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Jarrell Conley
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Oh yes. Ellery what is the material under and behind the glass? It looks like it has a texture. Is that in the material or added later?
Jarrell
Jarrell
Jarrell, You're a creative person, I'd be interested to see what you could do with your 990 around the housework to make it fun! Maybe a vacuum cleaner's eye view of the room? Ultra wide angle? Hmmmmm.....
I do use a number of other El Cheapo bit and peices, does this
qualify me to become a member???
The setup I was using tonight to photograph a cactus flower looked
pretty good (and cheap!)...
LOL
Michael Offe,
South Australia.
I just had a Lexar 128Mb 12x go bad after only one use. It read fine in the reader, then I put it in the camera (990) and nothing, it said card could not be read to. It took about 2 weeks, but Lexar did send me a new one, which looks more "modern" even though the one that failed was only a month old. First and only problem to date!
ISOMatrix
Senior Member
Wow! Very nice Ellery! As Jarrell had mentioned....that is some interesting backdrop you used...almost looks like felt, what is it? I'm in a search for some "poor-man's" backdrop material.--CP5000, OM-2n
Ellery Potash
Senior Member
Pictures were taken on my back patio deck, with only ambient sunlight.
Background is sheet of black construction paper that the mineature vases sit upon, and which is rolled-up, behind, to form a background, as well.
The shades of gray are caused by variations of the light across the black paper surface (controlled by adjusting the table to catch the sun from different angles).
Background is sheet of black construction paper that the mineature vases sit upon, and which is rolled-up, behind, to form a background, as well.
The shades of gray are caused by variations of the light across the black paper surface (controlled by adjusting the table to catch the sun from different angles).
ISOMatrix
Senior Member
Sweet! Initially I thought you meant roofing paper/felt (construction) but I suspect you mean just normal run of the mill black construction paper from an art supply dealer. I guess the roofing paper could be used as well, it's semi rigid, relatively inexpensive, available in wide widths and lengths but can smell a bit nasty and get your hands/subjects marked w/ a little tar if overhandled.--CP5000, OM-2n
Ellery Potash
Senior Member
My younger son is in 3rd-grade. A pack of colored construction paper is always around the house.
Jarrell Conley
Forum Pro
Well darn. The patio. Ellery you're going to walk off with the Dim Bulb Camera Club Award for the cheapest lighting system if you're not careful. Come to think of it, I've seen this done when using the subtractive instead of the additive lighting method. That is, you'll place a black card on one side or more of the subject like this,
to take light away when you can't or don't for some reason want to Add light.
Note the little diagram at the bottom. It's essentially the same light setup I use and also Dave.
Note, this is NOT my picture, but rather a Kodak ad for pro film, shot with Nikon 35mm. In this picture the photographer replaced the two white reflectors on either side of the table with black ones. One flash in front is fired into a 42 inch umbrella and two flashes are fired into umbrellas to overexpose the white background for a "hi key" effect. A silver reflector is lying on the table in front of the model.
For your information, this particular photographer will only hire models that have perfectly flawless complexions. I didn't want to be a model anyway!
to take light away when you can't or don't for some reason want to Add light.
Note the little diagram at the bottom. It's essentially the same light setup I use and also Dave.
Note, this is NOT my picture, but rather a Kodak ad for pro film, shot with Nikon 35mm. In this picture the photographer replaced the two white reflectors on either side of the table with black ones. One flash in front is fired into a 42 inch umbrella and two flashes are fired into umbrellas to overexpose the white background for a "hi key" effect. A silver reflector is lying on the table in front of the model.
For your information, this particular photographer will only hire models that have perfectly flawless complexions. I didn't want to be a model anyway!
John Bean
Member
I had a 48MB Lexar CF card go bad once after 6 months of use. One day it just started acting funny-first I could read/write to it in my camera, but not in my FotoShow, then after more experimenting it just stopped working completely. Lexar replaced it without too much hassle. They didn't speculate on what went wrong.
