> I encountered problems with light reflecting off the nixies, and it also > washed-out the glow, so I thought the solution was to photograph in low-light.
Light reflections you can improve by using polarizers. Sometimes light boxes and diffusers aren't the way to go (you get bigger reflections that way), it depends on the look you're after. > Attempting low-light photography led to annoying reflections of light from > adjacent tubes. It's a balancing act (polarizers will help here too, but not as much). > The picture I use for my icon from my big clock looks horrible, but the clock > itself looks amazing. After several different exposure settings and lighting > conditions I was not able to get a 'perfect shot'. I concluded I would need > to use photoshop, etc to get something acceptable. You may have to build a composite photo to get it to look just right. That's how they got the Enterprise to look so good in Star Trek (before they went to CGI): they'd do a model pass in normal light, then a highlight pass in the dark to get the accent lights (and sometimes a few other passes for certain details), then combine them. My sweetie worked at a photo lab for years doing product photography, including hard-to-photograph things like circuit boards and glassware. If you like, I can ask her for suggestions, but I doubt she's worked with nixies before (I could fire up a nixie project for her to play with, I suppose). - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/D89B8D52-232D-451C-9FCC-AD9D214EDCA2%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
