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11th October 2008, 12:53 PM #31
Nice photo, well lit and well framed
and bluddy great bowl
I'd take extra care in lighting when taking photos of a bowl like that
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25th October 2008, 02:41 AM #32SENIOR MEMBER
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My oldest daughter is rather good at having her eyes shut. A good countermeasure is
Shut your eyes
Open your eyes
<click>
Mostly though I go candid, and if people "pose" I ask them to ignore me.
I also have an accessory flash, not just the built-in. I stick a baby bouncer to it, and I have diffused flash. I think it costs about two stops.
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25th October 2008, 02:52 AM #33SENIOR MEMBER
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Your lighting and exposure are right when there's no detail washed out in the highlights and there's still detail in the darkest area.
Most of my photography has been monochrome,aand when I used file my weapon of choice as a Mamiya C330. http://cgi.ebay.com/Mamiya-C330-Prof...QQcmdZViewItem
Strewth, look at that price! I've got three lenses for mine.
I'd not consider myself an expert either, but I was a member of the Waverley Camera Club for a while.
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25th October 2008, 02:55 AM #34SENIOR MEMBER
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I meant to mention Ansel Adams who used to shoot large format.
http://www.masters-of-photography.co...fall_full.html
As stunning as those pics are on the screen, one really needs to see his prints. He used to go to a lot of trouble getting the exposure right so printing would be easy.
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2nd November 2008, 06:00 PM #35Hewer of wood
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Yeah, that brings back memories.
Zone exposure system ... f22 club ... Weston, Minor White.
I recently read Adams collected letters ... his photos are better!Cheers, Ern
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3rd January 2009, 07:16 PM #36
Photo Tent
Hello everyone,
I need some help with my photography. I use a Canon E0S400D digital camera. The images of my work look great on my computer, but when compressed and posted, I feel look quite ordinary. Here's how I have tried to remedy the problem: I recently made a photo tent to better control the lighting of my images. I use two 125 Watt equivalent daylight fluoro bulbs in movable lamps above and beside the tent, which I don't think are bright enough. Does anyone else use a photo tent? If so, what lights do you use and how do you arrange them?
I have switched from Shrink Pic to Photoshop to resize my images and have control over compression values. Which software do you use and do you control compression when resizing? My photo tent is quite large, an 800 mm cube, in order to accomodate this turning (see pic), which is 750 mm x 350 mm. Does the image posted look okay on your computer? I am certainaly no computer or photographic wizard, am I on the right track?
Feel free to comment, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
FredoA computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing
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3rd January 2009, 07:29 PM #37GOLD MEMBER
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Fredo, you don't say what the posted image is being used for or what size you are sending. Are they being printed by the receiver or just being viewed on the screen. Also, you need to be aware that every viewer/receiver will see the image slightly differently unless all screens are calibrated. So you might "tweek" the image on your system so that it looks just right, but on the receiving monitor it may look brighter, have colour shifts, or look very contrasty. If it is just among friends, then this may not be relevant. As for printing the posted image, this is another world if reproduction is critical.
Bob
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3rd January 2009, 07:42 PM #38
BobR,
In this case the image is for posting here on the forum and is resized to 600x400 pixels and not for printing. The images look good on my computer before they are posted but not so good after they are posted, does that help?
FredoA computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing
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3rd January 2009, 08:05 PM #39
800x533 is just nice for this forum, your 400D standard imported full res to photoshop is 3888x2592 at 72dpi(huge 137x92cm!), convert the image size to 800x533 at 300dpi(6.77x4.52cm)to do this right click in top bar of the picture box and select image resize, change the dpi setting 1st then make sure the "Constrain proportions" box is ticked now set the image width to 800 pixels the height will change automatically to 533 pixels click Ok.
Hint after doing the above, in photoshop hold down shift~control~alt and then push "s" to process the photo for posting on the web, here you can play with the quality settings to keep the image under 100k or so
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3rd January 2009, 08:16 PM #40Member
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Hey Fredo,
Pics don't look too bad. It is harder getting a pic of a large object but. The background and the lighting have to be just right. I found photographing pens the lights have to be pointed towards the front or the shadow makes the pics loo a bit off. That may just be my setup but. I use an old digi cam with a Chinese tent but the pics do seem to be ok. With a camera like yours with a bit of playing around it should all be good. You can take tonnes of pics for no cost so take a few in the same position, change the lighting angle, take some more, move the item, take some more. You will find that pointing a light straight at the item without any filter/sheet to disperse the light has a bad effect on the pic. It puts a real shine on the item.
An effect that I like is using black perspex to create a nice reflection off the item. The perspex table came free with my tent so luckily I did not have to make it. Also normal sheets may not be the best thing to use to disperse the light, they seem to block a lot of the bright light. Most proper ones are made out a synthetic material that seems very close to melting if the lights are on too long.
I don't know which thread it was but Simo put up all the settings for his digi cam and basically all his pics come up perfect. May pay to find it and try them. Every camera is different but.
Photoshop is a high end photo editor. You should not not have too much trouble with the pics. Make sure to touch up all the backgound that is not all white. I have done something wrong with some pics after compression. The edges didn't come out smooth, sort of all jagged. Still don't know what I did wrong.
OK thanks for reading my ramblings.
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3rd January 2009, 08:32 PM #41Hewer of wood
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Might be something useful here Fredo:
http://www.woodcentral.com/articles/...cles_836.shtmlCheers, Ern
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3rd January 2009, 08:34 PM #42
Harry,
Kind of tried that, not exactly the dimensions you mentioned but here's the pic. Is this better?
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3rd January 2009, 08:38 PM #43Hewer of wood
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Think your prob is at source, not post-processing.
The image looks flat, and you have two shadows.
See if the tips linked to at post 6 are any use.Cheers, Ern
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3rd January 2009, 09:08 PM #44
Ern,
Could well be, I am using just a plain bed sheet on the tent and as regulated said it may not be defusing the light correctly and I suspect my lights are not bright enough. It appears John Lucas (in your link) uses much more light than I have, I guess I will have to go back to the drawing board and experiment, mainly with the lighting. The camera has to be ok, but the operator may be a little suspect.
Thanks Ern
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Fredo, the advice already given should get you on the right track.
Bob
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