Stradawhovious
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I put the camera cown for several months due to rekindled interest in a different hobby. That tends to happen to me from time to time, but I always come back to it.
The good news is that this recent purchase enticed me to bring my camera out of the bag. The bad news is I didn't get any better during the hiatus.
Back story (skip to the * if you don't care) I frequent a lot of garage sales, and always ask if they have any old camera equipment or firearms. This guy had a revolver squirreled away for the last 30 years or so..... no longer wanted it..... but didn't know how to legally get rid of it. Long story short, after a long conversation about local laws he decided to part with it.
It was issued to a local County Jailor, and had his name and the issuing county on one side, and the city name "Minneapolis" on the other. It's obviolusly seen quite a lot of use, and I'm thrilled to have such a nice piece of local history on display in my home.
* My intent with this photograph was to get all of the wear and history to "pop" out on this revolver. In my experience with photographing firearms it is difficult (for me anyways) to get the subtle differences between white steel (where the bluing has worn off) bluing and rust to be easily distinguished without blosint out parts of the metal.
My approach was to shoot this through a 50mm 1.8 @ f/5.6, have a SB600 through an 18" umbrella at 1/4 power almost right on top of the piece from the right and a piece of wihte typing paper boucing light from the left. This is all sitting on my coffee table as a background. Any way advice as to how to get this acheived better wold be great.
Any C&C or comments are welcome unless you are just going to turn this into a whine fest about how much you hate guns. If you don't like the subject matter, please either just comment on the technique, or visit another thread. Thanks!
The good news is that this recent purchase enticed me to bring my camera out of the bag. The bad news is I didn't get any better during the hiatus.
Back story (skip to the * if you don't care) I frequent a lot of garage sales, and always ask if they have any old camera equipment or firearms. This guy had a revolver squirreled away for the last 30 years or so..... no longer wanted it..... but didn't know how to legally get rid of it. Long story short, after a long conversation about local laws he decided to part with it.
It was issued to a local County Jailor, and had his name and the issuing county on one side, and the city name "Minneapolis" on the other. It's obviolusly seen quite a lot of use, and I'm thrilled to have such a nice piece of local history on display in my home.
* My intent with this photograph was to get all of the wear and history to "pop" out on this revolver. In my experience with photographing firearms it is difficult (for me anyways) to get the subtle differences between white steel (where the bluing has worn off) bluing and rust to be easily distinguished without blosint out parts of the metal.
My approach was to shoot this through a 50mm 1.8 @ f/5.6, have a SB600 through an 18" umbrella at 1/4 power almost right on top of the piece from the right and a piece of wihte typing paper boucing light from the left. This is all sitting on my coffee table as a background. Any way advice as to how to get this acheived better wold be great.
Any C&C or comments are welcome unless you are just going to turn this into a whine fest about how much you hate guns. If you don't like the subject matter, please either just comment on the technique, or visit another thread. Thanks!
