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Re: Mystery light
Duck, As suggested. After breakfast. Don't look too closely, sir. No need for you to worry about competition coming from this direction. Matt
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Maybe not, but you do learn a lot from these exercise.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Thu May 24, 2018 6:00 pmDuck, As suggested. After breakfast. Don't look too closely, sir. No need for you to worry about competition coming from this direction. Matt
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I especially love the chair and the 'shrooms. 

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Thanks Chuck. Here's another eggshells photo I prefer because of the angle. Does the cloth distract? Matt
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The cloth may distract a little. It's not the texture so much as the wrinkles. I don't think I would even mention it had you not. One thing you might try is a white background, coved so as to be seamless (a sheet of posterboard works). White on white in soft light can be very striking but tricky to expose since your meter will want to underexpose to make the white gray (middle gray). Generally just watch the histogram and expose to the right.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 2:19 pmThanks Chuck. Here's another eggshells photo I prefer because of the angle. Does the cloth distract? Matt

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All the great photographers use cameras! No, really.

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Thanks Chuck. I may just use that suggestion as motivation to play around in PS. I'll send any half-way decent results your way. Best for the holiday weekend MattCharles Haacker wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 2:39 pmThe cloth may distract a little. It's not the texture so much as the wrinkles. I don't think I would even mention it had you not. One thing you might try is a white background, coved so as to be seamless (a sheet of posterboard works). White on white in soft light can be very striking but tricky to expose since your meter will want to underexpose to make the white gray (middle gray). Generally just watch the histogram and expose to the right.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 2:19 pmThanks Chuck. Here's another eggshells photo I prefer because of the angle. Does the cloth distract? Matt![]()
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Here is a good exercise to tackle this weekend, since you're on tabletop work. Joe Edelman put out a great little video about how to see light on a subject... using a egg. Check out the video I linked below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7CcUrUD2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7CcUrUD2g
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I remember this terrific video. Last October we discussed the egg assignment I had back in school: viewtopic.php?f=89&t=3082&p=21229&hilit=egg#p21229Duck wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 4:28 pmHere is a good exercise to tackle this weekend, since you're on tabletop work. Joe Edelman put out a great little video about how to see light on a subject... using a egg. Check out the video I linked below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7CcUrUD2g
Friends call me Chuck.
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(I prefer to present pictures in albums because I can put them in specific order.)
All the great photographers use cameras! No, really.

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Chuck, Went back to that egg exercise you mentioned. I'll have to do that. The bent poster board is just what I need to eliminate a horizon. Thanks. Matt
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"...approach the light as opposed to the subject." Stan Godwin
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