Mini Photo studio

[Buckeye]

Decided to use photoshop on all photos and keep the box without any additional lighting.
It is compact and easy to use.
Here is my photoshopped version of the trustone
View attachment 10778
Much clearer, my thanks to everyone , my presentation has improved thanks to you guys

That is much nicer

Peter

 

[donwatson]

That's a great pen and a great photo. Very well done, :bravo::bravo:
There's a good deal I have learned in this thread.

 

[Jim]

A decent price to pay for better images for sure ..

 

[stevenw1963]

That is much nicer

Peter

got to agree, much better

 

[wm460]

Good looking unit, I belive Les uses a fluro for his photography.

 

[Walter]

Looks like a useful and cheap system but,although I have a light tent, it is far too much faff to set up and take down each time so most of the time I just use a couple of lights and a sheet of white paper on a flat surface (in this case my saw bench):


DSCF1074 by walter.hall, on Flickr

 

[Winemaker]

Not into photography I just use my old Kodak compact so that very nice unit would not help me

 

[Walter]

Not into photography I just use my old Kodak compact so that very nice unit would not help me

Well,it might actually. Good lighting will make a difference whatever camera (or phone) you use.

 

[Les ELm]

Mark is correct.
Never found a need for photo boxes or fancy lighting.
I just use a background appropriate for the subject color, my shop overhead daylight florescent lights and a tripod.
Set up camera for background, lighting and subject.
IMHO, it works great for me.

Les

 

[stevenw1963]

What Canon is that Walter?
Just got a Canon 60D I'm trying to get to grips with.

 

[Walter]

What Canon is that Walter?
Just got a Canon 60D I'm trying to get to grips with.

Nothing fancy, just a 450D. How do you like the 60D?

 

[Walter]

I just use a background appropriate for the subject color, my shop overhead daylight florescent lights and a tripod.
Set up camera for background, lighting and subject.
IMHO, it works great for me.

Les

To a certain extent I would agree Les, but the lighting in my workshop is just not good enough.

 

[Penpal]

Johnny I have an old Fuji Finepix S6022. I set the camera on P use Autofocus all the time use the rear rh knob to get the best aperture with the higher F stop stopping at a reasonable speed setting in the viewfinder then using the small arrow button next to the firing pin take shots varing the setting through the viewfinder all my pics of pens are done that way, works for me.

I admire the use of incredible software but I use only a free program for all my pics library and number of pixels to 800 as well from taking to showing is very quick,simple and effective.

Sample enclosed. My lighting open box conduit basic frame to support the top light and background paper.I use Picassa 3.

Kind regards Peter.