Remarkable. The shadow is quite strong and the background quite dark, so fooled me!
Remarkable. The shadow is quite strong and the background quite dark, so fooled me!
Nice to meet another turner out here... That's a really pretty simple bowl you turned and it looks great. I'm going to stick with my camera for now. I just need to figure out the limited settings I can use to try to get the color more representative. I spend a lot of time on Corel to get the colors close. I shouldn't have to do that..
Thanks to everyone for talking me out of a rather large expense. I'll keep working using the Sony I have...
Dave
I have an EOS30D but if the lighting is rubbish then the camera cannot do magic for you. I built a lightbox and put aluminium foil on the left and right insides to try and get the light to bounce around more. I have been quite happy with the results. I'm still using the standard lens that came with it but for very close up work I simply added a couple of stepping rings. You get great depth of field and real close zoom. But I'm no expert so my experience stops there.
If someone tried to make me dig my own grave I would say No.
They're going to kill me anyway and I'd love to die the way I lived:
Avoiding Manual Labour.
Dave,
Two things.
First, you will find that you can get perfect color if you invest in a system, either card or plastic cube, that has White/Black/Grey patches that you can use to set perfect White balance after-the-fact. Q-Card is an inexpensive printed card system. But, my favorite is the SpyderCube from DataColor. It is a plastic cube having white, absolute black and grey features. It's works magically to allow you to use PhotoShop to pop the colors into place with three simple dropper clicks.
Secondly, shoot in RAW rather than JPG. That is probably not possible with your current camera. RAW give you a LOT more control over the colors when processing your images. Most all of the dSLR cameras provide you with the ability to shoot in RAW. The Canon series goes one better by giving you a free tool to process the RAW images with a few simple clicks. If you do want to try an SLR, then I'd suggest the new T4i as a wonderful choice. I no longer use Photoshop for processing my images because Digital Photo Professional that comes with Canon cameras is so easy and good.
As for depth of field issues, take a look at photo stacking applications like Helicon focus. ALL cameras have limited field of view and products like Helicon Focus can be used to over come those limitations.
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Dave, it's been over four months now - how goes things on the photography front?
Paul
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