Need opinion on pic quality

[indian george]

I been screwing around with camera settings and shadow box lighting all day.
What do you Dudes think of this pic of the Goat knife?????

 

[mete]

I never saw a goat use a knife ! That photo is fine , you show the damascus well and the texture of the horn. I would rather see a colored back ground though.

 

[paintfool]

I can see the pattern in the blade only near the tip, on my screen the knife itself looks a little dark while the back ground is very bright.
I'm sure everyone will have their display settings different, and mine must be set a little too dark.
Steve

 

[indian george]

Thanks guys!!!
Mete what color background would you suggest????
PS: It reads goat knife not goat's knife. HEHEHE!!!!

 

[Raymond Richard]

It almost looks to bright to me. The bottom side of the handle looks washed out to me. I think a darker background would also be better.

 

[Jay Mulcahy]

Hi there I.G., after seeing the knife first hand, I think its a little too washed out. The handle has a "richer" look in person, darker tones and more character. Hope this helps.

 

[Gossman Knives]

Looks pretty good IG. Alot better then mine. I agree with mete, the background could be darker. Use a color that won't blend with the knife parts.
Scott

 

[HOGCAT]

I touched it up a bit for ya George.

 

[indian george]

Thanks Hogcat and Guys. I am going blind play'g with this.

 

[B . Buxton]

IG what kind of camera do you have, brand and make. I bought this new canon powershot A95 a month or so ago, if its anything like it maybe we can compare notes.

Bill

 

[mete]

To get into color stuff - the best color to compliment wood [varius browns] is green .Second best would be blue. A medium to light tone.

 

[indian george]

Thanks Mete
Bill: I have a Olympus Camedia C-700 ultra zoom it has 10X optical zoom.
And one of my dogs ate the damn lense cover.

 

[indian george]

How about this pic????

 

[paintfool]

I can see the whole blade in that picture, it's a lot better, you should try it with a light green background of some kind, like stated above, even an old t-shirt would work.
That would set the whole thing off like crazy and bring that handle jumping out.

what are you using for a light box? maybe add one more light on the left side and see what happens.

once again, just my 2 cents...
Steve

 

[indian george]

Thanks Steve

 

[Raymond Richard]

IG, I think your on the right track. It looks alot better to me........

 

[indian george]

IG, I think your on the right track. It looks alot better to me........

Thanks Bubba Did you get a chance to talk to Wayne G. yet?????

 

[Raymond Richard]

IG, I just got some emails from him this morning. I had forgot to ask him so I'll do that now...

 

[Ed Caffrey]

Everyone has spoken about the background so I won't go anymore on that...... a trick that I use is to support the knife with a glob of modeling clay. This way you can give the knife the appearance of floating over the background, and you can position the knife so that the light doesn't reflect in some areas and make shadows in others. You can use a small glob that will be hidden by the knife, yet will allow you to position the knife at various angles.

 

[indian george]

Thanks Ed.