Carl Finch on fri 30 apr 04
At 08:59 PM 4/30/2004 -0400, Simona Drentea wrote:
>I just got a new 5 megapixel digital camera & the photos are spectacular
>quality! They are so good that I am concerned that if I put them up on my
>yet-to-be-created website, they may be considered false
>advertising. Apparently, my
>pottery looks even better than I realize. I just took a photo of a bowl & it
>looks gorgeous, lots of little nuances & colors, that I don't even see when I
>look at it, b/c sitting in my house, it's not perfectly lit.
>Also, I know people will ask, so the camera info: Kodak EasyShare DX4530.
Ahh, that could be your "problem!"
Kodak is famous (notorious?) for highly (overly?)
saturated colors in both their film
and now in their digital cameras.
And especially greens.
My 4-year old Kodak DC90 (digital) does likewise.
For more realism you might just try reducing
the saturation a bit in the camera (if it has that feature)
or in your image processing software.
--Carl
in Medford, Oregon
Simona Drentea on fri 30 apr 04
Yes, this is a real problem. Or not, that's why I'm asking the community. I
just got a new 5 megapixel digital camera & the photos are spectacular
quality! They are so good that I am concerned that if I put them up on my
yet-to-be-created website, they may be considered false advertising. Apparently, my
pottery looks even better than I realize. I just took a photo of a bowl & it
looks gorgeous, lots of little nuances & colors, that I don't even see when I
look at it, b/c sitting in my house, it's not perfectly lit. Also, I'm not
doing any fancy lighting for the photos, just trying to get diffused natural
light.
I do raku, so I'm dealing w/lots of shiny images & many color nuances. I'm
concerned that people may buy a piece & then be disappointed or even upset that
it doesn't look like that in real life. BTW, even when I select the software
option to compress the files to "best size for web", which is hugely
compressed, the pictures still look better than the actual pottery in real life light.
I am wishing my pottery looked this good just being displayed in my own
house.
I'm not trying to do photos for galleries or museums, just an accurate
portrayal of my pieces for website & brochure purposes. Does anyone have thoughts
on this? Should I just take the pictures in average light? Put a disclaimer
on the website indicating that these are optimum lighting photos?
Also, I know people will ask, so the camera info: Kodak EasyShare DX4530. I
love almost everything about this reasonably priced camera & the EasyShare
sware. Though I used to be a computer programmer, I don't think you should have
to be one to USE software & this is some of the easiest to use software I've
seen & it seems to provide the basic functionality that most people will use.
Simona in very cold, not sunny today Colorado
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