Thread: amazingly figured BOW JR gent

Troy, congrats on getting a light tent

Good looking pen, nice work.

I take it the light tent is white?

If it is, your camera is underexposing, light meters work by giving you the correct exposure for a medium grey.

You have two options

1 Get a medium grey bit of art board, get your correct exposure off that, then take you pic with that exposure.

2 (what I do) take a bracket of about 3-4 photos, normal exposure, +1/2, +1, +1 1/2, + 2stops over exposed. most of the time the +1 1/2 stops will be the one you want.

What camera are you using? Can you do manual exposure settings.

I use a digital SLR, use the Aperture Priority mode, set the f stop to around 11 - 16, the camera picks the shutter speed. It is slow (no flash) so it sits on a tripod.

Confused yet?

Here's a quick "fiddle" in Picasa

BOW J R gent #3.jpg

Still not quite right, but better original exposure will fix that.

thanks fred
i got a nikon p500 with huge zoom but not interchangable lenses and only using the idiot setting ( auto ) will have to play with that after reading the manual FIRST

Nicely done mate that's a spectacular pen

Ian

Nice work on that pen Troy, beautiful timber too

Originally Posted by mkypenturner

thanks fred
i got a nikon p500 with huge zoom but not interchangable lenses and only using the idiot setting ( auto ) will have to play with that after reading the manual FIRST

Once you have finished reading the manual, you may also want to have a look here

Product photography - how to improve your product photos

Good one Troy!!!