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Thats no problem. T-Bone and I will try again in January.
By the way- Are you a baseball fan? Birdwatcher? Man of the cloth?
Just wondering why “Mr Cardinal”?
HAHAHA! Seinfeld seems to creep into life all the time doesn’t it.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Hey Micheal d!
If you’d like and if its OK with Mr Cardinal we could change the time. There are only 3 of us right now and one of them is my girlfriend who said “T-Bone!” when I asked her what she wanted to be called.
The only thing I have all day is a Festivus party at 6.
Would 11:30 am be ok with everyone? Is there a better time? Lets hash it out.
Actually- I meant to say Saturday December 10th. Not sure where I got 9th.
NEW DATE- December 10th 1 pm.
Ill check out that church sale. Thanks!
Im just going to throw an date out and see what happens.
December 9th 1pm at Starbucks in Old Town near the torpedo factory.
We talk eBay with no agenda. Anyone?
Brad
I just looked at your camera manual online and if you go to page 72 you will see how to manually set your white balance. It gives you some suggestions on which options to choose from -much easier than picking color temperatures like I suggested. Try a few different ones till you get the color which is closest to real life and all your other pictures will have the same color.
Im pretty sure the problem is that you have have an auto white balance feature turned on.
Basically your camera is changing what it considers “white” every time you change positions. Set it once on manual and it will keep that white reading (and every other color reading) until you manually change it again or switch to auto.
Try manually setting your white balance and see if that solves it. You should try around 5600 K for outdoors as a setting and 3200K indoors under tungsten light or just shoot a white piece of paper and press the white balance button.
I hope this helps!
Just a matter of opinion but I think if you turned off the bottom lights you would have a much better image. Shadows show depth and give texture. When you take them away you get a more flat photo.
You have a really cool setup by the way and I love the hat!
My store on eBay is Virginiapicks. I have a little of everything I guess. Most fit in the cabinets but if they don’t they just go on top.
Maybe you could buy a few large folding cardboard display sheets from a hobby store. Surround your object with a couple of them and eave a small hole or leave a small break to shoot through.
The other thing you could try if you are a DIYer like me is get a hula hoop and put a curtain on it. You could suspend it with string around your item and shoot through an opening in the curtain.
I would use white for maximum lighting.
Do you sell teapots? LOL!!
No problem.
Also if you want to show texture on your material you can hit it from the side. Kind of like if you set a flashlight down on a table and the beam shoots down the table. Anything lacey would really show up well. You would in effect be highlighting the material and leaving the holes in shadow. I do that when I shoot those 3D topographical maps. Shoot the light from the side so that the valleys are dark. Kind of like when the sun first peaks over the horizon.
