My latest knife

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Here's one I completed today. It's a 1095 drop point hunter, 8.75" OAL, 4.25" blade. Brass pins and 3/32" file worked brass liners. Shallow hollowground (24" wheel:D) black buffalo horn handles from Tracey Mickley. dont know if I'll use it again though. It made my whole shop smell like the south end of a north bound buffalo. and not just faintly either. like 2 feet away and it just took a #2 in front of me strong smell. It also will show every flaw you made in forming it, when you snap a picture of it. You cant see 99% of the flaws you see in the pics when you hold it in your hand!

And so on to the dilema... As you can see these pics suck! and the really bad thing is these are the best I've took of knives! I can take an outdoor pic of anything except knives! what am I doing wrong? I'm using a Sony 5.1 megapixel Cybershot... HELP ME PLEASE! :eek:


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Looks like you have the light reflecting right off of the knife into your lens. You might try moving the light. Try indirect light or dispersed. Also your background is so dark that it is hard to see the handle.

-Zech
 
Definitely try some sort of lightbox. I made mine out of glued and stapled together tomato stakes and covered it with white shopping bags.took about 1/2 hour to make.

With the lightbox you probably won't or shouldn't use flash, as the reflections defeat the purpose of the lightbox. without a box, try the various flash settings of your camera; I can get completely different pictures from changing the flash setting of my camera - from a big starburst on the blade to a really decent solid blade pic in the same camera position.

Nice work on the knife; looks like the grind went a bit high though. I had considered using buffalo horn but because of your description, I don't know now. :)
 
Since you can't bounce the flash easily with that camera (though you could by holding a white index card in front of the flash at an angle toward the ceiling to force the flash to bounce off the ceiling or wall).

Try a simple shop light with a 5000K bulb. Or simply take them outside in the early morning light , or around sunset.
 
whoa thanks guys! I have built a light box, out of plywood but I was at my parents house for Sunday dinner last night when I finished it and wanted to take a pic of it. The Light box covered in white garbage bags sounds like it would diffuse the ambiamt light fairly well! I'll try that. Thanks again!

Jason
 
Dont us a flash and play with the camera settings. Mine works best on the macro mode I seem to get a better pic I think because the light meter is picking up more of the knife and less of the background.

I also set the sharpness and color saturation to high, this really helps. You can also set the light source to match your light source. any diffusion will help but you can take it to the shade and get a good pic without a light box.

You may want to experiment with different backgrounds as well, that is pretty dark and may match the handle too much.

I use small pieces of clay to set the blade a a small angel so I dont see myself in the image on the blade. For detail like the spine divide the knife into two pics you can get closer and show more of your detail work.

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Another thing to be aware of , the clothing you wear can reflect color casts on your object , a nice neutral gray shirt works better than a yellow or red shirt. :)
 
Cant Thank You Guys Enough! I made a decent light box, and it rocks! see below...

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Thanks Again Guys!
 
That looks great! looks like a completely different knife now... I really like the Brass liner, seems to have a little Recurve in its DNA! Very Shiny (Nice finish on the Horn)
 
RyanW said:
That looks great! looks like a completely different knife now... I really like the Brass liner, seems to have a little Recurve in its DNA! Very Shiny (Nice finish on the Horn)
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It does have some recurve to it, My only complaint is I did get the grind a lil high.

Jason
 
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