Chris Eppig Ladies EDC Knife

[Bladewolf]

6" 440C, Plexiglass scales, Nichol pins, Hand rubbed to 1500 Grit.

Chris has already posted a pic of this knife on the forums, but now it's mine, uh, our's, (okay, okay...) her's. Chris had originally made this for his sister, and IMO, gave it great, graceful lines. I thought it would make the perfect first custom for the little woman, and so it has. Chris re-sheathed it at my request, and now I think it makes a great photographic subject as well.

As in the past, I ask all who view to please feel free to critique the photo, I'm working on the photgraphy and welcome the input.

 

[MadDaddy]

Cool little knife...the scales are a nice touch.

Ok, as far as the pic goes, keep the focus on the subjest of the pic. IMO the scorpion thing is totally distracting. The wood is good, keep that and try to figure out a way to make the wood work with the subject so that it makes you focus on the knife first and then your eye will move to the background second and since you have some good texture with the piece of wood, keep the back drop plain and simple.

 

[Bladewolf]

Cool little knife...the scales are a nice touch.

Ok, as far as the pic goes, keep the focus on the subjest of the pic. IMO the scorpion thing is totally distracting. The wood is good, keep that and try to figure out a way to make the wood work with the subject so that it makes you focus on the knife first and then your eye will move to the background second and since you have some good texture with the piece of wood, keep the back drop plain and simple.

Cool, thanks MadDaddy. I actually only put the scorpian in after being frustrated by the knife continually looking out of focus/blurry. When you see the detail on the scorpian, you at least see the shot's fairly clear, without it, the knife kept looking blurry. I don't know why. I take your point about taking the focus off the primary subject though.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

Increasing the contrast a little helps alot, and some color correction as well. I did a quicky job of both on the pic (took 5 seconds) the colors probably arent accurate, but with practice you can get them pretty accurate by comparing the results to the actual knife.

Nice little knife, BTW.

 

[Bladewolf]

Thanks, that's the kind of input I'm looking for, especially from a master of tactical photochopping, (you're work in other forums is admired).

 

[Hesparus]

I thought the original picture was pretty flattering but the increased contrast does help a lot. The scorpion is a little wierd but otherwise I really like the overall composition. If you still want something else in the photo, I recomend the head of a wading bird (if you can get your hands on one). I did not market it as such, but the name I was throwing around for this knife was "Grus" (pr. grOOS, "the crane") for its graceful curves and the blade's resemblence of a crane's beak.
Keep it up.

- Chris

 

[Bladewolf]

Based on your input (especially your's Chris), I've tried another tact in photographing this knife. I've discovered part of the problem is that when next working with a knife this small, I'm going to have to build a lightbox. Anyway, here's my last attempt at my 'put it on the table and shoot it' method. Lemme know if you think this one's better.

Chris, if you do this one with black pearl scales, you're going to have to fight off the thieves (good thing I know you're qualified )