Excellent Advice Dave! Jerry
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From: "Dave Freeman mjwy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING
Dear List;
For the beginners of photographing meteorites and other rocks, minerals;
there are some handy tips to get more response to your photos/adds to
sell.
1.) throw away the blurry pictures. With digital photos so easy to delete
and take another, why link to blurry pictures?
2.) a view of the overall size of the specimen is critical. a top or above
angled view, with good lighting, and a scale such as a ruler, ones' thumb
(which also helps with color scale, and trim your nails and wash hands
before photographing), or other size defining characteristic is very
important. Since Ssex sells cars and everything else, I have thought of
getting a model with nicely done nails to hold a specimen for the camera.
Close up of the hand only as we still want the focus to be on the rock
specimen!
3. ) background area can help or detract from the specimen. I prefer a
black soft cloth as a background so the viewer focuses on the specimen,
not what is in the back ground.
4.) Get one good clear correctly lit close up of the specimen to show
chondrules, visible iron specks, fusion crust...what ever is the best
trait to show off in the picture.
5.) So, in the big picture: one good picture of overall size and
shape of the specimen with a color and size scale and a darker less
interesting back ground. A second picture of close up with good
lighting and maybe a hand or scale/ruler to show good size and define
colors. One can have more pictures of different angles, filters, etc. and
even just one picture can represent a specimen many times. It is
critical to delete the blurry pictures, to get some form of scale of the
over all shape and size of the specimen. John G. has helped me to
understand lighting in that many cameras do better with a partial cloudy
day as direct sunlight gives to much light to the subject. Practice using
the camera and teach it to be your friend, good pictures will sell items
twice as fast as poor quality pictures.
Hope this helps the amateur photographer. I am sure that many of you can
add to this one.
Dave Freeman
eBay power seller mjwy
IMCA # 3864
Rock Springs, WY
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