Rell
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I am about to list 6-7 rifles for sale on GunBroker.com. I've sold stuff before but my photos are always terrible.
I could use some pointers on prepping rifles for hoots and how to actually take a decent photo of a rifle.
1. Angle
2. Lighting
3. Background color
Any pointers would be appreciated.
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NitroX
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For the forums I like natural light and using an interesting background such as a zebra skin or other animal skin.
I'm not all that good at it myself. Need to learn the skills and get appropriate lighting.
For an advert I would use a plain background to highlight the gun better. Use several lights to remove shadowing. Use a tripod if you have one to take precise focussed clear photos.
Modern LED lighting gives pretty white light so avoids the yellowing of older lighting systems. Use of a flash will also help take out some shadowing. May cause reflections though. Good photographic lighting often uses diffuser screens to remove reflections.
Offset the firearms on a flat surface using a dowel or similar to place the firearm in a better perspective.
Hopefully some of the guys here can chime in.
Curl has many good photos on his website so hopefully will contribute some ideas.
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chapmen
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A good thing is to take them outdoor at good weather: (Canon EOS 650D, automatic programm without flash)
or indoor with daylight: (also the same settings, without flash, on tripod )
this ones are made with three studioflashes: ( 1/100 sec., f 22 , iso 100 )
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CptCurl
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Two approaches make all the difference in the world.
1) Use soft light. Indirect natural light is ideal. Before I had any kind of light setup this is what I did. My bedroom has west-facing windows, and I would do my photography in the late morning before any direct light would come in.
Using this method there's never enough light, so you must help things along with your camera settings. Your camera will want to open the aperture to the max. That won't work. Your focus will have no appreciable depth of field and will be so shallow that parts of the gun will be in focus and parts out of focus. You need a smaller aperture to get more depth of field.
2) Set your camera on a tripod. Use the timer delay to trip the shutter. You don't want to be touching anything when the shutter trips. Go to manual settings and set your aperture to f16 or thereabouts. Your camera will compute that your shutter speed will be something like 1/8 to 1/4 second. Not to worry. Nothing is going to move during this exposure. You can get wonderful photos using this method.
Your camera doesn't have to be a big dollar machine.
And finally, you don't want to use a flash.
One thing good about it, you can keep trying and it costs nothing.
Hope this helps.
Curl
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DarylS
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Quote:
A good thing is to take them outdoor at good weather: (Canon EOS 650D, automatic programm without flash)
or indoor with daylight: (also the same settings, without flash, on tripod )
The rifle on the right has the same butt stock my 9x62 had when I bought it - Oberndorf - except mine wasn't checkered, if memory serves.
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