Photographing Tiny Turnings Again #1

9/29/04, 4:23 AM #1

Andrew Hilton
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Photographing Tiny Turnings Again #1

Andrew Hilton

>A bit better this time?

I do see that I have some sanding to do on the bottoms where I parted them off though. Hadn't seen that before! I don't use magnification to turn them so I don't see that. And I also see that I need to figure out a better way to apply the finish. Those are the white fibers of the lint-free cloth that I use to apply it I suppose.

Well, these were warmups today as I hadn't turned any tiny ones lately and I'm going to attempt some smaller ones tomorrow morning that'll fit into Trumans' ear. Did I say before that these are all hollowed just as in a normal-scale goblet?

Thanks for the help guys. I'm getting there....

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9/29/04, 4:24 AM #2

Andrew Hilton
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>Another pic.

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9/29/04, 4:24 AM #3

Andrew Hilton
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Andrew Hilton

>And the last one...

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9/29/04, 4:38 AM #4

Al Crandall
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Re: When did they put Truman on the Rosevelt dime?

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9/29/04, 12:27 PM #5

Andrew Hilton
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Re: When did they put Truman on the Rosevelt dime?

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>I AM from Missouri, afterall. Call it wishful thinking?

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9/30/04, 12:59 AM #6

JamieDonaldson
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Re: When did they put Truman on the Rosevelt dime?

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>Andrew- you are nuts!!! But the photos are improving- what did you do besides crop the file size?

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9/30/04, 1:17 AM #7

Andrew Hilton
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>"Andrew- you are nuts!!!"

I've heard that before. Actually, lots of things before but let's not repeat them here, eh? ha!

"But the photos are improving- what did you do besides crop the file size?"

Before cropping, I did do a little sharpening in the image editing software but I couldn't tell any difference (which I normally do) so I undid that and just cropped them.

As far as taking the pictures, the biggest difference was using the zoom. I went up to around 3x. That's still in the optical zoom range of the camera. Getting into the digital zoom (up to 10x on this camera) was just terrible as was expected.

I also put a ton more light on the pieces by using a spotlight as well as the bulbs I was using before.

I guess the last thing somewhat different was just playing around with the magnifying glass and camera position a LOT until I got things just right. Then I kept the camera on the tripod still while moving just the magnifying glass around a tiny bit to focus in on each globlet individually.

I'm going to keep playing with it and looking into the macro lense and the diopters that John mentioned.

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