990 Potato Masher

This time it is a Potato Masher. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon CP 990. Converted to duo tone in Photoshop.



Larger version in my album “990 Still Life Images” at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Studio lighting set up as in my earlier posting in the Nikon forum:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=351035

Slight post processes in Photoshop. Minimal adjustment of the RGB curve. The canvas area was increased in the dark areas without any image detail.

Cheers!

Furrukh

Furrukh,

I like this shot.

Couple questions: Did you use diffuse light for this (i.e. the umbrella from your setup), or direct. And how do you enable duotone capability in PS? It's always greyed out on mine...

Greg

Furrukh said:

This time it is a Potato Masher. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon CP
990. Converted to duo tone in Photoshop.

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Member said:

Slight post processes in Photoshop. Minimal adjustment of the RGB curve.
The canvas area was increased in the dark areas without any image detail.

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Thanks Greg. I did use exactly the set up with the umbrella. A lot of silver ware type of studio photography is done by strip lights, which are long and thin diffusers, with one or two strobes in them. The diffusion prevents hot spots on the shiny surfaces, and the long thin shape of the diffusers produce long highlights parallel to the length of the objects being photographed. Direct light from a strobe would simply appear as some hot spots on the image. To get the kind of effect in this image you need diffusion. For photography like this a studio strobe with a modeling light is essential, so that you can see exactly where the light is falling even before the strobe fires. When I took this photograph I knew exactly where the light was going to fall. I moved around until I got exactly what I wanted.

About Photoshop and duotone. When your image is in color, then the duotone menu selection is dimmed out. You have to convert your image to grayscale first. After that the duotone menu selection becomes available. This is always a two-step process. First grayscale, then duotone.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Furrukh

Greg Durrett said:

I like this shot.

Couple questions: Did you use diffuse light for this (i.e. the umbrella
from your setup), or direct. And how do you enable duotone capability in
PS? It's always greyed out on mine...

Greg

Furrukh said:

This time it is a Potato Masher. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon CP
990. Converted to duo tone in Photoshop.

Click to expand...

[snipped cool image]

Member said:

Slight post processes in Photoshop. Minimal adjustment of the RGB curve.
The canvas area was increased in the dark areas without any image detail.

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Very nice shot. The transition is very, very subtle from the black (5...7 ?) of the potato masher to the seamless paper background. Only downloading the orig 336K file and looking at the transitions using the info box would tell the exact story.

This transition becomes every so slightly less subtle in the original I viewed at your site. I like em both but must honestly say I that much prefer the original in this case. I run into the same condition quite often with some of my .jpg postings. It's aways a "toss up" whether I should post the original size or the smaller version.

Keep on shooting and enjoying!

I like the masher, but where's the spuds?
Man, I love spuds!

Keep Shootin'
Lonnie

Furrukh said:

This time it is a Potato Masher. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon CP
990. Converted to duo tone in Photoshop.



Larger version in my album “990 Still Life Images” at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Studio lighting set up as in my earlier posting in the Nikon forum:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=351035

Slight post processes in Photoshop. Minimal adjustment of the RGB curve.
The canvas area was increased in the dark areas without any image detail.

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Rob, good observations. Converting from Apple RGB to sRGB color space also changes transition areas a bit. Both this image and the half sized image at Zing have been optimized for web presentation and are therefore in sRGB color space with its smaller color gamut. The full version on my hard disc is in Apple RGB and is optimized to the Epson 1270 printer. It is a lot of work optimizing a single image for different media. Subtleties disappear (or sometime appear from nowhere!) in all these conversions!

Cheers!

Furrukh

Rob Patterson said:

Very nice shot. The transition is very, very subtle from the black (5...7
?) of the potato masher to the seamless paper background. Only
downloading the orig 336K file and looking at the transitions using the
info box would tell the exact story.

This transition becomes every so slightly less subtle in the original I
viewed at your site. I like em both but must honestly say I that much
prefer the original in this case. I run into the same condition quite
often with some of my .jpg postings. It's aways a "toss up" whether I
should post the original size or the smaller version.

Keep on shooting and enjoying!

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Lonnie! The spuds got mashed by the spud masher. I promise, next time, some real unmashed spuds!

Cheers!

Fururkh

lonniebathke said:

I like the masher, but where's the spuds?
Man, I love spuds!

Keep Shootin'
Lonnie

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