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jdm61

jdm61

itinerant metal pounder
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I discovered this weekend that there is not subsitute for professional photography. Terrill Hoffman snapped a pic of two of my knives and I felt like i was the guy at the Glamour shots kiosk telling the photographer to "make my wife look purty":D He did a bang up job and it was money well spent as I now have the first pic for my soon to be created web site. UNFORTUNATELY, I cannot post it here because the jpg file is 216 Kb and the only thing as abysmal as my photography skills are my computer skills. Can anyone help?:eek:
 
Most photo editing programs will aloow you to resize your image very easily. You can usually find this feature somewhere in one of the drop down menus at the top of the page. If you resize the image to something in the size of 600 x 400 pixels, and then save it under a new name so as to maintain your original image, then you should still have a pic of respectable size that could be posted here.

On the other hand, if you wanted to send it to me, I could resize for you, send it back, and then you could post it yourself, unless posting is also an issue.
 
Joe (Canine forge) offered to give me a hand. I am anxious to see how it turns out. The big Tif file is almost too detailed...lol.
 
Here you go, Joe. Great looking knives!!

JoeMandtknives.jpg
 
Thanks, guys. It is mind boggling what someone who truly knows what they are doing with a pro grade digital camera setup and photo software can do in an amazingly short period of time. I gave Terrill the knives after 4:30 on Friday and I had prints and a disk in hand and a huge grin on my face before the show closed at 5.:thumbup::D I still have a LOT of work to do before my first show in February, but it is nice to actually be able to see progress.
 
Hey Joe, For as short a period of time that you have been making you are showing huge amounts of progress. The pro photo's are a plus but I do miss the knife in front of the face photo's. :D
 
Raymond Richard said:
Hey Joe, For as short a period of time that you have been making you are showing huge amounts of progress. The pro photo's are a plus but I do miss the knife in front of the face photo's. :D
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Yes.......they do make tend to make the knives look MUCH better in comparison to the gruesome background of me sitting in front of my puter in my skivvies at 2 AM:D
 
WoodWorkGhost said:
Hi Joe,

Nice knives.

WWG
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Thanks. Les. Hopefully I will continue to progress so that I may have something meaningful to talk about with some of you guys in Atlanta in June of '09 or thereabouts:D My experience this weekend at the Cambridge show where I had this pic taken was another very postitive one. This will hopefully be the start of a new phase in my very short kniemaking "career". That little hunter is kind of special in that it will, in all likelihood, be the last straight carbon knife I make using the batch of 1075 "practice" steel that I bought from Admiral what seems like a very long time ago. I just aquired a big batch of Mace and Aldo's 1084 and I am almost to the point where I feel comfortable using better quality stuff exclusively.......which is another way of saying that I am slowly approaching the point where FEWER than 50% of my projects end up in the trash. Now I can use the remaining 1075 to screw up while trying to learn to make damascus sometime on the near future...lol.
 
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