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Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
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Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:04:46 GMT
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:24:05 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> What really bites is if the majority of your Lego collection is black,
> as mine is...
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> I just rationalize it by saying that it adds to the "mystique" of the
> model.
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> > For instance:
> > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4654/apache.jpg
> > This is about the only half-decent picture from an entire roll. :-(
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> That's a photo? Nah, it's a rendering, right? That's *really* a
> photo? Nice clouds!
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.
> 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. :-,
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> Cheers,
> - Sproat
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> 1. Instead of, say, a gray-and-red colored one.
Well yeah, when was the last time you heard paranoid extremists muttering about
being harassed by the governments secret gray-and-red helicopters?
-- Terry K --
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 | | Terry's Apache and black pieces (was Re: New Space Ship..)
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| (...) you know, it's funny how that works out. when i disassembled the majority of my sets a few years ago and sorted the pieces into colors, the black pieces were the most abundant. and of the smaller plates and bricks, the black pieces had the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
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| (...) 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. (...) That's a photo? Nah, it's a rendering, right? That's *really* a photo? Nice (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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