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Object lesson in bad photography
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:23:20 GMT
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http://members.aol.com/Infradread/Lego/MS/MS04.JPG
This gundam has been gathering dust as I try to figure out
how to photograph it and update my website. It may be impossible.
Notice how the black detail is completely lost
and the red hue isn't consistent across the image
(perhaps because of the sharp contrast with black).
My camera just can't capture it.
Also the more illumination you add the more plasticy
black lego looks, and with less illumination the
detail is invisible. The only light that works is
bright ambient (sunlight). Gray is so much easier to shoot.
No more black mecha for me.
"K"
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Message has 7 Replies:
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| (...) Wow. That's a very nice gundam! It's meaty--and I love the shield. :) But you *can* photograph it--the big problem is the source of light. Flashes are never kind with black--it shows off the studs too well. I'd suggest popping the $10 to get (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) I have taken pictures of black models in poor lighting conditions, and still had pictures with plenty of detail: (URL) the red still looks fine! A little more color adjustment would probably improve it even more. Just don't mix fluorescent and (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) ......... ......... ........main.frame.c...n......... ....starting os......... .......uploading.new...G......... .....WARNING!...WARN...!......... ....UNKNOWN.UNKNOWN....D......... .......UNIT.04........ (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| I dunno...the black looks good to me...real good. More importantly what scares me is that you have a fully done Gundam sitting around "gathering dust". What's up with that? You got more? :-) Later, Bryce (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| The funny thing is I'm not using a flash and I'm using a "painter's light" essentially halogen with a white diffuser to simulate sunlight, it just doesn't work with black lego in this case (perhaps vertical plates are more shiny than bricks). Here's (...) (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| OMIGOD that is just so awseome. Wow! Yiesh!!!!! Besides being completely blown away, I too have trouble photographing the all Black creations I have. But then again I am just learning to work with photographs in this area. Taking Pix of the Big Mech (...) (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | Re: Object lesson in bad photography
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| (...) Use more light sources, all the same "temperature" (don't mix halogen, flourescent and incadescent), from different angles, and diffuse it. You can diffuse the light using a diffuser (expensive if you aren't into photography as a hobby), or (...) (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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