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Played with the digital camera late tonite. Had so much fun that it is now almost 1:00am and we just finished up. We tried some lighting tricks and played with the apeture settings.

What do you think?

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Wow, truly gorgeous photos. I wish I could do something a tenth as nice. I really need to get around to making that shadow box, so I can take a non crappy photo. Until then Ill continue to drool over the works of others.

By the way, I love both sets of grips in the first photo, where did you get them If you dont mind my asking?
 
Very nice!
Very nice grips in the first photos too. Making them yourself?
 
Thanks guys. Not sure what the wood is. We thought burled maple but you might be right on the burled buckey thing.
Actualley the grips are what started the whole "picture" night. We had be working on them for quite a few days. We wanted to offer 1911 grips as part of my custom work website. We (I say we, by BIL and I) are going to get som other woods soon. Right now we have enough of this wood for two more sets. If anyone is interested they can email me. [email protected]
 
I think you are well on your way to doing some nice photography! I am thinking about going digital as well. I think the technology is getting near 35mm standards.
 
Here is my review:

First of all, the best pic from these is the 2nd from the top.

The problem with the 1st is overexposure, use a shorter exposition time or larger F-value and try to avoid details burning out to white.

Try a different composition for the 1st-2nd where the background fills the frame and where the extra grip panels are fully visible and not covering the pistol.

In the 3rd pic the composition is OK, but the lighting is bad. Try to avoid direct lighting - for example aim the light source at the ceiling and place white sheets of paper around the subject to brighten up dark spots. Try to fit the whole mag in the pic.

The 4th is the least pleasing to the eye, blurry, depth of field too shallow (use larger F-value), overexposed, lighting, composition, etc.


With a little more practice and care you could take lot more better pictures than these! :)
 
Nice work on the pics and the grips!

I can't wait to get a digital camera n play around. With my 35mm I don't see the results until it's too late and it costs extra to get them on a CD-ROM.

Nik
 
nice-

but too many hotspots where it's clear that the flash was bouncing off of the object and then through the lense creating just plain white.

The books recommend shooting the flash through something like a white piece of paper (worked well for me) and bouncing off of a piece of paper and then having that throw light onto the object-- basically diffusing the light.
 
I agree the 2nd photo is best, exposure & lighting are the issues. Some blown highlights are not always a bad thing but your other shots are just washed out.

With a tripod you should have enough stability (long exposure) to bounce the light off your ceiling. The nice thing about most digicams is you can add some spot lights and still get a decent custom white balance (with a white card). For cheap, cheap, cheap reflectors you can wrap aluminum foil around 3-ring binder covers.
 
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