When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

Dinyar Chavda

>Need to learn my software better so I can lighten up the background.

Dinyar

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

John Lucas

>Dinyar what color is your background. It looks like it's tan or yellowish. Ideally you get the background either lighter or darker than the piece and I usually try to do it in camera rather than in photoshop. In order to controll the background light you have to move the background further back so you can either light it or cast a shadow on it.

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

Dinyar Chavda

>Hi John:

The background is white. The problem I seem to run into is that I am using a single Home Depot worklight and Jamie's foamboard setup, with a reflector on the other side. For some reason, my pictures are coming out without enough yellow in them, so that, for example, browns are more red-brown than yellow-brown. When I correct for that in the software, it washes everything yellow/tan.

The software does allow me to restrict changes only to the photographed piece, but I haven't succeeded at that yet.

You seem to imply in your e-mail that the background should be further back from the object. In some correspondence with Jamie, he had suggested moving the object away from the light. How deep is the usual setup, i.e, from the light to the background?

Thanks

Dinyar

Suffering from "So much to learn, so few brain cells to do it with!"

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

John Lucas

>Dinyar

that's an easy one. You are using tungsten or quartz lights and using the Daylight or Automatic setting on your camera. Tungsten lights photograph as orange on daylight film or daylight or sun setting on your digital camera. If that doesn't make sense get back to me.

Oh by the way flourescent lights will photograph as green. some digital cameras have flourescent settings.

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

Dinyar Chavda

>Hi John:

I'm shooting it with the White Balance setting for Shooting in Incandescent light. The other settings are Auto, outdoors in fine weather, "Daylight" fluorescent lamps, "Warm white" fluorescent lams, and "Cool white" fluorescent lamps.

Should I be shooting with some other setting, like the fluorescent ones?

Thanks

Dinyar

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

Dinyar Chavda

>Here's a better manipulation of the photo, John.

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

JamieDonaldson

>Dinyar& John- I have tried several times to post photos to this site, and every time they are rejected with the message "graphic file too large." I use 640x480 as the smallest file size (lowest resoluting) on my Coolpix, and haven't found anywhere on site to get info to help?! What am I missing here??

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

Mike Schwing from Maryland

>Where do you find such wonderful pieces of wood? They're so remarkable, and the holes you put in them look as natural as if the other knots fell out.

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

Dinyar Chavda

>I e-mailed you separately, Jamie.

Re: When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like him!

Dinyar Chavda

>Mike:

I got this from my neighbor's yard. The house had changed hands, and the houses around here are all about 50-60 years old (with vegetation to match). The first thing that the new owners do is to rip out the old, overgrown, ratty-looking shrubbery---which is where you can find stuff like boxwood, yew, etc. This piece was being cut up and ripped out down the street from me, and I had the guy (who also does our yard) drop it off in my driveway---he prefers to do that as he does not then have to pay dump fees. It is a huge piece, and I have been working with it steadily.

The piece on the left had a lot of branch material coming in, and there were a lot of depressions. The holes you see are natural, in that they are where the hollowing tool breaks through from the inside as you are hollowing it. Actually, I had written up a description, with photos, of the whole process, as a way to turn a crotch piece, and you can find it on WOW under the file cabinet--titled something like "How to turn a crotch piece".

The piece on the right, though, is artificial, in that it was left over when I used my bandsaw to cut out another piece. I could have cut off the depression created in this piece and turned something much smaller, but I decided to see what would happen if I treated it as a natural hole, and it worked. In other words, looking from above, the piece originally looked like "A" below, and I could have cut off the concave part, leaving me with "B", but decided, instead to attempt "C", and it worked--although if you look closely at the hole in the front, it has very uniform edges, showing where the bandsaw cut was.

I do most of my turning between centers, and that allows me to manipulate the piece until I have it right.

I hope that wasn't as clear as mud!

Dinyar