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Re: Photography Techniques...
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Tue, 6 Nov 2001 00:27:40 GMT
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In lugnet.publish.photography, Kyle Keppler writes:
> Woot, I got two nods! :-)
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> 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.
Hey Kyle! thanks for the lengthly and very helpful response. :-)
I've got a Kodak Dc 265, I think it's pretty good, :-)
> 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.
Ok i'll, try that next time I take some pics, thanks...
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
Wow! Thankyou so much! I'll try experimenting with this, hopefully I can get
some results!
> Hopefully this made sense and is of help, and feel free to ask more questions.
Definitely of help, now Kyle, after all that, do you REALLY think I'd need
any more info? ;-)
Seriously, thanks so much for your time, this of BIG help, :-)
C'ya!
-Geordan-
> --Kyle
> http://hvl.cjb.net
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