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Old 03-03-2016, 12:54 AM
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Thanx to all of you for posting - great info - in my case much needed info. I just started taking pics of guns (and knives) and these hints will be a big help. Hope to have something worthy of posting some time soon. Thanx again.
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We have many excellent photographers posting on this site. An indoor setup gives you great control, but I don't have one and just use an outdoor setting. The angle I like to see is with the rear of the open cylinder reflecting off of that nice finish, whether blue or nickel. I call it the "money shot".
Here's a Model 25-5 in nickel.

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It took quite a bit of time for that series of pics... I probably took a good 75 shots just to get 1 good one.

It worked best with semi-autos with the magazines removed. The smoke is real, I used 12" incense sticks and 1/2" copper tubing in the magazine well. Smoke naturally rises and with no air circulation you just sit back and start shooting til you think you got the shot you want.
I "fanned" the smoke a few times to create the swirls.

The background is black tarpaper (also fireproof! ). I used 2 small photo lights to light both the gun and the smoke.

It was fun and interesting ... I had to air the room out for a day or so afterwards to get rid of the aroma!
I'm glad you explained that. I was wondering how in the heck you did it. Amazing photos you created!
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My Zebra Finches had babies a couple weeks ago. Not a great pic but it's fairly detailed. They like to sit in this dish together, probably in the same positions they resided in while in the nest. Dish is about 5" across. 5 little beaks 10 beady eyes.



I'm not very good. I like taking pics to describe problems. Take them at high megropixils, then blow them up and cut problem area out of pic. This was how I felt FN compacts were wreaking mag followers. The verdict is still out.
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I'm cheap, just use a light-colored towell//for rifles/and an original WWII German machine gun troops recruiting poster, and for handguns, light colored cloth with skillfully tossed ammo all over it. Sorry no pix, my tablet refuses me to post em.
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Here's an inexpensive light box, made from materials found at most big-box hardware stores.

The frame is a wheeled off-brand Metro kitchen unit, lights are $4 clamp-lights filled with 5000k led bulbs. Notice that they are almost the same color as the light streaming in from outdoors.
A dollar-store extension cord and a Goodwill twin sheet sewn as a cover/diffuser finishes off the kit.

Use your imagination for backgrounds, and binder clips to hold them in-place.

A word of warning - if you have cats, they will think you are making them a house/cave/play pad.

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I'm too lazy to much setup. I just take about 10 pics of the same guns, pick out the best one and screw around with paint shop till it at least looks acceptable.

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Good pictures start with..........

Good lighting
and get better with............
timed exposures, bouncing flash off of walls or ceilings, colored lenses, tripods, mechanical shutter releases and even the angle of the surface areas to the lens.

I really miss my old 35mm that was king in the day but the digital cameras are now the thing, for better or worse.
Will there ever be a B&W picture, ever again ??

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