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Terry's Apache and black pieces (was Re: New Space Ship..)
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Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:25:25 GMT
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--portions of previous discussion snipped--
Terry Keller writes:
> > > 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...
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 majority of the good and usable specialty pieces (hinges, plates and
clips, etc.).
> > 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. :-(
i had seen this on your page before, but that photo really shows what a dang
cool model you've created, terry. GREAT STUFF!
(by the way, i totally empathize with you on taking a whole roll of pics and
only getting a couple of 'usables'.)
..jg
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