Question 'bout LIGHTING

I dont know anything about that other flash. Its certainly not going to use the internal exposure system of your camera, you might be able to set your camera up to use it manually.

Just curious if you have read the stickies first in this area of the forum. I highly recommend it. They will answer quite a few questions.

OK, so here's a sample pic that would be used on a webpage...

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Rockrz wrote in post #8212332
OK, so here's a sample pic that would be used on a webpage...

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Doesn't this look like it needs more lighting from the
left side to brighten this up a little more?

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gonzogolf wrote in post #8212376
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You lost me...are you saying you cannot see the picture I posted?
I can see it just fine...

I dont see any image or link to an image on the forum.

I can surely see the image. I am not sure if you need any other lighting on the side.
Also try and read this thread: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=281524

Mufutau

Rockrz wrote in post #8212420
You lost me...are you saying you cannot see the picture I posted?
I can see it just fine...

mufutau55 wrote in post #8212577
I am not sure if you need any other lighting on the side

Maybe it's just personal taste, but this eeems to be needing more
light to me. the terminal itself seems like it's too dark.

So, I guess I need to get my act together and buld a light box.

I'll read through that thread to see what kind of fabric is needed
and what kind of light bulbs are needed.

Building the frame itself shouldn't be a big problem at all.
Thanks for all the replies...

Now that I can see the photo, I dont think the lighting needs to be changed. It just needs a little post processing in photoshop to adjust the levels, contrast, and sharpness.

Well, I seeing that I may need to break down and buy
some good software to processing images. I've never
used photoshop. I've been using Photo Impact (by Ulead)
but to be honest I don't know much about it other than
normal newbie functions.

If most folks here are using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
then maybe that's what I oughtta get so I can at least
get help learning how to use it.

Just google lightroom tutorial there will be tons of youtube videos showing you how to do various things.

If you want to learn about how to light products, I suggest some DVDs from Dean Collins who was the paramount leader in understanding how to light subjects and control light.

When something is black, you have to bring out shape through reflective surfaces, not artificially increasing exposure since proper exposure of black is about 3-4 stops below 0 or 18% gray.

Excellent, thanx. Nothin like learning from someone who
has experience and the ability to teach

gonzogolf wrote in post #8217081
Just google lightroom tutorial there will be tons of youtube videos showing you how to do various things.

This is nice, but learning why to do certain things vs. just doing them is much better. I suggest purchase books on color correction from Dan Margulis and read, read, read.

Knowing why you want to make a certain edit is more important than the photo editing itself, else you frankly never know when you are done, or how to get to where you think you are going.

Underscore wrote in post #8225096
....else you frankly never know when you are done, or how to get to where you think you are going.

I find most anything I do that is creative, I never seem to be happy with it.
Always feeling like some other tweak would make it better...but that's
probably just me not ever being satisfied. Sometimes when you aren't
sure of what to do next you just have to go with "decent" until to get
more experience and work under your belt in any endevor.

I do agree though that knowing why something is done is key to doing
things effectively to accomplish best results