Some pistol porn

[XDRoX]

Still experimenting with the camera. Here are some of my latest pics. There is still room to improve, but these ones came out pretty nice.
Feel free to add your pics to the thread also.

[Black Majik]

Very nice

[XDRoX]

Very nice

Thanks Majik.

[professionalcoyotehunter]

Cool.

[Ultimate]

Awesome!!

I must admit the revolver looks the best.

[XDRoX]

Cool.

Thanks.

Awesome!!

I must admit the revolver looks the best.

That's what I thought as well. I'm going to have to photograph more revolvers, they do turn out nice.

[the_donald_]

yeah man these are pretty good, keep it up.

[socalshooting]

Excellent pics. The semi-reflective surface is a nice touch. You should reduce contrast a little bit and bring up the foreground lighting. Or lighten up the black because it's hiding a lot of detail. The P22 is my favorite. Shows good lighting and the engraving is top notch.

Instead of watermarking, you should always remove exif data instead (how is the E-420 working for you?). Not only does it save about 15KB of data on your pics, it prevents other people from claiming that the pics are theirs because exif data was written specificly on your camera. You should always keep the original pic with that data on it. Besides, it's so easy for anyone to take your watermark off:

[XDRoX]

Wow that's a lot of info. Thanks for the tips. I am having a lot of trouble with the black levels still.

I really didn't put my name on them to keep people from stealing them, but just because I thought it looked cool

Is 420 the type of camera I have? All I know is it's an Olympus It's my wife's.

The coloring did come out awesome on the P22. I'm going to use that one as a model for future shots.

Thanks again for the tips.

[socalshooting]

I had a couple of my pictures jacked on ebay a couple of years back and I'd hate it to happen to any other gun/photography enthusiast. The shameless idiot even went so far as to steal my links directly (I was self-hosting) so I replaced it with some farm animal pictures in some suggestive naughty poses. Some people in this world just won't hesitate to steal your work instead of doing it themselves. It's the easy way out, unfortunately.

From the exif data, you have an Olympus model E-420.

It's better to take the picture in the right lighting the first time before trying to adjust it later because the more adjusting, the more you reduce the quality of the picture. For studio shots, I usually shoot in manual on a tripod and wired remote. You can also use the timer if you don't have a remote. Choose the aperture first and then match with shutter speed until the light gauge bar is centered. Touching up your photos aren't too big of a deal. For example, the sig: I reduced the contrast a little bit and slightly cranked the black level. Added a little bit of sharpening too. And ALWAYS crop out unwanted white space.

[Oldnoob]

Very nice. What size is your light tent?

[XDRoX]

Very nice. What size is your light tent?

No tent. I'm just setting the guns on a white laminated poster in front of the window.

[xxsleepyxx]

Worst pics I've ever seen.

[xxsleepyxx]

-jk

[Turbinator]

-jk

Turby