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Offline Phaedrus2129

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« on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 00:42:29 »
I'm hot as hell and have a crick in my back and I'm cranky because I just spent the last hour taking pictures of a keyboard I'm considering selling. And I spent more than half that time trying to get a decent picture of a keycap, using all different macro filters and angles and ISO settings and lighting arrangements and bending over with a bright lamp right next to my face.


You don't get told you might end up doing stuff like this when you get into photography. Before I would have just taken a few pictures with my ****ty Kodak and said Good enough! Now I actually care about clarity and color balance, so I torture myself trying to get a good shot, and when I did finally get one with everything near perfect there was a shadow of the lens. Gah. So I had to rearrange my lighting and take another five shots to get one as good.
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Offline kill will

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« Reply #1 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 00:47:50 »
i dont do it ... but people set up white areas with lighting and tripods to sell stuff.  definitely helps with sales.
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Offline Phaedrus2129

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« Reply #2 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 00:48:38 »
I'd do that eventually, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Currently own: IBM Model M 1391401 1988,  XArmor U9 prototype
Previously owned: Ricercar SPOS, IBM M13 92G7461 1994, XArmor U9BL, XArmor U9W prototype, Cherry G80-8200LPDUS, Cherry G84-4100, Compaq MX-11800, Chicony KB-5181 (SMK Monterey), Reveal KB-7061, Cirque Wave Keyboard (ergonomic rubber domes), NMB RT101 (rubber dome), Dell AT101W

Offline Phaedrus2129

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« Reply #3 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 00:55:05 »
That's a big-ass lego man.
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Previously owned: Ricercar SPOS, IBM M13 92G7461 1994, XArmor U9BL, XArmor U9W prototype, Cherry G80-8200LPDUS, Cherry G84-4100, Compaq MX-11800, Chicony KB-5181 (SMK Monterey), Reveal KB-7061, Cirque Wave Keyboard (ergonomic rubber domes), NMB RT101 (rubber dome), Dell AT101W

Offline kip69

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« Reply #4 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 05:52:05 »
Or a small cap, think different man! ;)

And here are some round tuits.  Just do it already LOL

http://www.mylot.com/w/photokeywords/round+tuit.aspx
I like this one

Offline firestorm

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« Reply #5 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 07:05:45 »
I consider myself somewhat OCD, but I have to distribute my compulsive efforts or I'd become suicidal or something.  

When it comes to photography, I can generally accept whatever results I get with what I feel is an appropriate amount of time spent on a shot.  Perhaps that's because most are candid shots of the kids where you only get one shot.  The amount or frequency of post processing I put into my shots has gone down over time, but there are still plenty of times I don't get it right.  I blame those damn CFL lights for throwing white balance off all the time.

When I sell stuff, I don't put too much effort into it.  It depends on the item.  When we sold a car, I put a ton of effort into detailing the car, then properly framing shots in good light.  For things selling for about $100, I might throw out a white sheet and shoot with a flash attached.  For $50 or less, items are generally shot where they lay.

Offline sixty

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« Reply #6 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 11:04:46 »
CS5 comes in such a pretty packaging in the US? Ours came in a lame paper case which folds open like a pyramid.

Offline chimera15

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« Reply #7 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 11:12:26 »
I found assembling a lightbox/tent helped my photos immensely on ones I actually try to make look good.  You can assemble one yourself pretty cheaply.

Usually I just drop a keyboard or whatever on my bed and photo it though, and don't care. lol
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white with rubber damper(cream)+clicky springs: 2x modified siig minitouch kb1903 1x modified siig minitouch kb1948
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white real simplified: 1x unitek k-258
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black: ultra mini wrist keyboard hack
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Offline Maytan

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« Reply #8 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 12:38:32 »
Oh snap, I have that flashlight.

Offline grilkip

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« Reply #9 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 12:46:12 »
I made a 1 m3 lightbox, thing is, I can't move it out of the room that it's in, or do anything else besides take photos there.
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Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #10 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 14:58:24 »
Quote from: ripster;297097
Well......Ansel never said it was easy....
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If you're aspiring to by Ansel maybe see if you can find a deal on ebay for, say a Tachihara 4x5"?  Ansel used 4x5"s at least part of the time.  I've seen guys up in the mountains carrying around cameras like these around.  Of course you'll also need a good scanner to digitize the resulting photographs.

Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #11 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 15:02:47 »
Quote from: ripster;297097
Well......Ansel never said it was easy....
Show Image

If you're aspiring to be Ansel maybe see if you can find a deal on ebay for, say a Tachihara 4x5"?  Ansel used 4x5"s at least part of the time.  I've seen guys up in the mountains carrying around cameras like these around.  Of course you'll also need a good scanner to digitize the resulting photographs.

Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #12 on: Fri, 18 February 2011, 19:27:22 »
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I just like the ads.

This ad is good not because it is HD, it's because it's different.

Shouldn't Bill Gates be in there? :wink: