Knife Photography

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Comment by Rusty R Halsey on January 14, 2012 at 12:20pm

I discovered how to use exposure lock and focus lock this morning.  Then, with those set, I used a colored led flashlight on the background.  I secured a piece of shower curtain over the flashlight with a rubberband to make a soft (diffused) light source!

Comment by Billy Oneale on January 8, 2012 at 9:46pm

It did make some interesting effects. I was going to take some pics today, but I ended up watching Denver win today instead of knife pictures.

Comment by Rusty R Halsey on January 8, 2012 at 7:27pm

Boredom led to more experimenting today.  I hid a led flashlight behind a block off to the side in my light box and shone it on objects behind the knife.  I think this could produce some exciting effects if a person took the time to play with it.

Comment by Steve"Hog"Hanner on October 20, 2011 at 12:57pm

Rusty, I can see the blade jigging quite clearly and looks great. Just preference I guess the large marble really gives some scale. Overall the lighting is quite good. I'll try the shower curtain idea, myself. Always struggle with light and seems like (on rare occasions)when I get it right things really do show up better.

Comment by Rusty R Halsey on October 1, 2011 at 6:50pm

An Experiment:  I picked up a "new" old knife today and wanted a photo that showed off the blade etch, the tang stamp and the jigging in the dark bone handle.  I used the same setup and method throughout, changing only the background.  I use a light tent (made from a shower curtain) with overhead fluorescent lights, a Canon A1200 Power Shot ($108 point & shoot) on a tripod.  I have 3 choices of exposure method - over all scene, center of scene and what is in the little box.  I chose to use what the box was on.  I took 3 or 4 shots with each background moving the box around a little and kept the best picture for each backgroung.  The box usually had about 1/3 full of dark handle, a little of the shiny bolster and the rest was the blade tang.  My first attempt with the white background was disappointing, so I threw some black lace over the white felt and used a large dark marble for a prop.  These turned out better.  Then I tried a smaller clear marble for a prop, with just a little difference in the pics.  The lace pictures gave the better exposure for both blade etch and handle jigging, but the lace itself is a little distracting.  Maybe some grey felt would work as well?

Comment by Gus Marsh on September 1, 2011 at 10:09am

I loaned out my Nikon Cool Pix S610 to my foreign exchange students from China. They used it for about 2 weeks and now it will not focus when I press the start up button. Does anyone know a reliable camera store in Southern California that can fix this camera.

Comment by Gus Marsh on August 12, 2011 at 12:30am

I use a Nikon Cool Pix S610 as a carry along camera. For serious work I use a  Nikon D-90. Both cameras have positive and negative aspects.

Comment by Craig T. (max) McGruder on October 28, 2010 at 7:44pm

Wow Scott sounds like a cool camera ,they do that wi fi ,I had no idea man I better get off this pc and get back in the real world .
Your I phone cant zoom ,move your hand closer :)

Comment by Terry Waldele on May 18, 2010 at 12:23am

Dale S.,
Sounds like that would be within my budget. I'll give it a try. THANKS!

Comment by Dale Shawgo on May 17, 2010 at 10:21pm

A good place to start your lighting would be a similar setup to the lightbox featured at the top of the page.
The diffuser can be made out of translucent shower curtain (Approximately $1.00 @ The Dollar store) and 2 Halogen work lights (found at Lowe's, Home Depot, etc)

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