Given my genre of choice, tiny creatures should not present much a problem. I mean, all I do is shoot tiny creatures. I am literally surrounded by them. That led to the idea of going meta and taking a self portrait with some of my tiny creatures.
I had actually considered taking some BTS photos of the setup, but neither myself nor my wife can locate them, so they are lost to the void of history. So let me describe how I got this shot:
A simple setup, really. I took this on my dining room table, with some black cloth on the wall to block out the window light. I then setup my laptop, and arranged some characters. I set up one light, a 12" LED panel on a C-stand pointed straight in front of me pointing down at a steep angle. I tethered my camera to my laptop. This is one of the easiest shots I've done as I used the laptop I was staring at to remote control the camera, so I could literally watch the camera view as I clicked the shutter.
Easy, peasy.
This is the result.
Easy, peasy.
This is the result.
It was only after I took the shot I decided to add the narrator windows, which look like Deadpool's inner-voice from the comics. I dunno, I think it furthered the plot.
