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Re: Photography Techniques...
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Woot, I got two nods! :-)
Well the first and foremost thing is you need a decent camera, which it looks
like you do from the pics. I have a Sony Cybershot S-30, which is by no
means top of the line, but it gets the job done.
As far as lighting, I open the blinds, turn as many lights as possible on and
then point a small lamp and a florescent lamp on the subject. That's all I
did for the 2 photo's you mentioned, but for this one:(which I think is even
better) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=65637 I found the
whiteness balance setting and changed it from auto to indoor. I think I
also increased the exposure to +1. Mostly I just messed around and found the
best settings. And for most photos you will want to turn on macro mode so it
focuses correctly up close.
As far as inserting the background, there are basically 3 ways I know to do
it, and they all involve PhotoShop 5-6(It might working in Paint Shop Pro or
other stuff too though). One is to use the magic wand tool and slowly select
out the background. But this often leaves artifacts around the border.
Second is the best looking but most time consuming method. It involves using
the polygonal lasso tool to slowly create a path/selection around the model.
Once you are done selecting you can go to select>feather and feather it by
around .5 to 2 pixels to make the border nice and smooooth like. This is the
method I used in the Myase pic.
The last method is probably the easiest, but it's not perfect... Open the
image in PhotoShop, then go to Image>extract (I think this is only in PS 5.5+
though..). Then you trace around the image using the highlighter tool, once
you finish that, you the fill tool to fill the area you want to keep. Then
PS will extract the background and replace it with transparency. Some times
you will have to touch up here or there to fix it up. I used this method for
this pic: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=81480 (Plug for a
comic to be(maybe:-P)) It's not perfect but it's easy!
Hopefully this made sense and is of help, and feel free to ask more questions.
--Kyle
http://hvl.cjb.net
In lugnet.publish.photography, Geordan Hankinson writes:
> He'y'all,
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> Two parts to this post, feel free to respond to either or both...
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> part I
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> I'm having trouble with takin pictures,
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> Some times they turn out too dark, sometimes they turn out kind of like they
> were under candle light, :-)
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=75849
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=72944
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> any ideas on lighting? I'm looking for results like this...
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=57230
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=62765
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=80345
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=62758
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=62772
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> you get the idea... any thoughts on the lighting?
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> part II
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> This is why this is relevant to space and mecha...sort of...
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> For the next chapter in my story, the scenes are going to be battle scenes,
> so it goes beyond just taking pictures of minifigs, I need to be able to
> take the outline of the mecha, and paste it onto a background, like this...
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=67900
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> I have absolutely no idea how though, I figured people in space are fairly
> familiar with this technique, as are some of the mecha people, so any ideas?
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> I've tried tinkering with this lot's, but could never figure it out...
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> Thanks everyone! =^)
>
> -Geordan-
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| (...) Hey Kyle! thanks for the lengthly and very helpful response. :-) I've got a Kodak Dc 265, I think it's pretty good, :-) (...) Ok i'll, try that next time I take some pics, thanks... (...) Wow! Thankyou so much! I'll try experimenting with (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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