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The organizing committee is attempting to finalize the BricksWest schedule by the end of next week. This is the absolute last chance for you to step forward and volunteer to run a session or two in Carlsbad. To date, we are a bit heavy on trains, (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.storage, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build.mecha) !
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| | Re: Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
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(...) Thanks, Gil! It's my pleasure to share this with everyone and help get the creative juices flowing and gather input to improve my techniques. I'll try to keep the info coming. I know I'd like to go over how to make a canyonesque planet but I (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
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(...) One of the controls you can also use is the sphereize filter in the Distort menu. That will allow you to create or drop in a scan of a continent and stuff. From there you define a circular area (Shift circle to get a perfect circle)and then (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Clouds are tricky. I haven’t figured out the best way to render them yet, but take a look at this pic: (URL) that type of “cracked and craggy” planet is a lesson by itself—I’ll get to that in another post. Anyway, for those clouds, what I did was: (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) etc. In the past, to make those sorts of things, Ive used the 'render clouds', then distorted the image in various ways. Of course that always entails ugly amounts of work since the cloud rendering always has that same sparse fractal dimension (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Actually my "more accurate rendering" was done with pencil and paper. I suppose I could scan it. As for astronomical accuracy, I just thought somewhere in the back of my mind that the lit spot on the planet was somehow different from the way (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Actually Dan, I've been taking the Jassim Starfield (and Galaxy) tutorial and have been more than pleased with the resulting galactic backdrops. It's saved me scouring the 'Net and stealing other people's images. Thanks kindly, Teach! Cheers, -G (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Thank you for your suggestions. I was trying to keep this recipe as basic as possible--sort of an intro for those who haven't tried this. Thus, that particular picture was not an exercise in astronomical accuracy but more for simply using the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
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In lugnet.space, Daniel Jassim writes: ... (...) . . . (...) looks wrong. The lit spot is too small, unless the star is tiny, and practically on top of the planet. Perhaps you need to drag the gradient circle just a bit further if you start at the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
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Greetings! Here's a simple starfield recipe for Photoshop: - Make a new document, 720 X 480 pixels, 300 dpi, Mode: Grayscale - Go to your Tool Palette and grab your Paint Bucket tool and fill the canvas with black - Go to Filter, then Texture, then (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: photoing legos
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(...) I've had some success with using very dark backgrounds, and letting the camera make adjustments. I have a picture of three images of the same largely black thing, using the same lighting, at (URL) with a off-white background, a navy blue (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: Photographer etiquette questionnaire/survey
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From the tone of Todd's replies, it sounds like he knows how to photograph Lego bricks. This is good, I need to talk to you at BrickFest, Todd. My attemtps to document my creations photographically with the inevitable digital camera have been (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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My opinions have largely been stated already, but... (...) Yes. (...) No. (...) Fine. (...) Are you looking at discomfort when flashed in my eyes or damage to the brick due to repeat strobe exposure? I hate being "flashed" unexpectedly. And I doubt (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Todd, As you can see from my Brickshelf directory from last years' Brickfest ( (URL) ) I took alot of pictures at the event. I tried to get every model, but I'm sure that I missed some. I also tried to take pictures of as many of the attendees and (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Hmm, this leads to an idea: MOC Studio. Set up a designated area where people with quality photographic equipment like you can take pictures of people's models. The model owner would have to cooperate by moving it to your location. Then you (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Last year, there were plenty of times when the display rooms were quiet, and an involved photo-session would be unlikely to disturb anyone. If you want to get really detailed shots of someone's creation, it might be a good idea to make (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Ya, flashes aren't really needed much anymore with modern digital cameras... but using a flash can still make a difference -- especially with a CCD-based digital camera. CMOS imaging chips don't suffer from the same "snowy pixel" effects that (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Not specifically BF, but generally.... (...) yes,yes (...) yes,depends (see below),no (...) generally fine, long as its not derogatory or anything. (...) no (...) Depends on the show. Generally I'd prefer this not to be done at a show. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Yes. Yes. If I were going to Brickfest (and I'm not, sniff), I would be bringing things for public display. (...) Yes. No. No. On this last, I have no idea why someone is taking pictures--maybe they're just into trains and so they don't care (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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