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 Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:28 am
No problem biggrin I work in video a lot and white balance is super important there. You don't want any weird color shifts marking each time you cut to a different shot.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:38 am
Hmm... I'll give the white balance a shot, even for just regular photography class. I'm hoping it works just as well on human subjects.
The DoF is also important to use as well if you want high quality shots. Take Joey of Mistula for example. She uses the camera's focus expertly. You can really tell if you check out her photos of Mistula. I'm using the traditional SLR (Vivitar or Pentax usually) currently, so transferring photos digitally would be a pain since computers hate me. However, if anybody needs a good website to go to for tutorial, I'm sure I can give you guys a few URLs.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:43 am
Aa~ These tutorials are nice! I totally never though of getting one of those trifold poster boards and draping fabric over it for a backdrop. Now I just need a desk at a good height to put it on. x3 Then I'll just need to find a tripod that actually fits our digital cam gonk or maybe tie it down on the one we have xD;
For those clamp lamps, what's the best type of lightbulb to use? I've tried using just a regular one, but it makes the photos very yellow.. and nothing on my camera will fix that no matter how I set it. gonk Not even the white balance.. (It's not that great of a camera, but I can't afford anything else, esp not the Digital SLR that I really want ;A; ) Any help would be appreciated! :3
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:53 am
LATE REPLY!
For my pictures I use Reveal bulbs but I don't know if they actually make any difference. I alternate between 45, 75 (or was it 70?) and 100 watt depending on what color fabric I'm using as a background.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:36 am
I took an art photography class in high school and I don't know how I ever took pictures before I knew the basics sweatdrop You don't have to take a class like I did, there are lots of books out there and even tutorials online (if you want to go really cheap) that you can read just to learn the basic elements of photography. Once you learn these a lot of the mistakes you made in the past will make sense to you. ^.^ A few tutorials I found Basic Elements of PhotographyExposure
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:34 pm
SLR Tips Okay, this may be very basic info. but I might as well add it anyway.
When using a tradition SLR, be sure to use 400 speed film indoors with good lighting, and using 125 speed film outside (in general cases.) Also, check to make sure the ISO matches up the film speed. Understanding shutter speed is also very key to not messing up light exposures.
Then again... do any of you use traditional SLRs to take pictures of your dolls here? Personally, I prefer them since there are somethings that even digis and photoshop can't recreate. It is less convenient and very expensive these days, but yeah, just throwing it out there as a tip reminder for those who do work with them. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:49 am
I use a digital. X3 I might use my 35mm, but it eats my film.
I have one tip, and this is really applicable to new doll owner's pictures. For the LOVE. OF ALL THAT IS HOLY. Tilt your doll's chin DOWN. Most humans do not generally look down their noses at people. Escpecially to the point where we can see thier nostril hairs. Or whatever. Tilt 'em down.
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:10 am
Kiry I use a digital. X3 I might use my 35mm, but it eats my film.
I have one tip, and this is really applicable to new doll owner's pictures. For the LOVE. OF ALL THAT IS HOLY. Tilt your doll's chin DOWN. Most humans do not generally look down their noses at people. Escpecially to the point where we can see thier nostril hairs. Or whatever. Tilt 'em down.
QFE'ing this to the maximum. The opposite also applies. Don't take photos from a bird's eye view. We'd like to actually -see- their face. :[
But I also must add: TURN YOUR DAMN FLASH OFF.
Nothing looks worse than doll photos taken with flash. Well, except up-nose doll photos taken with flash. gonk
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:31 pm
Now that I have my camera back, I've realized that it doesn't have ANY of these features mentioned like my other camera did. No macro, no tungston, no physical zoom, nothing! I loved my old camera's Mountain setting for indoor pictures and now I can't do it. My new camera doesn't seem to be phazed by indoor light as much as my old one, so pictures aren't nearly as yellow, but I'm going to try some of the other tips and stuff that doesn't involve my camera specifically (except for getting a tripod).
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:39 am
I'll have to edit with some of these tips and stuff, and YES perhaps I should show the difference between flash pictures and flash free pictures.
What I'm currently "wtf"ing over is taking pictures of pale dolls outside. Yan is beauty white and Kitten is just pale and both of them practically glow when they're outside.
