March 27th, 2009 by Kris
Use a 3d Model, you know like Apple does. Fine, I’ll tell. Play the angle. Remeber that angle of reflection equals angle of incident, right? You didn’t pay attention in physics either, did you? Well simply put, we’re bouncing light off a colored surface into the mirrored finish to “fake” the black box. Well, here’s the setup and the last photo is the final result of 2 of the setups. The final shots are right out of the camera, I used lightroom to crop and exports, but that’s it. Check it out and email me if you’ve got any questions! Good luck.
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March 5th, 2009 by Kris
2 Week Drought – Time to talk some shop! I know you’ve been missing me. I do apologize and promise to not let that happen anytime again soon.
Work over at cabedge, has pretty much been kicking me in the rear. It’s been good to be too busy for a while – let’s us relish the time we’ve got to ourselves, right? Anyway, let’s talk about what we’ve been doing.
We have a client that we’ve made some really unbleviable images for down in Columbia, I know many have seen the IDC Hero Images so if you haven’t they are over on my Flickr page and the first image that pops up on my site are from that series. Anyway, I bring this up because we’ve had to “help” with some client provided imagery to finish up the project. They build hanger and blast doors all over the world and most are for the US military – so the contractors on the jobs usually do the photography. Now, I’ve got to “fix” these client provided images. Well, I won’t bore you with too many gritty details but lets walk though “retouching” a decent image that just has some image quality issues.
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