Photography help please

[NorCalBottleHunter]

We found our "day" lights at lowes, worked great, I will have to ask my friend what type of material he used to cover the box

 

[cc6pack]

lobe

It's the program that came with AOL (photo impression). All I did was darken/lighten the pic and use the contrast as needed, along with cropping the pic and adjusting the size. I use an old 35mm slide preview/sorter that I picked up at a yard sale years ago and converted it to a back light. You can still see the horizontal lines, If I have time I can even get those out if I go back and change the angle of the camera.

If you wondering I use a Nikon coolpix 2500, 2.0 mega pix, that I bought in 2002 if I remember correctly. I still like to use natural light outside when possible, but I can get acceptable pics to me with the back light. I can't remember if I used that pic in an auction, it was the first one I found when I went looking for an example, I go look for a better one that I did use.

Here's one I did use in an auction.

 

[madpaddla]

Here is the light bulb I use. I got it at Home Depot for about $12 I think. If anyone needs to see the other side I would be glad to help.

 

[marjorie040]

I'm back with two pictures to demonstrate my efforts at photographing my bottles....here's the first one....of the lightbox. I thought it was the perfect shape and very sturdy so I got out the ole Xacto and cut it out. The lining is a cotton sheet. The top comes off for more overhead lighting.

 

[marjorie040]

Madpaddla,

Look! what a difference the right bulb makes!!

Thanks for the help!

 

[marjorie040]

OOpps! Now I'll work on resizing!!

 

[cc6pack]

Nice job[]

 

[NorCalBottleHunter]

awesome, great job

 

[madpaddla]

Ohhhh WoW Marjorie....very well done. You must be so pleased. What a difference. Hard to believe huh? How much was the bulb?

Very glad to help ya out. Which bulb did ya get and where?
Madpaddla

 

[Stardust]

Hey madpaddla, nice pic of you looking out of your digging hole. []