New light box, for better or for worse?

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:59 pm

I need your opinions. I think the pics of the folders are too dark, maybe add another lamp to the equation, or move back like for a fixed blade and zoom in? My other box ws too small for fixed blades, so it needed to tbe remodeled. Should I try a different background color?

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:12 pm

Hi MM. The detail on the knives is excellent. Perhaps you might try a lighter background for comparison.

s-k

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:27 pm

...The detail on the knives is excellent...

Ok show us the box and tell us what you did....Please

4ever3 · Post by **4ever3** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:40 pm

Hey Muskrat, I agree with SK, try a lighter background, and show us a pic of the box... Please

I like the lighting

sunburst · Post by **sunburst** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:12 pm

I agree that your detail is nice MM but I also think that the background is a little dark.

Thanks for asking,

Sunburst

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:55 am

thanks for the feedback guys, I'll try a lighter background. Here are a couple pics with a little more light

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:41 am

I can see you've been working on it, my own pictures are starting to look bad compared to yours.

A bit to much light on the last 2. It is starting to flood out detail by light reflecting off the blades, especially on the second picture. Detail and light was better before.

Try a background of faded Levi's or something similar. Getting there!

richied · Post by **richied** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:55 pm

justold52 wrote: ...The detail on the knives is excellent...

Ok show us the box and tell us what you did....Please

Yea, Please show us the box

I didn't think you needed to improve your other pics

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:52 pm

richied wrote:
justold52 wrote: ...The detail on the knives is excellent...

Ok show us the box and tell us what you did....Please
Yea, Please show us the box I didn't think you needed to improve your other pics

here si the box. The folder pictures were ok, but my small box wouldn't accomodate the larger fixed blades, so I needed to build a bigger one. Here is the box, a steel rod frame covered with 2 layers of thin white sheet, so far only one lamp shining in from the right but I think another will be in short order. Plus all the natural light in mid day coming in from the window directly above the box. I'll find something lighter to use for a background. The pile of books to the right are usually set dead center in front of the box to act as a tripod

ea42 · Post by **ea42** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:48 am

MM, if you've got two or three small cheap mirrors, maybe four or five inches high, you could prop them up in front of the knife to reflect light back on it. Of course this will work better with the knives that are propped up. You don't need them right on top of it, eight to ten inches away works fine. A sheet of white paper also works in a pinch. Watch the really light backgrounds, they'll result in a false reading and make the resulting exposure of the knife too dark.

Eric