Handgun pictures: Let's see your recent best work. Ichiro style!

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Overall Joe I think without the light works better - I guess in a sense - one can imagine it switched on - seeing as it's there!

I have reshot my 22/45 to get up to date - just fitted a new Volquartsen comp' to it. Whether that'll improve my pin shooting remains very much to be seen LOL :D


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Chris:
That picture is a study itself in gun photography. The use of light and shadow within the backdrop, the angle, everything is very nice.

Great shot.

..Joe
 
Ok this is the last ones I swear. :) I went all out on trying to be Ichiro this time.

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Joe - thank you Sir for the kind comment. I only wish I didn't have to squish pics down so much to post - because there are some inevitable losses. Don Hart of course is ''Da Man'' and has his work well nailed, as no doubt you have seen.

Every time I make a new shot and use it - I look at it again and want to re-shoot - always something bugs me!

Clipse - NICE! #2 in particular benefits nicely from the colored light and the close up #5 - also most pleasing. Only suggestion I'd make is, to further enhance - find a way of having the gun propped up somehow - such that background is not just a flat plain..... but more like a horizontal and vertical component. then you'll get a bit more variety in lighting on background itself - which can complement the piece even more.
 
Nice work clipse - The red and blue lights are distributed well in the 3rd picture. Looks like marketing a CZ to Police Departments ;)
 
the third pic was the last one I did. I thought about focussing them on opposite sides of the grips instead of close together.

Thanks,

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Actually Joe - considering flash - those have really ''held'' quite well. All too often the flash focus produces a near burned out highlight. That first pic could probably be balanced out a bit by judicious work in an image program ... pulling back the brightest area a bit and evening things out.

I don't know if you can set up your white balance manually, or not - but if you can then consider two or three tungsten sources - above a white sheet as a diffuser ... and play with positions.

The background here is IMO a tad too ''agressive'' - tho as you have seen I do like a red type of background. Try and get some more muted red tones - or other colors you may like - I bought several 2 yard lengths of fabric from WalMart originally - and found fleece easier to use than some things - simply because no weave pattern to show. It does tho collect lint like no other!!

Of course on occasions a background pattern can even be complementary - instance denim.

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Joe - indulge me - I am meddling again! :p

I have played with that pic - albeit real quick. I have tried to balance the lighting a wee bit and also - altered the type of red - made it (IMO) less agressive - de-saturated a bit too. Not saying this is in any way definitive - far from it - but just another ''version'' from ol' meddlin' P95 :D


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Thanks again for the comments. I do appreciate them!

I "stole" the idea of a red background from you. Mine is a tennis shirt, and was the only red I had. I'm going to try something else now, a little more muted, and see how that comes out...

..Joe
 
YEah, it's one of those polyester T-Shirts that wick the sweat off you. I like walking out in stuff that gets their attention! :)

Here's one, but I'm not happy with it. Stainless and the flash don't go well together. I tried it more than anything as an experiment:

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..Joe

PS: And those ARE Black Talons. I got them mainly because they accessorize with the Bren so well! :D :D :D
 
Haha - Black Talons rule!!

Indeed, stainless can be a real bummer to get - always tend to be highlights that try to burn out whilst other areas want to stay too dark!

Here - and hardly your fault - the classic flash ''hot spot'' - so hard to avoid. One way to reduce this can be to take the pic with a layer or two of Kleenex over the flash window - diffuse the light a bit more. Also - if flash is at all moveable (probably not I suspect) - then aim it at other than subject matter and try to use white card to bounce it.

Do try some other light sources if possible - depending on how much control you have on white balance. If you have enough scope in an image application, it can be corrected afterwards to a degree.

Whatever - experiment is always a good way to go - keep trying various things until you find you can settle on something that works for you. All part of the fun :)
 
29-2

Just got my 29-2 back from S&W. The pretty gun far outweighs my photographic skills.


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Yeah, I know -- cheap grips. I'm looking for some good ones.
 
Haha - OK, another tennis shirt! Nice blue tho Joe - not as ''aggessive'' as the red LOL!

Lighting has worked quite well here - appears to be sourced from high right. Do tho when chance allows, play with multiple sources - which would give a more ''casual'' set of shadows - one light source giving some fill on shadows from other sources etc.

Nice SIG's :):)
 
Big Screws?

Catbird:

What in the heck type of bullets are those in that revolver?

They look like big screws! :confused:
 
A little different for me.......

Im no Icheey for sure but I try..
 

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