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<p>[QUOTE="Ezlisting, post: 1344, member: 99"]Well, so okay I photograph a lot of glass. A lot of folks like to use the outdoors, but dealing in ABP I had to learn to take technical vs beautiful backgrounds. I think one of the biggest tip that I can give you when you are doing clear glass is when you are tweaking it with your built-in photo editor on your computer is to adjust more on the contrast and saturation should be almost to none (close to a black and white photo)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's some examples:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]153[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is with a light box that lights from the bottom. You can tell that I made the contrast high with no saturation.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]155[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is simply a black cloth with a light from above. Tweaked the saturation so the colors would be more vibrant.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]156[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here I used just the lights from the bottom with no over head lighting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think if you just keep experimenting you'll find what works for you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ezlisting, post: 1344, member: 99"]Well, so okay I photograph a lot of glass. A lot of folks like to use the outdoors, but dealing in ABP I had to learn to take technical vs beautiful backgrounds. I think one of the biggest tip that I can give you when you are doing clear glass is when you are tweaking it with your built-in photo editor on your computer is to adjust more on the contrast and saturation should be almost to none (close to a black and white photo) Here's some examples: [ATTACH=full]153[/ATTACH] This is with a light box that lights from the bottom. You can tell that I made the contrast high with no saturation. [ATTACH=full]155[/ATTACH] This is simply a black cloth with a light from above. Tweaked the saturation so the colors would be more vibrant. [ATTACH=full]156[/ATTACH] Here I used just the lights from the bottom with no over head lighting. I think if you just keep experimenting you'll find what works for you.[/QUOTE]
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