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el_gecko
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I vote the JAC way.
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Mixeur
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Windmiller
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:47 pm Post subject: Re: colour of pics |
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| naked1300 wrote: | | Neon_WA wrote: | just starting to experiment with photographing of my chips to pre-empt putting them online.
This is my first pilot trial, so excuse the dust and poor lighting 
In this style of photographs which colouring do you think works best?
I know the best colouring will change with the colour of the chip, but predominately most are black. I will cross that bridge when i get to it
please dont suggest black as that is cpu-galaxy's web style and i want to develop something different |
i am very glad to see that other collectors also like to take the pics of cpus by the same way like i do it the last 2 years. i think the mirror is the best way to show the chip also from the bottom.
i think the grey background is very nice. |
I have always preferred the way you take pics! |
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doccybrown
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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I very like the faded yellow-orange
Christian Bassow uses for his pics
www.cpu-museum.com
This background accentuates the common chip
colors black, white, grey and violet very very well.
My all-time favourite background colors are shown
on Mats Bystrom`s site who uses orange pastel tones
www.cpu-zone.com
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Neon_WA
Joined: 08 Nov 2008
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Location: Margaret River, West Australia
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Cool! Very nice technique.
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the technique works well on white print and engraved, but will have to work on the lighting for metal finish chips.
The "chrome" finish was so so, but the black i960 failed miserably, but still better than than the EmotionEngine cpu out of a PS2 
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donutty
Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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Your pictures seem to be taken on a mirror?
Does that make it more difficult to get good lighting? |
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JAC
Joined: 24 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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Personally I prefer no background. If you remove the background now then you can change it easily in future - the same goes for taking pics/scans of the bottom. Decide what you want now as changing it when you are 200 pictures in is a pain in the ass. Yeah, maybe the graduated background is ok, but again changing it is suckage.
My vote goes to having no background and using CSS to style your website. some websites allow you also to select the css style you most like.
One last thing on taking pictures, if you can get your hands on a reflective material it burns out the background. I have seen it sold on ebay in a box you open up. |
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donutty
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JAC
Joined: 24 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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No, like this...
http://www.sharpics.com/Products/featured.html
"The D-Flector contains a unique reflective background that "illuminates" when photographed with flash. The result is a picture with a white background. Objects appear to be floating-on-air. This is the same effect that is used widely in catalogs, publications, advertising materials and web sites. This effect that was once time-consuming and expensive to achieve, can now be done in minutes. The D-Flector is portable, easy to store, and affordable. Patent pending."
similar to the reflective matrial used on safety clothing. Patent pending my ass.
I have one of these boxes.. its ok and it works.
btw, that pop up tent is about as useless as a chocolate teapot. |
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donutty
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Right, in that case I won't buy one! |
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johnorun
Joined: 04 Apr 2008
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Location: Chicago, IL- US
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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Nice idea! |
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Neon_WA
Joined: 08 Nov 2008
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Location: Margaret River, West Australia
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| donutty wrote: | Your pictures seem to be taken on a mirror?
Does that make it more difficult to get good lighting? |
doesnt seem to cause an issue.
these pics were only taken using natural light coming in from the sides and are "as taken" without a stand and using automatic settings.
but for the difficult chips i will have to sort out proper lighting and maybe play with shutter speeds and f stops so the markings are more visible
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