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Well, if you need gun photos we have more than 24,000 super high resolution photos of guns on Firearms Multimedia Guide DVD. It comes on 8.5 GB DVD for your Windows computer. Check out more at: DELETED
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In place of a lightbox, if you have an external flash that can be aimed up, bounce flash off the ceiling can provide soft even lighting. These were shot with a D200, 28-70/2.8, sb800 aimed up at the ceiling with the guns sitting on a piece of brushed stainless (from a PC case oddly enough)
Also really important to wipe down the gun with a good rag, and remove all lint. Lint is bad. |
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Here is a few of my most recent photos. I did a little more work to this 80%.
I'm using the same black back drop as before, just using a different light that is straight above. Its actually my shop light above my lathe and the backdrop is set on top of the lathe. I put a somewhat tight arc on the backdrop to focus the reflection into the center more than around the 1911. I still want to setup a dedicated photo space... These were taken with my phone... Last edited by couch; 06-13-2010 at 8:22 PM.. |
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I suggest if you're taking pictures of a light colored object, you'll want to create a contrast by placing the light object on a dark background. Just my opinion, and it's certainly not the only way to approach the subject.
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As a photographer I have taken countless pictures of this nature. A lightbox is very useful for detailed product photography of all sorts.
Here's a few examples of some product stuff that I've done. Starting of course with my 10mm when it was brand spankin new!
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Will it make a huge difference if I use a photo tent instead of a white sheet? Or it's not worth the purchase? |
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Not bad, but your first two images seem very orange / yellowed out. Try adjusting your white balance a bit, as a humble suggestion. Quote:
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Hello Turbinator
I bought a new Canon Rebel SLR which has 12 mega-pixels, although it takes great pictures, when I have to re size them for forum use, they loose most there sharpness and look out of focus, I resigned to reduce the mega-pixels to 3, but even at three I still have to re size to get them within 150 KB and even that distorts the sharpness and clarity, is there an answer for this, as it stands my little pocket camera takes better pictures in the small size than my Canon SLR, I was looking forward to making better pictures with this new one, if you have a trick please let me know. At full size even at three mega-pixels the picture looks great, the deterioration comes as I down size the picture to stay within the 150KB limit.these shots were great before re sizing.
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What software are you using to resize?
For free, I'd suggest GIMP (terrible name for an open source photoshop clone) for money, there's all kinds of good software out there. The blur-on-resize issue is an issue with the software package AFAIK. I've used GIMP, photoshop, and ACDsee with no issues |
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Thanks BigFatGuy, I called Canon, and you are right, it was the soft wear he had me switch over to the Canon soft wear that came with the camera and walked me through it, what a difference, I feel like I have a new camera now.
Thanks for your help tEN wOLVES
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I'm so pumped right now. I scored a mint Canon 60mm macro lens on eBay for a pretty decent price. It should be here by the end of the coming week. I can't wait to see how much more detail this thing picks up in closeup shots.
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awesome thread. I think its great to see the before than after pics of peoples progress. Personally I don't think taking decent pictures is that difficult, really you just have to understand some basic variables/principles about photography, and from there you'll only get better, but thats not to say if you practice a lot you won't continually progress in technique etc.
I don't have any Handgun pictures yet, but I did build 2 light boxes from instructions on a http://www.diyphotography.net/ mount one of the boxes to a cymbal stand for a drumkit, then found a video camera external lightsource I had laying around to use in it. I don't know if anyone said this, because I just browsed through the thread looked at the pics(some good work in this thread) and I'm also not going to "read all that" right now. Just as in shooting a steady hand is very necessary for capturing clear in focus pictures. Point and shoot cameras are from my experience more prone to shake because of their shape and weight, than say a DSLR. A tripod is you best friend in low light scenarios if you are trying to stay on a low iso, even better is the 2s mirror close option that closes the mirror and waits 2 seconds after you depressed the shutter close button to actually take the picture, in theory reducing shake and possible reverberations you could be causing even though the camera is mounted. Other than that I say just take as many pictures as you can, get to REALLY know your camera and how it performs in different lighting etc. Oh, and please turn that flash off during the day. Thanks! OH yeah, I'm using a Pentax *ist DL (DSLR, the poor mans) and photos were taken with the default 18-55mm lens. Heres some pics of my saiga ak. and my light box or one of them Last edited by FGMACHINE; 01-14-2011 at 11:09 AM.. |
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I guess, for me its just that I only use my flash when I absolutely have too. My cameras default flash, isn't that great... So, yeah... Thanks for the input.I'll probably do some more pics soon. Need a new memory card reader first... Here is my GP-141 with some hand loads, using the lee basher(loader). Last edited by FGMACHINE; 01-18-2011 at 9:10 PM.. |
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couple of my shots
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para_lda.jpg The Sig was shot using a pen light aimed at the brass to color cast the shot. the other was two white fiber boards from the hobby store and an off camera flash. Great tutorial, thanks |
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Your pics are nice and sharp and in focus but they seem to be a little off in white balance.. you may also want to try bumping up your EV a little bit, they seem just a tad dark. Turby |
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n00b here.
I decided to build a light box big enough for rifles, however at this time I only have a point and shoot Canon SX210 si to work with. However I am looking into getting a Canon D60. These are the results of my attempt at photography: Original: After Photoshop Original: After Photoshop
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