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Why does it look like this?
PvtMutt
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Posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 06:09 AM UTC
This was sprayed with flat black car primer.



I used two,true color lights..
Photo box has white sides with a light blue backdrop.
A Kodak C643 digi cam,no flash.

Very nice rusty look but it's supposed to be black??????

...Tony....
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 06:11 AM UTC
Is your whaite balance set? Is there some setting that triels to lighten a very dark color?
PvtMutt
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Posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 06:50 AM UTC
AJ,you're the second one to say it might be the white bal.

I'll check it out in the morning,

Thanks
..Tony..



Tarok
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Posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 04:42 PM UTC
Are your lights shining directly at the model? Or are they reflected off the sides of your booth?

Also, are you using the auto-focus "point and shoot" type setting? I find when I use those settings the pale grey resin of figures comes out yellowish... I customised the setting and fiddled the aperture (?) and the F-stop (?) settings and I seem to get a more "realistic" picture. After that I rely on my software...

HTH

Rudi
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Posted: Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 01:51 PM UTC
It is a combination of being over exposed by about 1 stop, and the white balance is wrong.
PvtMutt
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Posted: Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 02:35 AM UTC
The white balance was wrong and I don't think
I can control the lens setting.
I also don't believe my lighting wattage is high enough
too.

Thanks everybody.
....Tony....
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