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Author Topic: Photoghraphing Lightsabers is difficult!  (Read 3844 times)
Kalibos
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« on: July 09, 2011, 09:35:50 PM »
 





damn photographing these sabers is hard, getting the lighting right is a pain but I think I have sussed it!
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« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2011, 09:40:05 PM »
how so? you managed to take a good picture of your prophecy. Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2011, 09:41:33 PM »
I always turn off the flash to help the true color.  What sort of problems did you have?  Cause like Boss said, it looks good!
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2011, 09:45:45 PM »
One of my sidelines is photography (weddings etc) I am a semi proffessional. These were some of the most difficult photos i have taken in ages (most of the day in fact and a lot of trail and error lol!)

Main problem i had was trying to keep the blade colour true to life, with a light as bright as these any colour in the light tends to bleach out ending up with just a white blade. So I used a time delay and messed around with iso settings and the biggest help was using my other prophecy to light the area above or below the saber i was photographing.

EDIT: by Big Boss try not to double post there is a modify button  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2011, 10:01:38 PM »
Good idea, I was wondering how you managed to capture the colors so clearly on camera most of the time i just focus on capturing the hilt and not so much the colors themselves but you did a great job.  Smiley
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2011, 10:10:06 PM »
My apologies!  Those are some great pics and I'm with Big Boss I tend to go for just looking at the hilt.  Otherwise I black the room out but that rarely works.  I'll try the things you mentioned in the future though I don't have the equipment to really make that work.  Cheers again!
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« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2011, 10:18:30 PM »
Thanks guys, red was the hardest as it nearly always comes out orange, I'm relying more on the red glow that i captured to emphazise the red colour around the emmiter.
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