Light Tent

[Kaine]

Got myself a light tent

I think i might need a little more powerful lights hitting the tent, but looking good so far

 

[airhead]

A little more light would help. One way of accomplishing this is a darker background. Your camera is averaging the bright white background and the subject - resulting in an underexposed subject.
Photoshop can help only so much:

 

[Kaine]

so use something like blue gradient card ?

 

[demonherald]

where abouts in Leeds are you Khaine??? I may have a set of 3 halogen photography lights. will check this weekend see if my dad still has them... if he does you can have em...

 

[airhead]

Originally posted by Kaine

so use something like blue gradient card ?

or a photo shop should have a 30% gray card.
Or a piece of black velvet or gray velvet
Or I can send you a pdf of a gradient - blue/white fade.

 

[Kaine]

Originally posted by demonherald
where abouts in Leeds are you Khaine??? I may have a set of 3 halogen photography lights. will check this weekend see if my dad still has them... if he does you can have em...

I\'m in churwell (in the new development just before you go up churwell hill towards Morley).

If you did have them spare i\'d feel obliged to offer you something for them But i\'m sure my garage full of GW stuff will contain something your after.

 

[demonherald]

I\'m in lovely Beeston so not far way really... will check tomorrow and drop you a pm .. as far as trade it\'s really no worries and as ex staff I\'m pretty set for GW bits:beer:

 

[War Griffon]

Kaine one of your problems might be how your camera is metering for the shot.
If it takes its light reading from multiple areas then changing it to one specific area i.e. centre spot metering might help you a lot as well as changing the background colour.

 

[Einion]

Kaine, how\'s this?

On the basic photo, more light would help but you can just adjust the exposure by switching to manual mode and increasing the shutter speed, or by using an exposure adjustment of 1 or 2 EVs.

On your lighting, you appear to have a mixed setup - a lamp with bluer light to the left, or light coming from a window? You\'ll find it a lot easier if you use the same bulbs from both sides. After that you can set a custom white point if your camera allows, which means you\'ll have to adjust for an overall colour cast much less or not at all.

Originally posted by Aliengod3
Most screens are set at 800 X 600 pixels.

1024 x 768!

I think 800 x 600 is below what even most laptops are shipped with these days unless they have very small screens.

Einion