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Re: Photography Techniques...
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Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:28:31 GMT
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In lugnet.publish.photography, Ace Kim writes:
> my two studs:
> 
> outside natural sunlight is the best. don't underestimate cloudy/overcast
> days though. overcast days are ideal conditions for photographing artwork
> for slides so it my work for lego models (i don't see why not). give them
> both a try and see what kind of results you get. although living in
> vancouver you may not have that many opportunities for bright sunny days. ;)
> 
> if you're like me, you don't get many chances to shoot during daylight hours
> period. i do most of my photographing at night inside my studio. i use a
> halogen desk lamp to illuminate the model and took several test shots. your
> camera may have an inherent white point balancing setting that you can
> adjust. i tried out all the options and finally found one that made a white
> sheet of paper look white. after that i took some more pics of my model and
> ran it through photoshop. what i find works wonders is adjusting the
> hue/saturation/lightness (it's under image>adjust>hue/saturation). it made
> the reds look red and brought the blues much closer to lego brick blue and
> so on. as for lassoing specific areas, i really don't think something like
> that is necessary unless you want to paint in wear and tear, etc.
> 
> Thanks for th tips Ace! I'll definitely experiment with this,

Thanks again,

-Geordan-

> 
> In lugnet.publish.photography, Geordan Hankinson writes:
> > He'y'all,
> > 
> > Two parts to this post, feel free to respond to either or both...
> > 
> > part I
> > 
> > I'm having trouble with takin pictures,
> > 
> > Some times they turn out too dark, sometimes they turn out kind of like they
> > were under candle light, :-)
> > 
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=75849
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=72944
> > 
> > any ideas on lighting? I'm looking for results like this...
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > you get the idea... any thoughts on the lighting?
> > 
> > part II
> > 
> > This is why this is relevant to space and mecha...sort of...
> > 
> > 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...
> > 
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=67900
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > I've tried tinkering with this lot's, but could never figure it out...
> > 
> > Thanks everyone! =^)
> > 
> > -Geordan-



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my two studs: outside natural sunlight is the best. don't underestimate cloudy/overcast days though. overcast days are ideal conditions for photographing artwork for slides so it my work for lego models (i don't see why not). give them both a try (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.publish.photography)

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