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In praise of grey backgrounds
I love shooting knives on neutral grey backgrounds because they impart none of that nasty color cast stuff, famous for ruining many an otherwise good knife photograph. I tend to do this with knives I own and save the fancier backgrounds for customers.
Grey is plain to some people so you have to make the objects pop using various gradient, edge and shadow treatments, being careful to always keep it subtle. One potential drawback to grey (or any uniform color) is 'banding' such that the luminance and tone changes across the background look like a topo map. Banding, if encountered, is fixed by adding noise. I usually add no more than 1% noise to chase away banding. Works great. This first image was a real challenge. The second example is simpler but the same principles apply. #1 #2 #3 An older photo - imagine how this image would be diminished if the beautiful colors of these handle parts and fittings were also reflecting a thin vail of colored and/or patterned background Last edited by Buddy Thomason; 03-23-2012 at 07:41 PM. |
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I'm totally into this grey background thing though it can't go on forever...
Last edited by Buddy Thomason; 03-22-2012 at 12:27 AM. |
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I see your point?..it is awesome?..great shots.
John I. __________________ Life Member: NRA, VFW, & The Alaska Bowhunters Assn Voting Member: GA Custom Knifemakers' Guild and The Knifemakers GUILD MSG, US ARMY Retired |
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