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Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:24:05 GMT
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Terry Keller wrote:
I can sympathize with Patrick.  Taking pictures of black models sucks.
Getting sufficient light to capture detail, without being too harsh is
frustrating.   And it seems no amount of gamma tweaking or
contrast/brightness adjustments does any good.

What really bites is if the majority of your Lego collection is black,
as mine is...

I just rationalize it by saying that it adds to the "mystique" of the
model.

For instance:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4654/apache.jpg
This is about the only half-decent picture from an entire roll.  :-(

That's a photo?  Nah, it's a rendering, right?  That's *really* a
photo?  Nice clouds!

Now if this were to swoop in over my house(1), I would be dead from
fright.  And seeing how the Apache was designed to kill people, I'd say
it does its job well.  :-,

Cheers,
- Sproat

1.   Instead of, say, a gray-and-red colored one.

--
Jeremy H. Sproat - jsproat@geocities.com
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/



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  Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
 
(...) Thanks, I got the idea of using a big mirror from those car shows where they put mirrors underneath to show off detail. The clouds were an unexpected bonus. :-) To bad most of the pictures turned out so bad. (...) Well yeah, when was the last (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
 
(...) I can sympathize with Patrick. Taking pictures of black models sucks. Getting sufficient light to capture detail, without being too harsh is frustrating. And it seems no amount of gamma tweaking or contrast/brightness adjustments does any (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)

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