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Old 02-02-2010, 11:10 PM
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Shooting with daylight...

I've got a friend who started getting more serious about her photography as the last of her three daughters went out the door to college... http://www.ranchimages.com/

I sent her links to this photography forum and some of Jim Cooper's "tutorials"... light tent, etc., simply to see if this kind of photography had any interest for her.

It seems, sometime in the past, I found a fairly large discussion by Coop and others on taking knife pictures in daylight and I feel like it has to be here somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find it.

Do any of you have links to that daylight discussion, either here or other, you would be willing to dig out and put up?

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Old 02-03-2010, 11:13 PM
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I found this old thread - the best of the ones that surfaced when I used the forum search option: http://www.knifenetwork.com/forum/sh...=natural+light

There may be others depending on one's search criteria.


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Old 02-04-2010, 06:51 AM
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I chased a note about this thread to Phil496. He's a longtime photographer who was always a proponent of 'simple is good'.

Daylight isn't abundantly simple, but the available lighting is. For one thing the color balance of skylight varies dramatically from 3000k temps at clear dawn and sunset to 6500k at high noon overcast. Each will have a different effect and look.

All good product lighting still requires placement of reflectors and a possible overhead diffuser.

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Old 02-04-2010, 02:08 PM
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Thank you both for the help.

Buddy, I'm sorry I didn't find that on my own. I looked at thread titles on a thread and post search for SharpByCoop and that didn't find it.

Jim, Thanks for sending me to an expert... we'll see what happens.

I'll pass this on to the friend I mentioned. After messing with one knife outdoors in both shade and sunlight (mid-day), she seems to have an interest in messing with it more.

Mike

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As per Coop, the main issue outdoors is variable conditions. That's not the only source of natural sunlight though - a large North facing window provides more consistent, and very beautiful light but to take advantage of this 'indoor daylight' you have to add highlights and shadow strategically with any of the myriad approaches. After all, bouncing and blocking the light in nuanced ways ultimately makes the image.


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Old 02-05-2010, 10:12 AM
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Thank you for that, Buddy.

I/we started browsing and sorting through the accumulated data here. Very easy to get side tracked. Spent sometime in the thread with your re-shoot of the Jerry Lairdson knife. Until I read the thread, I felt it was one of my absolute favorite knives... now it's one of my favortie knife pictures.

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Old 02-05-2010, 02:49 PM
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Thanks, Mike, for those kind words. I've been trying to find a way to use that Rhino in another knife image but I'd be lucky to hit the spot like I did on that Lairson knife again. That's one of my favorite images too. All about light and shadow too - both of those images of the Lairson blade.


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I got your message Coop, and here is the link to the tutorial I did on 'How I Photograph Knives'

http://knifetalkonline.com/smf/index.php?topic=83.0

The tutorial actually starts with my (PhilL) third post on the thread.
It is the simplest setup I've found to photograph knives, and it's the setup I use.
I do suggest having an image editing program for doing your color, contrast and cropping.

There is also a tutorial on 'How I Do Image Editing'.

http://knifetalkonline.com/smf/index.php?topic=91.0

Questions or comments can be posted here, there or you can email me.
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Thank you, Coop and thank you Phil for the links and their content.

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Phil,
Great tutorials, thanks for taking the time to post them.


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I got your message Coop, and here is the link to the tutorial I did on 'How I Photograph Knives'

http://knifetalkonline.com/smf/index.php?topic=83.0

The tutorial actually starts with my (PhilL) third post on the thread.
It is the simplest setup I've found to photograph knives, and it's the setup I use.
I do suggest having an image editing program for doing your color, contrast and cropping.

There is also a tutorial on 'How I Do Image Editing'.

http://knifetalkonline.com/smf/index.php?topic=91.0

Questions or comments can be posted here, there or you can email me.
I must that these are really valuable thread. You have done your tutorial real great which can be understood by anyone who have interests in photographing knives.


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