Thanks. Each one posed it's own little lighting difficulty. Some are very rounded and very reflective, others are pretty flat and not particularly reflective. I didn't have enough foam core handy to build the light stage/box that I wanted for the job so I ended up using a tabletop setup, a single 30x30 inch board, a flash with a MiniSoftbox diffuser, and white towel to bounce and diffuse the light, and a darkened room. Some of them I made six or seven different exposures, moving the flash head and reflectors around a bit, others only took one or two shots. All settings were exclusively manual.
At one point, I realized that the red/yellow shirt I was wearing was putting some odd colors into the mix, so I switched to a black shirt ... for some I used the self timer and ducked to take out reflections. Overall, I know how to do this much better and I'll be ready when he brings the next set over to photograph. As it is, though, he says what I've done is very satisfactory ... for an hour's work total, end to end, I'm happy with it. They look better in the full resolution, 300 ppi 8x10 frames, of course: the downsizing and sharpening for the web blew out some of the contrast curves. fun stuff. I just love the stories those badges represent. Godfrey On Jul 25, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Some are quite beautiful. Some appear to be much better lit than > others. Did you use a stationary light setup? The deep shadows on > some are puzzling. > Paul > On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> A little "gallery every so often" ... A neighbor asked me to record >> his collection of police badges. Some are quite beautiful. Just a >> quickie job: some of these JPEGs lost a bit when the gallery creator >> resized them, but they're fun to look at anyway. >> >> http://homepage.mac.com/godders/police-badge-01/ >> >> All taken with the Pentax DS + A50/2.8 Macro, a copystand and a very >> fast, crude flash setup. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
