Gang, this might have been covered before, but I got a kick out of this. I frequent the Clubhouse alot too, on Saturday, for some reason the forum was down there so I looked at some of the other stuff on the site and found a link to site about taking photos. Here is the link

Taking Photos

Anyway, I had already made myself a cheap photo tent out of foam core and pillow cases. I had used the photo tent to take the shots of my first sculpt. Anyway I was not happy with the photo's from the tent and was getting ready to ditch it until I found this article. Now, I am really happy with my $10 photo tent. Here is a before and after shot (after reading the article that is). This is the same photo just following what he said. If anyone is interested, I will post a picture of my cheap photo tent.




Tor

Thanks for the link Tor,yes post a picture of your tent,I'm interested too.
Good sculpting of your bust too What scale is it ?
georges

I have to be honest, and say I prefer the original. Although I like the background, I feel you may have gone too far with the levels and bleached out something of the original - it looks to my eyes now over - exposed. Just my opinion though

But thanks for the link

Georges - Thanks for the comments, the bust is a practice piece done at 1/5 scale. I will post a pic of the photo tent for you, it might be a couple of days.

Rob - yes it is a little too bleached out, guess I messed with the contrast a little too much. Still, I not going to dicth the tent now.

Tor

I think the tent is fine - it just looks like the processing on the PC may be overcooked

Tor, I'd like to see it.~Gary

BTW, you can get the oven I over-cooked the photo in for free. It is an application called PhotoPlus by Serif. It is a Photoshop type of application. Serif is pretty cool, they give away their earlier versions of the software for free when they upgrade to a new version.

PhotoPlus for free


Tor

Tor, Thanks for the link to Photo plus, may have to just try it out.~Gary

No problem. Can't beat the price......

As promised here is a pic of my cheap foam core and pillow case light tent. I basically made a box out of foam core, cut out that sides and attached a cheap white billow case to the sides. The white garbage bag is used to cover the front and goes over the camera. I use two of the cheap clamp on lights from home depot with 100 watt lights. You can see one of the lights upper left of photo.



I got the idea from this article.

Light Tent article

Tor

Thanks for the photo and the link Tor
May try to do my own too those days ...
georges