi. I guna NIKON D60. Nak tukar lense yg serba boleh. Suka take pic mikro dan jauh. So lense apa yg sesuai?
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Gabriel Lai Reply:
December 24th, 2009 at 12:51 am
@sonata if you’re focusing on Micro, go for Micro lens. I think Nikon ade Nikkor 60mm f2.8 micro lens… else, spot for Tamron SP90 or Tamron 60mm micro lens… but I have yet to try the lenses, cos I tak main micro sangat
Hope this helps..
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Yesterday tengok Nikkor 55-200 VR (RM950) and plus makro lense Raynox (RM280). U rasa ok ker lense ni dan the price?
I baca gak ada yg komen :
1. sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG Macro HSM bgaus? VR perlu ada or nor? Tahu harga?Apa pendpat u?
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Gabriel Lai Reply:
January 1st, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@sonata dude, bear in mind that if you use Raynox, you’ll need manual focus and needs lotsa patient.. that was the reason i sold off my raynox
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I am a Sony user. You said you bought a RS 60 aadapter from Yamiya to convert to a standard flash mount. Did it work well? Were there any issues?
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