What Mark said. Excellent image, but the shadows are too dense as presented. A levels adjustment or a shadow/highlight tool correction, as Mark suggested, is your best bet here. I think more exposure would make that white light up too much.
Paul On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Mark C wrote: > Looks like a great solution and the image is sharp with great detail. It does > look a little dark on my screen but I pulled it into Photoshop and adjusted > the shadows (shadows / highlights tool) and all that detail inside pops out > nicely. > > Good solution! > > On 1/31/2012 8:54 AM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: >> ... and just a little tinkering with things to get it as functional as >> possible ... >> >> Here is my shooting booth. Just 3 foam-core boards cut to fit together >> nicely, on a white table.<$9. The CoolLite 6 units bounce off them, and >> have a translucent piece of plastic on their inside edge to diffuse any >> stray direct light. >> >> http://www.brendemuehl.net/images/studio.jpg >> >> So now I can get a really shiny metal part like this without glare. Some >> things shoot better in raw, others are just fine with jpg. The only >> shortcoming is that black center where I am firing through. But that is >> easily resolved though it is not at all critical. A little contrast makes, >> imho, a little better image. >> >> http://www.brendemuehl.net/images/70074BP800.jpg >> >> Some may say that it is underexposed. Perhaps. It looks just a little dark >> on my new Dell laptop, but looks perfect on my Samsung SA350 display. I may >> have to shoot for a little extra brightness to compensate for monitor >> differences. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Collin Brendemuehl >> "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" >> -- Jim Elliott >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
