Posted 01/04/2008 9:18 pm
Thanks for the comments !
Yea, I need to sort out the white balance thing. I am so anxious to experiment with lighting I'm leaving the camera on "auto" for everything else. Bad! But next round of coins shoots, I'll make it a point to try to fix that (even though I can fix it with software, I'd like to get it right in the camera in the first place).
Even though lighting has been my main focus so far (especially before I got this camera), sadly all I've managed to do is make a bunch of silly shots! However, there is a LOT to lighting. So far, I've been doing all kinds of variations of axial lighting with *one* light source. I think I can do a lot to take away the shadows with a second softer light (diffused) but I want to get some idea of the subtleties of the axial thing first, and that's hard to do when the 2nd light makes it so . . . well, uniform.
I did all these shots with a tripod and using the timer function on the camera. I tried making a copy stand, which worked GREAT with my little point and click, but my SLR is a bit on the heavy side. It rocks and shakes at the height I need to be at for some shots. I think I just need a thicker beam, haha. But tripod shooting isn't bad either - it's very stable, if not as convenient (and I got some shadows from the tripod arms in a few shots, whoops). Still, I do want to setup some kind of more stable, more easily "setable" copy table. But that's a project for a few weeks from now (when funds are replentished - the wife is on me about spending too much this month and it's only the 4th day!).
When I get some free time (work, ugh), and not just a few minutes to post, but a few hours to really mess around, I want to setup the tripod and not move it, and get a coin, and with the same lighting, take a series of photos at different apertures, shutter speeds, ISO, and see what it seems to do.
Well, thanks again for the comments, I really appreciate it.
Yea, I need to sort out the white balance thing. I am so anxious to experiment with lighting I'm leaving the camera on "auto" for everything else. Bad! But next round of coins shoots, I'll make it a point to try to fix that (even though I can fix it with software, I'd like to get it right in the camera in the first place).
Even though lighting has been my main focus so far (especially before I got this camera), sadly all I've managed to do is make a bunch of silly shots! However, there is a LOT to lighting. So far, I've been doing all kinds of variations of axial lighting with *one* light source. I think I can do a lot to take away the shadows with a second softer light (diffused) but I want to get some idea of the subtleties of the axial thing first, and that's hard to do when the 2nd light makes it so . . . well, uniform.
I did all these shots with a tripod and using the timer function on the camera. I tried making a copy stand, which worked GREAT with my little point and click, but my SLR is a bit on the heavy side. It rocks and shakes at the height I need to be at for some shots. I think I just need a thicker beam, haha. But tripod shooting isn't bad either - it's very stable, if not as convenient (and I got some shadows from the tripod arms in a few shots, whoops). Still, I do want to setup some kind of more stable, more easily "setable" copy table. But that's a project for a few weeks from now (when funds are replentished - the wife is on me about spending too much this month and it's only the 4th day!).
When I get some free time (work, ugh), and not just a few minutes to post, but a few hours to really mess around, I want to setup the tripod and not move it, and get a coin, and with the same lighting, take a series of photos at different apertures, shutter speeds, ISO, and see what it seems to do.
Well, thanks again for the comments, I really appreciate it.
