NIKON Z 5
CANON EF16-35mm ƒ4L IS USM
ISO 100 I 16mm I ƒ5.6 I 274 sHow was the cover picture created? Three steps were necessary to achieve this result. First, I covered a beer coaster with black paper. I held this beer coaster in my right hand in front of the camera. I had previously set the focal length on the lens to 35mm and the focus to 28cm. I released the camera with my left hand, took a NOCTIGON DM11 and briefly illuminated the right hand from below.
I then covered the lens with black Molton, switched on the light to mount a frame with a hexagon template on the previously placed tripod in front of the camera. Then I turned off the light, removed the Molton from the lens and illuminated the template by shining a flashlight with a blue filter and black fiberglass over the template from behind. I repeated this five times, reducing the focal length of the lens each time.
Then I covered the lens with molleton again, removed the template, set the focus to infinity and switched on the previously aligned rotation aid and the lamp mounted there. Now I removed the lens cover for one rotation of the flashlight, covered the lens and rotated the camera 120° around the optical axis. This last step was carried out a total of three times. You can see the result above.
