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I often like light backgroung better but you are definately pulling me to the dark side with these. Great work.
Can I ask if all the backgrounds are digital? I mean knives added afterward.
 
Nice images! The knives are well-served by these photos, but the images are a bit 'soft' IMHO. My monitor (and most newer monitors) will resolve more detail on-screen than is present in the net versions of these images. (Example: http://www.fototime.com/0A951C23C28CF35/orig.jpg comparable to your first image above) It's an academic point and not meant to take away from all the positive feedback above. I too really like your images above. Thanks for posting them.
 
Patrice Lemée;11681681 said:
I often like light backgroung better but you are definately pulling me to the dark side with these. Great work.
Can I ask if all the backgrounds are digital? I mean knives added afterward.
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Patrice - All are shot on their backgrounds with the exception of the Time Machine, which was shot separately. To add effect, I purposely have the background (shadows) going the wrong way.
 
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Since one of the two knife picture is added afterward I wondered if you might do that for both. Especially for ease of lighting on a more neutral background.
Thanks for the explanation.
 
prairiedigital said:
Patrice - All are shot on their backgrounds with the exception of the Time Machine, which was shot separately. To add effect, I purposely have the background (shadows) going the wrong way.
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There is a strange contradiction in your description... If shot together, shadows cannot go different ways...
If shot separately and done deliberately, the end result, which is supposed to be realistic, becomes
a little confusing and looks like a mistake made when putting the final picture together*....

* even though very very few will actually notice the mistake....

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)
 
The Time machine knife was the only one of the attached group of photos not shot on a background. It was outlined and composited onto the background. The upside down placement of the background
was a subtle way of adding to the meaning to the knife.
 
I am sorry, the only technique I know of to add another view of the knife was to extract it from a shot background and composite it as you say beside the "real" one. Obviously you combine them some other way and I apologize for assuming you did it my way. (Which is probably the most amateur way to do it :o). It does peak my curiosity though and I will research this further.
Thanks again for sharing your work.
 
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