Wood and Bone

[Rapture]

Some pics I took on full manual mode, which I'm pretty inexperienced with. Unfortunately, they looked better on the camera display than blown up. I'll have to keep some things in mind next time.

http://orig03.deviantart.net/bc6d/f/2017/015/3/b/wood_and_bone_by_sevas_tra-davlfvb.png

http://pre08.deviantart.net/6737/th/pre/f/2017/015/6/0/wood_and_bone_2_by_sevas_tra-davlgj4.png

[Phillydubs]

Very nice... Is that going in a tank??

[rickztahone]

Unfortunately I cannot see the pictures here at work. Will try to remember to check back on this at home.

[Discus-n00b]

They look a bit dark/underexposed to me but would otherwise seem fine. What was the lighting here, natural or artificial? Manual is definitely a learning process coming from auto everything, just need to get a hang of the exposure triangle and how the settings plays with everything else.

[Rapture]

Very nice... Is that going in a tank??

Thanks, the wood was purchased for a nano contest that my aquarium club is holding. Unfortunately, it's not going to fit in a standard 10 gallon like I planned. So... I may use the wood, I may use the skull, I may use neither... I have no idea at this point, haha.

[Rapture]

Unfortunately I cannot see the pictures here at work. Will try to remember to check back on this at home.

Should I let them host on the forum as a general rule?

[Rapture]

They look a bit dark/underexposed to me but would otherwise seem fine. What was the lighting here, natural or artificial? Manual is definitely a learning process coming from auto everything, just need to get a hang of the exposure triangle and how the settings plays with everything else.

Yes, I wanted them to be kind of dark... they looked very nice on the LCD screen on the camera, sharp with nice colors, but once in photoshop I could tell how blurry they were, and the colors were a little different as well. Using a tripod may have fixed the blur, but I think next time I will just shoot them a little brighter than I like on the LCD and then use photoshop to mess with brightness and colors. The lighting was just a ceiling fan, and a fish tank on one side of the room. It took me a while to get close to what I wanted in manual, but I got the hang of it somewhat for that shoot. Still life is nice for trial and error.

[brewmaster15]

I love taking pics of old bones and fossils.. Love the textures and patterns. Those pics look very good. I think you could post process them into something really nice.

al

[Rapture]

Thanks, Al. It's pretty blurry any larger than it is now. I'm not very experienced with post processing. I have photoshop for digital art but don't know much about using it for photos.

[brewmaster15]

Thanks, Al. It's pretty blurry any larger than it is now. I'm not very experienced with post processing. I have photoshop for digital art but don't know much about using it for photos.

Not promising anything here but if you want to email me the originals ,brewmaster15@comcast.net. I could try some post processing on it for you...give you an idea of what can be done.
Al