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Pen Photography

John Lucas

>All you pen makers out there, don't laugh too hard. These are my first 2 pens. the rest have all been given away.

Here is my small product shooting rig. I use a white stryofoam cooler with some part of it cut out. figure out what angle you want to shoot the pens and then postion the cooler so it will cover the pens but not show up in the camera.

I use one quartz light with my digital camera set to the tungsten setting. I overexposed by 2/3 f stop because I had so much white in the scence. Looked great on my monitor but was a little orange when I brought it up on photoshop. I think that's a computer thing. I used the eyedropper tool to correct it back to white.


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David Eaves

>Cool, thanks for showing your setup, it diffuses the light really well.

If your camera can do custom whitebalance have you ever tried that to get the white spot on?

The pens look good too, as I said in another post all these pens posted here are getting me round to the idea of turning pens

David

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JamieDonaldson

>I sometimes use a white plastic drywall putty bucket- just cut out one side-about 1/3 of the diameter of the rim. Place it up-side down around the subject and arrange light on either or both sides, then shoot thru the hole. No rocket science involved!

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John Lucas

>Jamie

I tried white pickle barrels but they had a really strong yellow cast. I'm sure there are white buckets that do work. Between the two of us we've probably played with everything over the years.

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