Live View with EOS Utility and Lightroom 4
Using Canon EOS utility has a great advantage in Still Life
in that you can see in real time how you light is looking on the object. It is especially useful for placing
reflectors and gobos. I have made a list
of setting in order to use the Canon 5DMII with Live View in the EOS utility
with Lightroom 4.
There are two important settings on the Canon that must be
made:
1.
Go to the Menu with a wrench and two dots.
2.
Go to Live View/Movie func. Set
3.
Set Silent shoot. To Disable. (Must have this set so that the flash will
fire when we make a picture with Live View on.
I didn’t know about this setting in our demonstration and that is why
the flash wasn’t firing)
4.
In Menu go to the camera symbol and scroll down
to C.FnIV Operation/Other and go to option 1 and set on #3 AE lock/Metering +
AF start. This will set the focus start
to the button on the camera with AF-ON and will disable the shuttle button from
trying to focus.
Now open the Canon EOS utility. You might have to open it in
applications. You should have the camera
tethered and on at this point.
1.
Click on Camera settings/Remote shooting. You should see the remote shooting screen
with all you camera settings. The
settings can be changed on this screen.
2.
Next go to the Preferences Screen
a.
Basic
Settings only check the Show main window button.
b.
Destination
Folder change the folder to Watched Folder on the desktop and keep
everything else unchecked.
c.
File Name Do not modify
d.
Download
Images set to Images not yet
downloaded
e.
Remote
Shooting check box for Save also on the camera’s memory card
f.
Linked
software None
g.
OK
Now open Lightroom and make the following changes:
1.
File®Auto Import®Auto
Import Setting
2.
Set
the Watched folder on the desktop
3.
Set
the destination folder to somewhere not on the desktop.
4.
File
Naming set to Filename.
5.
Make
sure the Enable Auto Import is checked
6.
OK
Go back to the remote shooting screen and press the Set-up menu then
press the Live View/Movie func.set. button.
1.
Under
LV func. Setting check Stills only
2.
Under
Screen settings click Still display
3.
OK
Now click Live View shoot button
1.
Set
the white balance to Auto (give a better preview image and does a decent job
with the capture)
2.
Play
with the focus setting and see what works.
3.
Take a
picture with the remote button and make sure the flash is firing.
We also talked about using the PocketWizard Multi Max on SpeedCycler.
1.
Press
the Menu button.
2.
Press
A for Advanced Menu
3.
Press
D for SpeedCycler
4.
Set
the channel (Let’s say 17) and have A and B activated by pressing the letter to
high light it.
5.
Now
set the internal pocket wizards on the 1200R packs by turning on off and then
set the MultiMax to 17A only and hold down the test button while someone turns
on the 1st 1200R pack and the pack fires. This could take a few seconds. Now turn off that pack. Change the MultiMax to read 17B, hold down
the test button while someone turns on the 2nd 1200R pack and the
pack fires. Turn on the 1st
pack. Now set the Multimax so that it is
set on SpeedCycler on channel 17 and both A and B are highlighted. Each time you press the test button one
strobe will fire at a time and in sequence. ABABAB etc.
6.
If you
are using the 2400 packs, use the PocketWizard III and set one to 17A and the
other to 17B.
Used AutoAlign to re align layers
One light from under light table
Used MultiMax to capture images.
Production Stills by Roy Rochlin.
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