Culina delivery

[burneyr]

Looked for a nice pre 27 for at least eight months. Finally scored one in June, and it was wearing a set of incorrect era diamond targets. I've seen a lot of beautiful red hue grips lately - so I called Jennifer Culina. No cocobolo at the moment but she suggested padauk. Put in my order and waited.

These arrived in the mail today, and I'm really liking it. Going to get another set of targets in this wood.

Maybe one day I'll figure out how to take better pics-

 

[Truckman]

Maybe one day I'll figure out how to take better pics-

There's nothing wrong with those pics, and the only thing wrong with the gun is it's not at home with me......Ben

 

[JohnRippert]

I always use mismatched grips as a reason to call the Culinas. One of these days I need to get all my revolvers out that have their grips and make a "family" photo.

 

[rct269]

I was going to say---------------------

If/when you learn how to take better pictures, they're not going to be a whole lot better!

I'm just guessing now, but lose what appears to be a direct light source----for openers---and see what's what.

Ralph Tremaine

 

[Claymore33]

Beautiful gun and grips . Almost looks like my new Mesquite grips. Mesquite is a little more orange. The Culinas are working on a big block of mesquite I sent them from my ranch. Hoping to get 2 sets of Targets from them for mod 29 and 57.

 

[quinn]

Most excellent times 3 (gun, grips & photography). The pre 27 is simply stunning!

 

[Baxter6551]

Great gun. Beautiful grips ! The photos are great - the only thing is I think the mat somewhat detracts from the view of the gun. IMHO a plain surface to highlight the gun would be better.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Awesome color choice and grips. The Culinas are great folk and meticulous with the hands. Have a collection from them never mounted on a gun before.
Actually get great satisfaction enjoying the grips. Maybe one day I'll find a gun worthy of them.

 

[CH4]

Hard to make a 3.5" 357 magnum look more sexy, but Culina and bigmtnman can do it.

 

[mikepriwer]

As Ralph noted, direct light is the first enemy in taking pictures. Too much light causes the glare. I find that natural light, from a window, gives satisfactory results, if the gun is moved back and out of the direct sunlight.

A problem I've had, for a long time, was not paying attention to the glare, when taking pictures. I have a Google Pixel 3 cell phone, and on the camera screen, it has a light slide that allows more or less light to come into the camera. I use that first, to find the setting that has minimum glare, but sufficient detail of the gun.

White is the most reflective of all the color. The white embedded in the gun mat is causing uneven-ness in the color of the gun, as is the white in the end of the rod supporting the gun. It's also distracting. The background lighting should be even.

Also, there are too many different objects in the picture, at different focal lengths. Try taking everything out of the picture except the gun, with maybe a light blue background, or possibly a dull white background.

Regards, Mike Priwer

 

[rct269]

Mike's mention of "a dull white background" jarred my memory banks into action. If you'll go back to a thread dated 2/15/18, titled A KING SUPER TARGET TRIPLE LOCK. There you'll see three pictures---one of which has "a dull white background" (the other two with a piece of old barn wood (gray) as a background).

For reasons known only to folks who know about cameras/lighting/backgrounds and one thing and another, the dull white background made for a picture which pretty much EXACTLY illustrated the colors of the gun as they are-----------and those folks don't include me; since it's been something on the order of 50+ years since I took a picture of anything---and I've forgotten almost all of that!! All I now know about taking pictures of guns (especially shiny guns) is NO DIRECT LIGHTING!!----probably should say NO DIRECT LIGHT SOURCE!! These three pictures were taken with their respective backgrounds, outside---------in the shade----and damned if it didn't work!!

I hear tell the use of a "light box" (which serves to diffuse the lighting used) is the hot set-up-----and is very likely what folks like Mr. Garner (RKmesa) uses for some/most of his crappy pictures----any and all of which will knock your socks off!!

Ralph Tremaine