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:12 am
The Clone Tool in Photoshop The clone tool is probably the most awesome tool in photoshop in my opinion. I know there's an equivalent of it in GIMP and I'm assuming there's on in paintshop but for those you're on your own I'm afraid. This is just a mini photoshop tutorial detailing how to get rid of little things like unwanted stray hairs. Yaaaay! I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS if that means anything to anyone. Sooo to begin. Select the Clone Tool and then select your brush size. I have pictures for these but alas behind that you're picture free as far as this tutorial goes.  Clone tool.  Brush size. My advice is to zoom in on what you're wanting to get rid of and then select the brush size that works best. I usually use 3, 5 or 9. So we've got our picture, it's zoomed in all big on whatever we want to get rid of and we've got our clone tool selected. What you want to do is pick an area next to the offending hair, hold down ALT (your circle will turn into a little crosshair) and click. Now let go of ALT and wherever you click will look like what you just selected. You might need to fiddle around with this to pick the area that looks best for you. You will need to change your selection from time to time as you follow along the hair of course. The one over Kishi's eye was fun since I had to cover not only his pale skin but the red and black areas of his eye. It was still pretty darn simple though. This is something I wish I'd learned a lot earlier! And if you have any questions let me know. Unfortunately I couldn't take screenshots of the mouse pointer so I couldn't get actual pictures of me doing it. Booo.
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 12:26 am
And Paying in Naivety I'll have to edit with some of these tips and stuff, and YES perhaps I should show the difference between flash pictures and flash free pictures. If you have a way that shows how to take good indoor pics with flash I want to know. crying I hate using the flash, and when I have to it takes forever to try and correct in PS. And Paying in Naivety What I'm currently "wtf"ing over is taking pictures of pale dolls outside. Yan is beauty white and Kitten is just pale and both of them practically glow when they're outside. The same thing happens to Erebos. You can fix it by adjusting the levels in photoshop. Click on the 'Image' option and then to the 'Adjustments' menu. You can select 'auto levels' where the program will regulate the levels where it sees fit or you can select 'levels' and adjust the sliders darker or lighter. What I've noticed for outdoor photos, selecting the Auto normally doesn't do too much, you'll probably have to manually adjust them. Levels also helps photos taken with flash. Manually play with the Levels and the Contrast/Brightness a little and see what you get, I suggest doing the Levels first to tone down brightness. Contrast/Brightness brings out more of the color. This photo was taken with a digital Nikon d70, auto setting, no flash. This is the raw image, only resized... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/Anatole/Erebos/Hanbright.jpg...after adjusting just the levels, moving the black slider toward the middle to get rid of the washed-out look. This is where I stopped for this image; the color was just bright enough that the pink in the flowers were nice and bright and his complexion looked as natrual as possible. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/Anatole/Erebos/Han12.jpgThis one is the second image with some Contrast/Brightness adjustments to show what they can do. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/Anatole/Erebos/Han12F.jpgAnother option is, depending on the camera, is to use a diffuser when working in bright light. For my Nikon, it's another lens with a dark looking filter that screws on over the main lens. It does exactly what it says, it diffuses the bright light. I'm sure that if you type in the model of your camera into Google and 'diffuser' or 'diffuser lens' you'll get something. I don't have any examples, but once the weather brightens up again I'll go and take a few.
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:15 pm
Another thing you can do when photographing outside to prevent the crazy glow, hold an umbrella or a large peice of semi-transpartent paper over the top of the doll out of the picture. This creates a little bit of shade, depending on how close to your doll you hold it, and will help stop so much glow.
This kind of thing also works when trying to get light under a doll's face if they are too shadowed. Instead, put a mirror or aluminum foil under the doll at an angle that will reflect light upwords.
It's still a good idea to ajust brightness/contrast in editing.
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:11 pm
For anyone interested in a relatively cheap reflector there's one at Best Buy for $20. It also works as a difuser which I find nice.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:49 am
Oh clone tool, I loveth thee. I'm just too lazy to shop out extra hairs most of the time, but damn does that thing work wonders. I've actually seen people use those car heat reflectors in photography (the dull ones, not the super shiny ones). I'm not sure how much cheaper they run, but just puttin' that out there. Edit: Quote: What I'm currently "wtf"ing over is taking pictures of pale dolls outside. Yan is beauty white and Kitten is just pale and both of them practically glow when they're outside. I think it might have something to do with certain types of resin. ALL of my AR dolls glow like a lightbulb when I take photos of them. Even my goddamn tan doll. My CH (which I believe Kitten is?) also glows really badly. Seen here:  It was so bright that I actually think I had my settings so that my light meter was telling me that it was too dark to photograph properly, and he still came out washed out and glowing. I don't really have this problem with my dolls from other companies though, so I really think it's just certain companies and the type of resin they use.
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