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 dpmmn
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Posted: 10/19/2005 12:42:55 AM
I always like the way this pic turned out and it happened by mistake
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Paul
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Posted: 10/19/2005 12:46:07 AM
I have a few pieces of felt material that I use - neutral colors. My favorite is about a 22% gray which helps the meter a bit. Toss that guy on the work bench and away ya' go. Fold it up when you're done.
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Posted: 10/19/2005 12:48:15 AM
this will have to be my first TAG! great post.
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Atvar
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Posted: 10/19/2005 12:49:05 AM
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Posted: 10/19/2005 12:50:31 AM
Divert the internal flash with a chunk of paper or aluminum in front of it, angled upwards. Light the scene with 2 slave flashes (about $20 each for cheapies on eBay). OR, turn the flash off, set up the lighting wtih standard tungsten lightbulbs (halogen/etc), take picture, and adjust for color balance later. BTW: EXCELLENT TUTORIAL, cugir!!! |
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dpmmn
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Posted: 10/19/2005 1:02:53 AM
WHat do you think of this pic???
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Doug_H
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Posted: 10/19/2005 1:05:22 AM
Tagaroonie
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Posted: 10/19/2005 1:51:31 AM
[Last Edit: 10/19/2005 1:58:18 AM by EternalVigilance]
you got nothin on me
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SteyrAUG
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Posted: 10/19/2005 2:02:46 AM
Tag.
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SteyrAUG
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Posted: 10/19/2005 2:07:45 AM
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Posted: 10/19/2005 2:26:39 AM
You still have the canon fuze stain on your tile, don't you? |
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Skammy
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Posted: 10/19/2005 3:01:32 AM
Nice
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Tweak
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Posted: 10/19/2005 4:18:37 AM
[Last Edit: 10/19/2005 4:20:27 AM by Tweak]
well hell lemme show my stuff here
from my example pics too much glare  not enough light  out of focus with crappy Paint improvements  fuzzy with glare  fuzzy out of focus and not enough light combo    luckily Tweak Industries has hired a competent professional photographer to provide future photographic services. |
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SteyrAUG
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Posted: 10/19/2005 1:25:27 PM
It came off.  |
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Posted: 10/21/2005 3:41:37 PM
That glare is your friend. Many guns are black. The best way to make the black details visible is to put some highlights on them...ie: glare. The glare on your pistol looks good in your pic. It's the glare on the table that looks bad. If you substituted a different background like black canvas, leather, wood, tac-gear, etc. then it would look ok. If you really want to shoot on that shiny table with the built in flash then you need to change your angle relative to the table. With light, the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection, like a bank shot in pool. If the ball/light comes in at 30 degree angle to a flat surface..it should leave at 30 degrees. It's like a ricochet. You shot the flash at that flat shiny surface at 90 degrees angle and it bounced right back into your lens. So to get the glare in the pistol but not the table try propping the pistol up with something to change its angle relative to the table and shoot closer to 90 degrees to the pistol but not 90 degrees to the table. |
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SavageSlackie
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Posted: 10/21/2005 3:44:50 PM
nice pics!
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chewbacca
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Posted: 10/21/2005 3:48:41 PM
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DoctorNo
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Posted: 10/21/2005 4:02:11 PM
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mjohn3006
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Posted: 10/21/2005 4:16:42 PM
very nice! tag.
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Posted: 10/21/2005 4:28:25 PM
Those are nice images. That top pic is a great example of sucessful use of on camera flash (ar at least 'on axis' flash). The glare from the light really brings out the details in the pistol. That same glare really works with the shiny background too. It looks like you are mixing flash with incandescent light. Actually upon closer exaqmination, it looks like you are not mixing light but I already typed the following... >>Flash is the same color as daylight...about 5000 degrees kelvin. which is a blue light. Incandeent light like tungsten and halogen is yellow light in comparison. Household incandescent lights are around 2500-3200 degrees kelvin. In some pics part of the image is yellow and the part closer to the camera is 'neutral' in color. The camera is grey balancing for the flash which makes the other lights n the image look yellow. If you need to do a wide angle shot with the backgrond lit by tungsten, it would be best to bring in a tungsten light like a home depot shop light to use as fill in the foreground insteadof the flash so the colors match.<< I darkend the vertical blinds and yellow wall for tactical points using adjustmant layers. Ichiro does this quite often. He also overdoes it often and it still works. Firearms lend themselves to these type of dark images.   |
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Posted: 10/21/2005 4:38:00 PM
dpmmn, that picture is f_n' awesome.  |
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chewbacca
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Posted: 10/21/2005 4:38:35 PM
[Last Edit: 10/21/2005 4:49:05 PM by chewbacca]
Here is my humble attempt. Any reccomendations would be apprciated.
 ETA: What photoserver should I use to make the pic smaller, the pic looks better smaller? Also, this pic is taken qwith a 1999 2 megapixel camera that I have no clue how to use. |
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Posted: 10/21/2005 4:53:17 PM
That's what I'm talkin' about. A simple, reusable setup that provides perfect pics every time. Nice setup. |
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Posted: 10/21/2005 5:18:49 PM
[Last Edit: 10/21/2005 6:46:51 PM by cugir]
I think it's a nice collection but the pic is 'washed out'. There are no blacks. It'd be best to reshoot a number of pics and pics the one with the best exposure. It is possible to improve the image in photoshop. First add some black by moving the black point in curves over to the right, then adjust the curve to taste. www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=121&t=396839&page=1&#-1  Beefing up the contras adds too much color to the stocks. Reduce this by using 'hue/saturation' control in photoshop to reduce overall saturation or just the saturation in the reds...or both.  A little more comtrast via curves and some white 'paint' on the buttom near the floor and it looks pretty good.  |
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Posted: 10/21/2005 5:28:34 PM
Great post.
I think that this is the best picture I've taken of my rifle in the past:  and of my old HK USP 45 Compact:  |
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