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.
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.
How to Capture a series of images using different lights:
Use the PocketWizard MultiMax set to transmit.
Press the menu key and then press A:Advanced Menu
Press D:Speedcycler.
Set the channel to any number that is 17 or higher.
Press A-D depending on the number of separate lights you want to capture.
Using the Profoto 1200R train it to be the number set on the transmitter and one of the letters starting with A. You can also use the PocketWizard III to set channel numbers 17 and above and one of the 4 letters.
Now each time you press the MultiMax it will set off the lights in sequence and then repeat the sequence over and over.
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