Taking Photos

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

I have two knives ready and am taking some pics so I can put them up for sale. Check out my awesome setup!

 

[fast14riot]

Cool little set-up. What color bulbs are you using? I have had some good results with the "daylight" bulbs and tissue taped over the shade. Your photos are looking good, the flat and cold coloring in your light seems to go well with your style of knives.


-Xander

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Cool little set-up. What color bulbs are you using? I have had some good results with the "daylight" bulbs and tissue taped over the shade. Your photos are looking good, the flat and cold coloring in your light seems to go well with your style of knives.


-Xander

Thanks Xander, they are the daylight bulbs. I think they are 6500 K, I'll have to double check. I have tried the tissue but may need more wattage. I have a third light and an inexpensive light box but rarely use them.

I'm pretty in to photography and should post some of my scenic work, we have some great landscapes here to work with. The close-ups are way tougher though and I feel I am just getting a feel for them. Thanks for the compliments on my photos!

 

[fast14riot]

Thanks Xander, they are the daylight bulbs. I think they are 6500 K, I'll have to double check. I have tried the tissue but may need more wattage. I have a third light and an inexpensive light box but rarely use them.

I'm pretty in to photography and should post some of my scenic work, we have some great landscapes here to work with. The close-ups are way tougher though and I feel I am just getting a feel for them. Thanks for the compliments on my photos!

For the tissue I found that the cheap 2 ply could be separated easily and I would take and move the single ply out further from the bulb to lessen the bright spot. What is your camera setup?

Landscapes is something I never got good at. I guess most my landscape vistas have always been water beyond the horizon, so I have never really had much opportunity for great shots. The air quality at sea level (and below sometimes here) also wreak havoc on distance shots. Your altitude makes for nice clear air with little distortion. Macro photography has been one of my favorites for a long time! I just love getting down and dirty with something tiny to get the shot that defies scale. I wish I could have had more time to play around with shooting that knife you have by me, the colors in it lend themselves to natural light photography so well! I found that great practice for close ups was picking certain features on my sons face and trying to get the shot before he moved. I didn't care what was in frame as long as the image could be deciphered as what it was. Some really great shots came from that. Plus, who has ever thought they had enough photos of their child!


-Xander

 

[nozyk]

Are you using white corian cutting boards here or some other material? I have a light box set up and have not achieved any decent results yet.Nice knives btw.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

For the tissue I found that the cheap 2 ply could be separated easily and I would take and move the single ply out further from the bulb to lessen the bright spot. What is your camera setup?

Landscapes is something I never got good at. I guess most my landscape vistas have always been water beyond the horizon, so I have never really had much opportunity for great shots. The air quality at sea level (and below sometimes here) also wreak havoc on distance shots. Your altitude makes for nice clear air with little distortion. Macro photography has been one of my favorites for a long time! I just love getting down and dirty with something tiny to get the shot that defies scale. I wish I could have had more time to play around with shooting that knife you have by me, the colors in it lend themselves to natural light photography so well! I found that great practice for close ups was picking certain features on my sons face and trying to get the shot before he moved. I didn't care what was in frame as long as the image could be deciphered as what it was. Some really great shots came from that. Plus, who has ever thought they had enough photos of their child!


-Xander

I'll have to try that with the single ply, cool. My setup is just a Kodak Z885, it is a low end point and shoot camera but I have good luck with it. It is funny I have had people offer to buy my landscapes and they were done with a really cheap Olympus. I'd really like to get a good camera. I usually take 5-50 photos of everything though, lol one has to be good right! When I lived on a boat in the EC I really got into photography, my father in-law was a professional photographer in Los Angeles for the film industry... they ran a film lab. They had a great camera and it was a lot of fun. If you are ever in Grenada most of the postcards you can buy there were taken with that camera, my friend took them!

Are you using white corian cutting boards here or some other material? I have a light box set up and have not achieved any decent results yet.Nice knives btw.

Lol yes they are white plastic cutting boards, not corian just the cheap ones. I was happy to upgrade a few weeks ago to the big cutting board!

I have a lightbox I just bought that I need to experiment with more. My goal was to have it permanently set up in the shop but until I get a sink (lol I'm always dirty) that probably won't work. I need to bring it back up here and use it!

I have photographed a couple hundred knives in the last year and feel I am just getting a grasp of it. I thought I needed a better camera but it seems the lighting is 98% of the work.