Thread: Photography and Straight Razors

The link hoglahoo put up is also a great read for a little more in depth info of product/razor/etc type photography. Some good info from Tierdaen and very quick and easy.

I am sure some have linked to this or other versions of it in the past. But it has a particular usefulness in the realm of making razor porn!

Making a Light Tent

The nice thing about this is that you are pretty easily able to set a strong white point (it is better to use middle gray to do this but you can use white and atleast get decent color). Just fill the frame of your camera with the background in your box, shoot at an optimum exposure for the light you are using and select that photo when prompted by your manual white point setting.

As richardhead was kind enough to point out, a shroud can make a big difference in the out come of your photo too by helping your shiny blade reflect something white. (For more on that see tierdaen's post that Hoglahoo linked to earlier. Thanks again Lee!)

Hope this helps someone!

Originally Posted by sicboater

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Hope this helps someone!

I love pictorial tutorials like that. Thanks! If it was explained any clearer I'd think I was being spoonfed

Some great stuff here. I started a thread a while back on this subject that took off nicely: http://straightrazorpalace.com/general/9521 This thread has added some good new info, particularly the software tricks.

One point I made in the earlier thread that I wanted to reiterate: To flatter the proportions of your razor, back up and zoom in. Getting in close distorts the razor's lines. Shooting from three or four feet back and zooming in to fill the frame will make the whole thing look more natural.

Josh

Here's another neat light box, the second link is an animated (with narration) version of the same light box.

http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/kmckevin...p/lightbox.swf

Just another option.

J.

could someone make sure this is in the wiki please

Originally Posted by Doc

could someone make sure this is in the wiki please

Thanks Doc, good suggestion. I'm working on it.

Here's the wiki I threw together. Let me know if anyone would like to see anything else:
Lightbox Instructional - Straight Razor Place Wiki

Thanks to: Richardhead and Dhatcher for their contributions.

Originally Posted by Doc

could someone make sure this is in the wiki please

Bjørn has kindly taken care of that already.

Any road, if anyone wants a thread or posting added to the Wiki, the best way to ensure that it actually ends up there is to follow the suggestions in http://straightrazorpalace.com/rules...-srp-wiki.html