[meteorite-list] Shooting Pictures of Meteorites??

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:45:13 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <8D10B68CA834CB0-2A14-304B1_at_webmail-d136.sysops.aol.com>

This is getting repetitious!
I also use a Nikon, a big fat one, and natural daylight, in front of a
south facing window. No flash, a slightly hazy day is best. And as
little photo editing as possible.
I want my pictures to be "true", not improved. It would be too easy to
make a Tatahouine look greener than it really is.


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com>
To: Jim Wooddell <jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net>
Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 7:56 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Shooting Pictures of Meteorites??


Hi Jim,

Good topic :-)

I use a Nikon DSLR and macro lens mostly or a Fujifilm bridge camera.
For me though it's not about the camera but the lighting. Although i
like shooting in daylight i tend to use artificial lighting to be able
to easily reproduce my results. I use a pop up light tent which is
basically a white fabric cube with one face of the cube open to shoot
through. I then use a fibre optic light with intensity control as a
single source light. Prior to this i used a single lightbulb with
similar results :-)

Works well for me :-)

Cheers

Martin

On 11 March 2014 13:45, Jim Wooddell <jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net>
wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> So, I have a cheapy 12mp Nikon CoolPix camera and can take some
decent macro
> pictures of small objects. I use a homemade poor
> man's light box, made from a cardboard box and crumpled aluminum foil
and a
> light. This combo works well for me with the exception of
> some wide angle issues because of the limitations of the camera.
> My Son, Dusty, has thousands upon thousands of dollars of Nikon high
end
> camera gear and can take shots that make my low end stuff look
> really bad! Instead of a light box, which he is not use to and does
not
> like, he uses a tripod and a huge light ring that his camera shoots
thru
> with radio controlled flash.
>
> So, I am curious and would like to know what you folks are using for
your
> pictures??? I sure see some fantastic pictures.
>
> Jim
>
> -- Jim Wooddell
> jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net
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