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Posted: 8/2/2016 6:47:12 PM EDT

Made a free to me light box today. Trying to work my photo taking skills. Figured I would start small scale and work my way up to a full size rifle. I am using an LG V10 cell phone at the moment. I think with more practice using the manual settings on the phone and a better light box they could turn out better. Anyways let me know what you think so far.

Posted: 8/2/2016 6:51:13 PM EDT

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Here's a crude picture of the light box. Maybe if I used a light on both sides instead of the top it would look better. And did not use thick printer paper. But hey it was free and what I had laying around lol.

Here is another picture with a little less exposure. Hopefully that is the right term.

Posted: 8/2/2016 10:06:49 PM EDT

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WB is way off on the first one. Too much red.

Look at adding more white on the sides of the box. It will help reflect the light.

Posted: 8/2/2016 10:26:27 PM EDT

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Here's on of my "lightboxes" back in the day.

You will ultimately be limited by the limitations of your camera phone.

Posted: 8/3/2016 7:48:28 AM EDT

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WB is way off on the first one. Too much red.

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Definitely watch your white balance. Here's a 5 sec color correction to show the difference.

Looks like it's a little soft on the right also.

Posted: 8/3/2016 7:48:30 AM EDT

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WB is way off on the first one. Too much red.

Look at adding more white on the sides of the box. It will help reflect the light.

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OK I will give that try and see what happens. Thanks for the tip

Posted: 8/3/2016 7:49:42 AM EDT

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Here's on of my "lightboxes" back in the day.

You will ultimately be limited by the limitations of your camera phone.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b296/forester1/DSCN1927.jpg

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Yeah I kind of figured it would eventually come down to the phones ability. My wife has a really Canon camera I will try out. Want to make a better light box and figure that out first.... If I can lol.

Posted: 8/3/2016 9:58:51 AM EDT

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You also need to increase the exposure. Your phone's meter is seeing all the white and over compensating because the white is making the phone think it is over exposing. So the auto setting underexposes.

Posted: 8/3/2016 11:58:10 AM EDT

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You also need to increase the exposure. Your phone's meter is seeing all the white and over compensating because the white is making the phone think it is over exposing. So the auto setting underexposes.

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This. A lot of phones these days have pretty advanced cameras. You can alter the white balance and exposure comp on most some even let you have full control and a few android models even support raw.

Posted: 8/3/2016 12:13:17 PM EDT

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You also need to increase the exposure. Your phone's meter is seeing all the white and over compensating because the white is making the phone think it is over exposing. So the auto setting underexposes.

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Will it does this even if it's in manual setting mode? I ask because when I lined the phone up with the box it was super white on the screen until I messed with the settings.

I will play with the settings some tonight.

Posted: 8/3/2016 12:13:47 PM EDT

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Definitely watch your white balance. Here's a 5 sec color correction to show the difference.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/fotomonkey/arfcom/mrtwohands_zpspdxb12mt.jpg

Looks like it's a little soft on the right also.

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WB is way off on the first one. Too much red.

Definitely watch your white balance. Here's a 5 sec color correction to show the difference.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/fotomonkey/arfcom/mrtwohands_zpspdxb12mt.jpg

Looks like it's a little soft on the right also.

Wow what a difference. Yeah I am way off

Posted: 8/3/2016 12:16:10 PM EDT

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Will it does this even if it's in manual setting mode? I ask because when I lined the phone up with the box it was super white on the screen until I messed with the settings.

I will play with the settings some tonight.

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You also need to increase the exposure. Your phone's meter is seeing all the white and over compensating because the white is making the phone think it is over exposing. So the auto setting underexposes.

Will it does this even if it's in manual setting mode? I ask because when I lined the phone up with the box it was super white on the screen until I messed with the settings.

I will play with the settings some tonight.

The goal with a scene like this is to blow out, or nearly blow out the white area.

If you can spot meter on your subject (some phones allow this) you'll get pretty close to the intended result. You may still need to stick on a bit of exposure compensation to fine tune it.

Posted: 8/3/2016 1:45:20 PM EDT

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The goal with a scene like this is to blow out, or nearly blow out the white area.

If you can spot meter on your subject (some phones allow this) you'll get pretty close to the intended result. You may still need to stick on a bit of exposure compensation to fine tune it.

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You also need to increase the exposure. Your phone's meter is seeing all the white and over compensating because the white is making the phone think it is over exposing. So the auto setting underexposes.

Will it does this even if it's in manual setting mode? I ask because when I lined the phone up with the box it was super white on the screen until I messed with the settings.

I will play with the settings some tonight.

The goal with a scene like this is to blow out, or nearly blow out the white area.

If you can spot meter on your subject (some phones allow this) you'll get pretty close to the intended result. You may still need to stick on a bit of exposure compensation to fine tune it.

I just threw this together for an example.

Gun on white piece of paper. Lit by a window from the left side. Top photo is auto settings from my phone camera. Bottom photo is +2.0 exposure compensation. The strip of white on the right side is pure white. I just resized and put the pictures on one image in photoshop.

Posted: 8/21/2016 10:02:01 AM EDT

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Ok, so I downloaded Adobe Lightroom photoshop app. Bottom picture is the original one I posted earlier. Top photo is the edited one from the new app. How does it look? What changes need to be made?

Posted: 8/21/2016 8:37:41 PM EDT

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Another one I did. I don't think it's great but not bad for a cell phone and a free editing app.

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