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Re: Object lesson in bad photography
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:17:48 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper writes:
> 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 a new good picture of Zero Three with exactly the same
> lighting:
> http://members.aol.com/Infradread/Lego/MS/E0.JPG
> compared to the murky badness of:
> http://members.aol.com/Infradread/Lego/MS/MS04.JPG
I'm no photography, but looking at those images, I notice that Zero Three
has a nice contrast to its background. In MS04, the background is primarily
black with some red (the scaffolding), the same colors as the mecha. This
could definitely contribute to the feeling that MS04 is 'murky badness'.
Steve
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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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