Technic Photography

[MaxSupercars]

Looks good... :)

Looking forward for review... ;)

Max...

[miguev]

How about some night street photography for the Dark Ride?

[Virani]

Today's purchases

[syclone]

Here is one mine of the Outdoor Challenger:

Edited August 25, 2015 by LXF
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[rm8]

note for moderator: This is photography thread. My pictures are the same size as other big pictures in this thread. Exmaple is in the top of this page.

Edited August 27, 2015 by rm8
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[syclone]

That wheels look great on the Benz

[nerdsforprez]

New Arocs with lights.......

[JJ2]

Here is my picture

*cough*teaser*cough*

Edited August 26, 2015 by JJ2

[MacKaiwer]

I don't have a really good digital camera but I like that tip to shoot outdoor photos very much... This photo I am kind of pleased...

I think I will shoot lot more Technic Lego photos outdoor in the future

[Victor Imaginator]

Today, when i preparing photos for my last MOC i found that it's almost impossible to shoot model nice, when most parts are red. Parts looks almost flat. What i'm doing wrong?

[BusterHaus]

Can you post an example of the results, Victor? A picture is worth a thousand words.

[Victor Imaginator]

Upper shot - is the original, lower - with heavy ajusted curves and color balance. While adjusting curves reveal many details of black parts, red stays like flat for me( I seen same effect before, when shooting some red flowers outdoor. It is possible that LEGO red is out of RGB space of my camera?

[MaxSupercars]

What do you mean with "flat for you"... if you adjust curves you make the shades and blacks more brighter... and while black is the darkest color there got you the most effect... what do you want to make with red? More shining? Like by saturation change?

Max...

Edited August 27, 2015 by MaxSupercars

[Victor Imaginator]

I can't understand what is wrong with this red) It looks not real, like clamped somehow.

[MundaneBob]

I don't see any problem with the reds. Are you viewing on a badly calibrated IPS monitor?

[oracid]

Put your monitor perpendicular of your eyes direction.

[Victor Imaginator]

Two monitors with various angles, one is near perfect calibrated... It must something with my eyes(

[Jeroen Ottens]

What kind of light did you use? It could be that your lightsource is missing the red tones? Ever since the bulbs have been banned most LED/energy saving lamps are quite monochromatic and blueish, I suppose (but maybe some physicist can confirm) that that will make red more dull.

[Victor Imaginator]

Jeroen, you are right - it's lightsource. For previous photo i used energy saving warm lamp. With daylight same model looks much better in my opinion. And here is a clear difference between red and trans-orange parts. I have warm LED lamp, should try it too.

[Jonsson]

Here are a couple of my photos. I use natural sunlight while shooting mostly indoors on a bench covered with glass. At the moment my equipment consists of an old Nikon D300 with an 17-50mm 2.8 lens from Tamron.Scrambler07 by Stephan Jonsson, on Flickr

Frenzy02 by Stephan Jonsson, on Flickr

moonshine_rocket08 by Stephan Jonsson, on Flickr

Kawasaki KZ400 Tracker by Stephan Jonsson, on Flickr

Blue Angel 09 by Stephan Jonsson, on Flickr

W427 Hard Tail Bobber a.k.a Widowmaker by Stephan Jonsson, on Flickr

Aphäng05 by Stephan Jonsson, on Flickr

Fred_unlim02 by Stephan Jonsson, on Flickr

Edited August 28, 2015 by Jonsson

[chrisanseti]

took this pic when I was testing the crawler on my back garden

[BusterHaus]

Jeroen, you are right - it's lightsource. For previous photo i used energy saving warm lamp. With daylight same model looks much better in my opinion. And here is a clear difference between red and trans-orange parts. I have warm LED lamp, should try it too.

Hi Victor,

If your camera has a manual mode, I highly suggest trying it out. You can set your own white balance, control the over/under exposure and set many other options. Try playing with those two at first and looking at the results. Here are some suggestions about the first (non-adjusted) picture you took:

• The picture is much too yellow, as shown by the "white" background. This can be controlled by adjusting the white balance. Look for a Tungsten or regular (non LED/CFL) bulb setting.
  
• The blacks (tires, bottom of vehicle) look like they could use some more definition. You can overexpose the picture a bit and see if that helps. It will also overexpose your background, making it whiter. Don't go too far, because overexposing washes out colours, making them less vibrant. Some of this can be corrected with saturation in the post process.
  
• Be careful with the post process. If you have a source picture that requires a lot of adjustments, it is easy to overcorrect some areas when fixing others. For example, while making the background white, you can make the blacks gray and non-natural looking. You managed to avoid this, but having played with your source picture here, I can't imagine it was easy. So the better the source picture, the less adjustments, the better the results.
  
• Finally, try to step back from your result picture for and see how it looks on its own, not compared to what you started with. Your result has a much cleaner background, but could use a little bit less magenta/blue. This is noticeable on the gray IR receiver, exhaust tips, bottom of the picture where the shadow is located, and the roof panel. This can be adjusted in Gimp by playing with the saturation of specific colours in Hue-Saturation.
  

[Victor Imaginator]

BusterHaus, thanks for tips. I just forgot about white balance while shooting, my fault) I tryed to make any post process simple as possible - in this case this was Curves adjustments by three points - white, 50% gray and 25% gray, followed by adding magenta to reds. But all magenta/blue tones come from window daylight) I have very complex lighting setup, some kind of mess, yes)))

[SevenStuds]

Some really good photos here!

I was experimenting with taking night shots of my last small-scale build, and this one shot came as a nice surprise. It had a 10 second exposure, and while the shutter was open, I swung a green EL wire in the background. The most difficult part was getting the manual focus right since I only relied on the lighting from a few led's. The idea was to use a light painting technique in near complete darkness. The final result is almost un-Photoshopped, besides the text overlay and very slight brightness/contrast adjustment.

[MajklSpajkl]

Wow SevenStuds, just amazing!!!