Show us your setup and the final result!

You could also use something to "mark" your distance and then pre-focus.
Cheap, and works like a charm

Set up minus the camera... i was telling the guy the heats

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Clear glass on a blown out white background.

Minimal processing in LR3.

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Very nice glass shot.... what would have happend if you put a black deflector on the top too, to get the top rim marked as well?

Smaller sized pic:

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CyberPet wrote in post #13063401
Very nice glass shot.... what would have happend if you put a black deflector on the top too, to get the top rim marked as well?

You can just make out the black deflector on top on the small boom arm.

I might try to bring it even closer, but because I am blowing out the background it is making that top edge very hard to define, which would cause a customer problems creating a clipping path...

Same setup as before, making a neato poster with some antique cameras I have on display.

@Petra, Idk what you are using to trigger your flashes, but if you go into your "Live View Function Settings," down to "Silent Shoot" and set it to "Disable", it should allow you to sync flashes wirelessly while still running Live View

paradiddleluke wrote in post #13064250
@Petra, Idk what you are using to trigger your flashes, but if you go into your "Live View Function Settings," down to "Silent Shoot" and set it to "Disable", it should allow you to sync flashes wirelessly while still running Live View

The thing is set up like this:
Elinchrom strobes triggered by Elinchrom Skyport Universal. Camera on tripod set to self-timer with a remote Canon RC-6. Usb cable hooked up to MacBook Pro running EOS Utility, and EOS Utility set to Live view to see how to compose in the camera. However...

Triggering the camera so that the strobes goes off doesn't work while Live View is activated. The camera does trigger, but not the strobes.

When turning off Live View and instead shooting tethered into Lightroom, the setup works just fine, i.e. the strobes triggers. But no Live View, so I'm shooting half blind and trusting the camera to focus when I move around to try to get the images framed as I want.

paradiddleluke wrote in post #13064250
@Petra, Idk what you are using to trigger your flashes, but if you go into your "Live View Function Settings," down to "Silent Shoot" and set it to "Disable", it should allow you to sync flashes wirelessly while still running Live View

Oh, and thanks btw... I will try the silent shoot setting - I am not sure how it's set up now. I just made the default settings.

yeah check that out, I know it works with my 50D, the manual said if its third party strobe stuff then you have to turn that to disable. self portraits are a b**ch!!!

CyberPet wrote in post #13064751
Triggering the camera so that the strobes goes off doesn't work while Live View is activated. The camera does trigger, but not the strobes.

...why? The hotshoe doesn't activate if Live View is enabled?

you have to change a setting in your menus to fire the hotshoe when using live view....

paradiddleluke wrote in post #13064801
yeah check that out, I know it works with my 50D, the manual said if its third party strobe stuff then you have to turn that to disable. self portraits are a b**ch!!!

YAY!!! It works

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