Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Photographing work
Gil
>Ok ok I've done it. I've been searching all over to find information about photography and wood turning. How do you guys get such good pictures? Is there a website which has instructions? I remember seeing a photobooth construction page one time, now I can't find it. If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Gil
Re: Photographing work
John Lucas
>Gil
I have most of that information on my home computer. I'll be home around 7 tonight and can send it to you. I don't have my latest article on photographing small items using a styrafoam cooler on the computer yet. Haven't had time to reduce the file sizes of the photos.
Re: Photographing work
Joel Hunnicutt
>There is a book put out by the crafts report magazine that really helped me out a bunch. It is called aptly "Photographing your craft work" I think you can buy it throught their website. A dummy's guide to photoshop has also been a big help.
Re: Photographing work
Gil
>Thanks guys. Thanks for the email John. Quite the little booth you have setup. Maybe I'll make one out of some wood tomorrow morning.
Thanks again.
Re: Photographing work
Wood Spinner
>Here are a couple of pics that may help. Please this is a very technical method. Pick up the parts at a specialty store like Walmart.
Hope this helps. I edit in Paint. Paint is part of what comes with the XP computer operating system.
Feel free to call me for help.
Good turning and be safe
Bill
second pic
Wood Spinner
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Re: second pic
John Lucas
>Good Job. Bouncing the light off of a white ceiling produces a light quality very similar to the Photo booth that Jamie,Larry and I try to teach. Works pretty well most of the time but exposures can get a little long. Give it a try. Sometimes you'll get some color shifts if the walls in your shooting area are some color other than white. Unfortunately this usually affects the shadow areas and not the hightlights so when you try to correct it in photo shop you can have problems.
Re: second pic
Wood Spinner
>I forgot to say that many times I also use the flash to help with shadow.
Thanks Bill
Re: Photographing work
jim
>Same camera and settings
Same light
Same spot (dedicated spot)
Same background
Edit less
jim
