[TheForge] Re: Photographing your work

Thu Jun 5 06:11:01 2003

Phlip.  A very good digital camera that I recommend to any and all is the
Canon G3.  It can be used as a point and shoot camera of one can use its
very professional features and get incredible results. You can even hook it
up to a laptop and control all the camera features from the laptop and your
computer screen becomes the camera screen, so you really see what you are
doing.  It has pretty well the best battery life of any camera out there and
the brightest LCD screen works very well outside in bright light, unlike a
lot of them. The other great feature of the screen is that it flips out from
the camera body and will rotate so you can get shooting angles that are very
difficult or impossible with cameras that have the screen fixed on the back.

In the spring issue 2002 of the Hammer's Blow, I did an article on how to
photograph your ironwork.  This was showing techniques to get very nice
results without having to spend a lot of money on lighting equipment, using
both daylight and tungston lighting.  Brian Gilbert also showed a home made
device he uses to get good lighting results. Not sure of the issue, but it
was around the same time.

The industry standard software is "Adobe Photoshop". It is quite expensive
(like more than the camera) but the software that comes with the camera will
more than satisfy you to start.

Best of luck and oh yea, I like reading your stuff too.

Harry Foster
Rusty Dog Forge
http://pages.infinit.net/rustydog/home.htm

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:48 PM
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Subject: [TheForge] Re: Photographing your work

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Phlip ... have you seen the ridiculously low prices on decent digital
> cameras these days?  Several years ago I bought my Kodak DC120 mega-pixel
> at a 'steal' of around $400.  Yesterday I was in K-mart and Wal-Mart and
> took a quick look at their digital cameras ... multi-mega-pixel, 2 or 3 or
> more optical zoom plus digital zoom, etc.... and in the neighborhood of
> $140-$175.  If all you want a digital camera for is to upload to your
> computer or to the internet, then you don't even need to go up to the
> mega-pixel size.

Yeah, I know, but at the moment, even $20-$30 is a strain on my finances ;-)
Things are improving, but I'm basicly being supported by some friends as I
work to take over my own expenses, and restart my life- Hey, Life Happens
;-)

However, I'd be very interested in hearing from you guys, about the utility
of various cameras and imaging systems. I've been accomplishing quite a bit
lately- my travelling forge set-up, some of my smithing work, some of my
student's work- and I'd like to share it, but at the moment, as I had
mentioned, I lack the capacity.

So, I'll ask_

What's YOUR choice of camera- function vs cost?

Do you have a computer program that coordinates with your camera, to give
you the best possible images? If so, what is it?

Are there any tricks of lighting and arrangement that give you the best
possible images to display your work? If so, what are they?

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

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