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Post by aussie-rabbit on Sept 26, 2012 15:16:23 GMT
Yes, photography, something I do not excel at, so for those of you who do such a great job I have a question, how do I go about photographing a blade to show off the features such as hamon or patterning, my camera is good and has a great macro feature but I can't seem to get good blade pics.
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Post by Warlokk on Sept 26, 2012 23:01:32 GMT
Best advice I can give for shooting swords is try to use natural light as much as possible... shiny metal things are REALLY hard to photograph with a flash. Pick a day that's fairly clear, but also pick a spot where the sun isn't reflecting off the metal back into your lens, and you should be OK. This can be outside, or indoors by a window, as long as you're not getting crazy reflections but have a good amount of light it should do the trick.
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Post by Elheru Aran on Sept 27, 2012 19:46:08 GMT
Try also to have a neutral, light coloured background of some sort.
Get a massive sheet of paper from an art supply store and hang it on the wall above a horizontal surface so that there's a clean curve between the vertical and horizontal, and try photographing the sword against that...
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Post by Kuya on Sept 27, 2012 23:15:50 GMT
I'm not as big a fan of natural light as most. With natural light, the only real decent light for pictures is only available during the "magic hours" of one hour before to one hour after after sunrise and sunset. Ambient lighting is preferred over your basic camera direct forward flash. Controlled, bounced, and/or diffused flash is actually a good lighting medium to use. You've seen how studio shoots use those big diffused "flash boxes" positioned at strategic angles, right? I use flash in many of my pictures, and they turn out well enough for me to get complimented on them. Of course, having that big bright ball of annoying light on the blade in some of them sucks... but in those pictures, I'm using the light that bounces off the blade to also light up the areas next to the ball to bring out patterns or details that I can't bring out otherwise with the current photography gear I have (crazy old Nikon DSLR with a low-end SB-400 mounted flash).
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Post by ken~kata on Sept 28, 2012 1:46:21 GMT
Maybe Ned could help? .... Ned???
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