EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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Still rocking this Ritter RSK. Trying out the MXG clip on it for a bit to see if I like it more than the stock clip.
 
Shorttime said:
That hour before sunset is a thing in the film industry, it's called the "golden hour". I guess it's for basically the same reasons. When the sun is straight overhead, you get amazing color rendering, but you also get a lot of glare, and really sharp, high-contrast shadows. With the sun closer to the horizon, colors get "warmed up", with more reds and yellows in them, and shadows kind of trail off, like the light when you go into a cave.

One thing that's worked for me is to be near a window on one side, and an incandescent bulb on the other side, with my knife as close as possible to right in the middle. Or, I'll have the knife between me and the light bulb, then the window off to my right or left.

Photographing knives is harder because you can get ugly glare off the blade, and it pretty much ruins the photo. I'll move a knife as many as four times while looking at my camera, to find an angle I'm happy with.
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That's cool about the golden hour! I've never heard of that before. I've noticed that I can get some really cool pictures during that time. However, like you said, they usually don't get the real loud color differences like in a full sun situation that look very good also.

That's interesting, I'll have to try the knife between a window and incandescent bulb! That should help during the winter because it gets very wet and gloomy during the 8 months outside of summer here in the Pacific Northwest. The "photo gallery" on my phone is FILLED with knife pictures haha. For every pic that I post on here, I might have taken 5, 10, or even 20 other pics of the same thing that just didn't quite look right to me. 🍻
 
LimpCroissant said:
That's cool about the golden hour! I've never heard of that before. I've noticed that I can get some really cool pictures during that time. However, like you said, they usually don't get the real loud color differences like in a full sun situation that look very good also.

That's interesting, I'll have to try the knife between a window and incandescent bulb! That should help during the winter because it gets very wet and gloomy during the 8 months outside of summer here in the Pacific Northwest. The "photo gallery" on my phone is FILLED with knife pictures haha. For every pic that I post on here, I might have taken 5, 10, or even 20 other pics of the same thing that just didn't quite look right to me. 🍻
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Early morning is also an opportunity for good color saturation but not as good as late afternoon … as Shorttime Shorttime said, high noon will render accurate colors, but due to the angle of incidence it will “flatten” their depth.
Great advice about using a natural light source as the main light, with a fill on the shadow side … another trick for the fill side is a reflective card (it can even be white or black - not necessarily “shiny”). You can experiment with different colors and surfaces to tune subject ‘cast’ …
 
Ed G said:
Early morning is also an opportunity for good color saturation but not as good as late afternoon … as Shorttime Shorttime said, high noon will render accurate colors, but due to the angle of incidence it will “flatten” their depth.
Great advice about using a natural light source as the main light, with a fill on the shadow side … another trick for the fill side is a reflective card (it can even be white or black - not necessarily “shiny”). You can experiment with different colors and surfaces to tune subject ‘cast’ …
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Sweet alright, thanks for the additional info! That's a good idea on putting a reflective surface on the shadow side. I think I've got a piece of white polished looking vinyl or some such material outside that might work good for that. Right on, hopefully my knife pictures will start looking better and better! 🍻
 
So I spent the last 2 days at home completing 15 hrs of online continuing education. Being more interested in getting the hours and less so on the content, I took the opportunity to sharpen and do some maintenance on several knives. Took this Hinderer in on a trade around the first of the year but wasn't completely happy with the action and getting sidetracked, put it way for the time. Decided to take her apart to clean and grease it before swapping out scales. Action is now awesome, very smooth. Easily sharpened up to a great, very sharp edge.
I'll definitely be carrying it today.

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ac3boyz said:
So I spent the last 2 days at home completing 15 hrs of online continuing education. Being more interested in getting the hours and less so on the content, I took the opportunity to sharpen and do some maintenance on several knives. Took this Hinderer in on a trade around the first of the year but wasn't completely happy with the action and getting sidetracked, put it way for the time. Decided to take her apart to clean and grease it before swapping out scales. Action is now awesome, very smooth. Easily sharpened up to a great, very sharp edge.
I'll definitely be carrying it today.

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Very nice man ! I was fortunate and mine from the latest DLT drop was a sweetie out of the box. But when there not which is rare from my experience it doesn’t take much and there stellar with just some Maintence and or break in 👍🏻👊🏻
 
Approach Amazon box with knife held in reverse grip, edge in. Whisper, "Shh, be still now. It will all be over soon." 🥷

In all seriousness, though, I've owned one RGEI folder before, the Kizer Inversion, and the Elvia blows it out of the water. Unlike the Inversion, which was only comfortable for me RGEI, the Elvia is genuinely comfortable in, and feels like it would be useful in, saber, Filipino, pinch, and edge-in saber grips. (That last one makes the design's fruit-peeling origins really clear.)

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