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Owen Dare YaBB Administrator Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 397 Gladstone Qld Australia	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #19 - Feb 11^th, 2008 at 12:12pm Jerry, I used a twin floodlight from above and another from each end aimed through the front ports. If I had two more I would have used them though.
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Jerry_Poindexter Ex Member	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #18 - Feb 11^th, 2008 at 11:14am Great info, Owen! I need to make one for sure. How many lights were you using in the last pics in the series - 1 for each window? Thanks, Jerry
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ryan Bronze Member Offline Posts: 8	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #17 - Feb 7^th, 2008 at 5:00pm thanks for the info owen im runnin to the shed to put one of these light boxes together right now ill be retaking shots of the dragon weave i have posted on this site will repost the results thanks again ryan
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Re: How to photograph your thread art
Reply #16 - Feb 1^st, 2008 at 7:29am

I was wondering how your course is going.
I'm planning to pick up a decent digi camera when we go to the US.
The one we have is fine for happy snaps and in the boat, but he who dies with the most toys wins Wink

The pics above have been severely reduced in quality to reduce the file size to something web friendly.
That's why the slight blurred edges etc.

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Re: How to photograph your thread art
Reply #15 - Jan 31^st, 2008 at 9:38pm

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Great results. from the course in digital photgraphy I learned that depending on the make white balance is quite different recomended play with all best part about digital can always delet. Another tip with macro is to use the timer will take out any hand shack from. I have found that different cameras have better macro mine will only come as cloase as 10 cm my sons has super macro 1 cm big difference
the white box is great will be building one of those in the future. a good background and the right exposure will help if you dont want to build the box though you need to play with the camera on manual to achieve results. Most new cameras on manual will tell you what exspure to use by a graph displayed on LCD screen being in the middle is good. Most takes in this case do not need flash if exsposure is set right only time flash is really needed is in the middle of the day when yiu can not have the subject look into the sun to take the shadow of the face sounds stupid but true. sorry cant put all into words but can advise good course if get oppertunity to do taught me how to read a manual better if nothing else

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Owen Dare YaBB Administrator Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 397 Gladstone Qld Australia	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #14 - Jan 30^th, 2008 at 6:19pm A minute later and a change of card we have this
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Owen Dare YaBB Administrator Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 397 Gladstone Qld Australia	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #13 - Jan 30^th, 2008 at 6:18pm I took a couple of more shots just to show the results using different colour card. As I said, this is done with a camera worth only a few hundred dollars. First is some general rod building stuff with a white background.
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Raymond Adams Gold Member Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 206 Sacramento, CA USA	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #12 - Jan 22^nd, 2008 at 9:41am Awesome tutorial Owen! I will be refering guys & gals here to see it often I'm sure. This is an area that lots of builders have trouble with. Myself included. THANKS!
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Reply #11 - Jan 10^th, 2008 at 7:47am

After playing around some more I've also found that you can improve your results even further by adjusting the white balance on your digital camera.
As you can see, the photos above have a blue hue to them, probably due to the halogen lighting.
By adjusting the white balance I was able to get the white background to be a brilliant white.

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Re: How to photograph your thread art
Reply #10 - Dec 30^th, 2007 at 8:40pm

Final pic is a basic drawing of the layout.

So there you go!

If there are any photographers out there that can add further insight, please do!

These pics were taken on a Nikon Coolpix 4300 point & shoot digital worth only a couple of hundred dollars.
They were not retouched other than to crop them.

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Owen

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Owen Dare YaBB Administrator Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 397 Gladstone Qld Australia	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #9 - Dec 30^th, 2007 at 8:38pm The uniform lighting makes it so much easier to do a composite of several shots on weaves that go too far around the rod to capture in one photo.
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Owen Dare YaBB Administrator Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 397 Gladstone Qld Australia	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #8 - Dec 30^th, 2007 at 8:37pm The problem with clear photos is you can see every detail of your weave. Look at those crooked threads! Never noticed them by eye
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Owen Dare YaBB Administrator Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 397 Gladstone Qld Australia	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #7 - Dec 30^th, 2007 at 8:35pm If you look closely, you can see the reflection of the camera in the epoxy because I have to have my cheap unit so close. I think the extra lighting ports will help this, but an SLR camera with a better lens which allows you to move away a bit and still work in macro would be better.
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Owen Dare YaBB Administrator Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 397 Gladstone Qld Australia	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #6 - Dec 30^th, 2007 at 8:33pm This wooden grip was simply placed on the white card. Not the very slight shadow underneath... Just like in the catalogs
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Owen Dare YaBB Administrator Proficient Weaver Offline Posts: 397 Gladstone Qld Australia	Re: How to photograph your thread art Reply #5 - Dec 30^th, 2007 at 8:32pm This reel seat was suspended on a dowel
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