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©2008-2009 =Zilchius
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It's his first run, and he's worried.
He's got no thumbs, and he was in a hurry.
But if he takes this time to look and study,
Soon he'll shoot better than anybody.
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Long setup on this one... I got the idea from trying to take a stock photo of just film, when I remembered this little guy. So I sat him in the lightbox, took a couple shots, found that it was hard to move things around with the flaps in the way, so I had to cut those off. Then I noticed the shots had dust on them, so I had to take my camera all apart and clean it up (hair and dirt on the sensor ><;).

From there on it went something like, shoot, adjust position, white balance, items, shoot, adjust.... etc etc. Until eventually I had everything lined up as good as possible. Much different from my normal shoot, edit in PS until it's what I want. ;)

Then came the post production, clean up the creases in the paper that I couldn't get out, and get that white balance dead on (Kelvin in camera got close, but not where I wanted it). And played about with curves, levels, and whatnot.

Anyhow, I'm going to grab a few different angles and setups on this shot before I tear it all down, but this was the idea, and so this is the shot I HAD to get. :)

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:iconkuenai:
It's a very cute picture, it somehow reminds me of the Pixar desk lamp ;P. very well executed, i especially like the reflection coming from the magnifying glass.

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Many of life's failures are those who didn't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

-Thomas Edison
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I sort of had that idea when shooting it, I wanted to put eyes on it... ;)

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Thanks, made me realize that my lightbox isn't nearly as nice as yours, and it needs to be bigger. ;)

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:iconpsychoroll:
I like the triangle composition.

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Ignorance will prevail, such things will end in bullshit
:iconforgotten0ne:
Very Cool, I'm surprised that our light box fit all of that! I really like the setup, as to how you are trying to not just take a picture of one thing, but of many things.

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他忘れられていた1 つがあるただ場合もある。
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Didn't even realize it... ;)

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Yeah, it was tight. But it's all about a scene rather than an object, right?

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:iconpsgeek716:
I would still keep the one you have. From what I've heard you should always use a properly sized light tent. Basically, you don't need a 6 ft x 6 ft box for a soda can. Then again, I'm no expert by far.

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May 15, 2008, 12:25:40 AM

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