Origami Owl (perched)

[Loose Canon]

Probably going to be ostracized by the bird folks for that title!

These charms in the locket or so small I can barely even read them with the naked eye! Much less the Origami Owl logo! I had to use tweezers to handle them!

Can’t believe I didn’t lose all of them!

I am now cross-eyed!

100mm f/2.8 macro @ 1/125 and f/22

[Digital]

Cross eyed or not, it is a good photo.



Bruce

[Loose Canon]

Thank you Bruce.

I wanted to get it in flight but it never left its roost!

By the way? How did you make out in the Epic Snowstorm?

[Stagecoach]

Nicely shot Terry, those shiny surfaces are sure hard to work with.

Grahame

[Shadowman]

Nice.

[IzzieK]

Terry -- very nice. Is Origami Owl the brand name of the company? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the family theme inside the locket. The framing is excellent too.

[Mike Buckley]

Fabulous shadows!

Lousy thread title. I almost missed your thread.

You surely had to remove a reflection of the camera from somewhere in the image. Where was it?

Did you have to do any focus stacking?

Is the tabletop the new watercolor paper?

those shiny surfaces are sure hard to work with.

Especially when they're curved as in this case.

[Downrigger]

Obviously very well done - admirable result.
I have some jiggity-jaggeties on the fine dark shadow lines on the charm and on the clip. Is that my screen (Mac retina, so doubt) or tinypics or the manner in which the image was exported, or a diffraction effect at f22? It would be good to sort that out. Does anyone else see it?

[Mike Buckley]

I see what might be jiggity-jaggeties but the image is too small for me to be sure.

[Downrigger]

I've looked at it a few more times - it's almost like moire' on my screen. I'm only attending to this because it pertains to our obvious interest in fidelity in shared images.

[Loose Canon]

Nicely shot Terry, those shiny surfaces are sure hard to work with.

Grahame

Thank you Grahame and you got that right! The other day I shot a pair of scruffy old leather hiking boots just to shoot something that had no reflective surfaces at all! It was a joy!

Nice.

Thank you John.

Terry -- very nice. Is Origami Owl the brand name of the company? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the family theme inside the locket. The framing is excellent too.

Yes Isabel that is manufacturer I believe. Thank you for commenting.

Fabulous shadows!

Lousy thread title. I almost missed your thread.

You surely had to remove a reflection of the camera from somewhere in the image. Where was it?

Did you have to do any focus stacking?

Is the tabletop the new watercolor paper?

Thank you Mike.

Sorry about the title. I didn't think Origami Chicken would work!

I didn't have any camera reflection to remove at all. I tried to stay out of the Family of Angles yet keeping the sensor plane as parallel as possible. Which is a segue to the next one.

No focus stacking but I am considering the fact that I may have to go that route in the future. Well, there's really no doubt that I eventually will. Sufficient DoF is one reason I am nuking these stopped down so much but I'm not going to get away with that for long!

Yes the textured white. Nice stuff. I am finding that the textured black is subject to color change due to finger print oils so be careful handling it if you go with the black.

Obviously very well done - admirable result.
I have some jiggity-jaggeties on the fine dark shadow lines on the charm and on the clip. Is that my screen (Mac retina, so doubt) or tinypics or the manner in which the image was exported, or a diffraction effect at f22? It would be good to sort that out. Does anyone else see it?

Thank you Mark.

I'm not sure what you are seeing. These pieces sometimes take an insane amount of processing just to clean them up. When I have to shoot them in a close up macro scenario its way worse. I missed some of the clean up when I posted this simply because I was getting fuzzy and my eyes glazed over looking at it! Burned up two clone stamps and my healing brush!

So I suppose it could be possible that you are seeing some of that. Also, sometimes I have found that when I post things here with small spaces and a lot of contrast I see those jiggity-jaggeties as well. I'm not ruling out anything but the moire artifacts are not there viewing the .psd or .jpg in Photoshop.

[Digital]

Thank you Bruce.

I wanted to get it in flight but it never left its roost!

By the way? How did you make out in the Epic Snowstorm?

Like a bandit. The day after, when everyone was snowed in, I hopped in my 4-wheel drive truck, and got a carryout pizza.
Thanks for asking.


Bruce

[Mike Buckley]

I just noticed that the bottom of the pendant is reflecting the texture in the paper. Does that make the metal itself look textured and will your client care?

It's good to know that I'm not the only one who has to clean up stuff in post-processing.

I looked at Michaels and they also have none of the grey watercolor paper. However, they have a normal watercolor texture and one in white that is more heavily textured. Probably because it's manufactured in a factory that was established in 1492 and doesn't have the high-tech stuff that makes smoother paper. The heavily textured one might be interesting. I'll let you know.

[Loose Canon]

Great to hear Bruce. The news video looked pretty horrific around the Atl. area on that clogged Interstate. Nothing like a good pie to help weather the storm!

I think the reflection makes the metal look kind of different Mike. To answer your question I don’t know if it would make any difference to my Clients of not. It would make a difference to me. My “obsessive streak” (a Client’s words!) wouldn’t allow me to accept it straight off. I’d have to see what could be done if anything. Then maybe explore it further in post. Its going to reflect something no matter and I don’t know if you could get, say, a white card close enough to make a difference without getting it into the frame. These are just some tests to see how this stuff may behave under the lights- no Client involved (yet).

[Mike Buckley]

I agree that the reflection in the metal looks nice. I'm just imagining that perhaps the client might think the reflection makes the metal appear textured even though it's not, once your client actually provides the subject of course.