I have a SmartMedia card from a few years ago that I would love to rescue (we were at Disney with the kids during Christmas). I'm going to have to give that utility a try.
John
I have a SmartMedia card from a few years ago that I would love to rescue (we were at Disney with the kids during Christmas). I'm going to have to give that utility a try.
John
Jarrell Conley
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I hope you can rescue it, John. The only time I've had this problem, (knock on wood) was on a trip to Callaway Gardens one night to do the Christmas lights thing. We rode in an open, trolley type car and it's was cool and misting rain. I had my first digital camera with me, a little Fuji. For some reason, after that night I never could get the card to work. I kept getting the message that the card needed formatting, even though it was full of pictures. I guess they're not fool proof.
Jarrell
Jarrell
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Michael Offe
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I just posted a similar reply on to another thread. I have found that if I insert a card in my Sandisk reader 'BEFORE' turning the PC (Pentium4/WinXP) on, it sometimes doesn't want to work right. And on one occasion, it corrupted the file headers to a point they were unreadable. I was in a product shoot and could simply retake them so I didn't work very hard at recovery. However, I do try to always turn the PC on before inserting a card in the reader. HTH. PatiO. (The member, not the 'fun' place in the back garden. : )
Jarrell Conley
Forum Pro
Thanks for the tip, Patio. That could be whats happening.
Ed Rotberg
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charlotte legath
Guest
If this was told -sorry for repeating but how are you doing the frame around the photos?
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Jarrell Conley
Forum Pro
Hi Char,
I do it in Photoshop. I do it so much, I've gotten quick with it. If the image is 8x10 and a bit on the dark in tone, I make a "new" image and leave it white in color and 8.25x10.25 inches at the same resolution the photo is. I then move the picture over on that white background and adjust it til it's centered. I then make another "new" file, this time 11x14 inches, same resolution but I color sample somewhere in the photo on a pleasing dark tone and I use the paintbucket to tone the 11x14 file. I then move the photo with its white border (you have to flatten before moving) onto the larger file and that's it. You wind up with something like this.
It's a little extra trouble, but usually it's worth it. I do it by hand, but there are actions around for Photoshop that automate the process or you can record your own.
I do it in Photoshop. I do it so much, I've gotten quick with it. If the image is 8x10 and a bit on the dark in tone, I make a "new" image and leave it white in color and 8.25x10.25 inches at the same resolution the photo is. I then move the picture over on that white background and adjust it til it's centered. I then make another "new" file, this time 11x14 inches, same resolution but I color sample somewhere in the photo on a pleasing dark tone and I use the paintbucket to tone the 11x14 file. I then move the photo with its white border (you have to flatten before moving) onto the larger file and that's it. You wind up with something like this.
It's a little extra trouble, but usually it's worth it. I do it by hand, but there are actions around for Photoshop that automate the process or you can record your own.
ISOMatrix
Senior Member
Lol, I can't believe I'm even considering offering suggestions to one of the masters of craft but here goes...
Jarrell, have you tried your technique for frames by using the "Canvas Size" feature instead. You don't have to create new images and do any flatten work, also the original image is perfectly centered within the new image dimensions (if you increase the width and height by the same amount).
Here are my steps.
lets say image is 500x375pixels (for email, and posts here for instance).
Duplicate layer and discard old background layer.
Create a new empty layer and place it underneath the image layer.
Go to Image/Canvas size and increase canvas size to 520x395 lets say. (20 pixel frame)
The image layer wil now have transparency on the extra canvas dimensions.
Paint bucket fill the newly created empty layer underneath and voila! a perfectly centered frame border around your image.
--CP5000, OM-2n
Thomas Bauer
Senior Member
And even easeir to just add border in paint shop pro
from drop down menu in image option in top tool bar-- Thomas http://www.ycsphoto.com
from drop down menu in image option in top tool bar-- Thomas http://www.ycsphoto.com
Thomas Bauer
Senior Member
and you can even buttonize one of the borders to add an extra fancy finish, before or after the next additional border-- Thomas http://www.ycsphoto.com
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