Good work. But since you asked, here are a couple of suggestions/opinions:
It appears that your camera’s depth of field was not deep enough to retain the entire image thickness in focus. Notice the slight fuzziness on the left side of the specimen. Were you using any telephoto aspects of your camera. The more you zoom, the thinner the plane of focus.
The background is nice, but the harsh shadow parallel to the specimen’s right edge is somewhat distracting. When there are near misses with lines and intersections, the mind wonders if something else is going on. An old saying is that the picture includes the frame.
The lighting is still a little harsh, especially on the steely edges of the thumbprints. Maybe soften the photofloods through bounce and turn off the on-camera flash.
Personally, I think the specimen looks a little better if you rotate it 135 degrees clockwise. Just my opinion.
Finally, the pink background does add highlight to some of the internal regions of the thumbprints, but I think it actually accentuates the harsh nature of the iron rather than softening it. But maybe that is your desired effect?
Do you spend this amount of time taking pictures of your daughter? I go through a couple of rolls and a few hundred digital shots a week on my family, but I’m lucky to get a single scan or shot of a meteorite per week.
Nice job. Will we get to see more?
Cheers,
Martin
On 2/17/02 7:39 PM, "Walter Branch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I have started taking an interest in attempting "nice" photos of the meteorites in my collection and I was doing some experimenting yesterday with a 600+ gram sikhote-alin. Here is what I think is the best image:
http://www.branchmeteorites.com/temp/DSCF00111.JPG
Some on the list have done some amazing photography and I was wondering if some of you photo experts would take a look and give me some advice on lighting, background, positioning, etc. For this image, I used the flash on the digitial camera and two high intensity photofloods on either side of the specimen. Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
-Walter
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Walter Branch, Ph.D.
Branch Meteorites
322 Stephenson Ave., Suite B
Savannah, GA 31405 USA
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