FLYMPH FORUM

Background test






I am kinda liking the middle back ground best.
I bought some 24X18 in. sheets of foam from the Craft Store for .88 cents a piece and glued them on the nazis (wifes) tupperware container. Yep, thats looking better

I like the bottom two the best. Great lighting and exposure. Download Google Picasa photo editor (free) and you can crop them down to show close ups. Really crisp shots. I think you have it dialed in nicely.

She's gonna be so happy

If anything happens, it was nice knowing you...

(humor)

Just tell her you owe her one, and as long as you owe her, she'll never be broke.

DUBBN, Howdy;

Welllllll, if I coulda gone fishin' I prob'ly wouldn'ta thought of doing it nat ...uh Honey (smiley withe toe drawing curves in the dirt with head hung low)

Just trying ta be helpful...

hank

My observation has been that background color can significantly affect the way your camera "sees" the colors in the object in front of it. For example, at least on my monitor, the green background in your photos makes the peacock herl look more green, but the hackle less brown than it appears with the blue backgrounds. Having three or four background colors to choose from would seem to be the best way to go, but an off-white works well for me with virtually any fly pattern. I've also noticed that changes in light intensity and direction do interesting things to colors and textures, so I move things around a bit (both the light I use and the vise with the fly in it) while I'm taking a series of photos. Also, I sometimes change the "lighter/darker" setting on the camera -- something I think equates to changing the aperature size?

Thanks for the tip . It is funny to me, I wanted to take pics of my patterns only to convey over the internet what I am trying to accomplish with my flys. Thanks to you and other members of this forum, I have been able to make some good strides in my photography skills. You are spot on with your observation about different background colors picking up different colors on my patterns. I tryed to send this pattern with the Green background to Ray last night, but the pics were very blurry. Just a change to the Blue, and the pic was much better.

So Wayne, does she know yet? How much trouble did you get into any way?

One thing this forum has done is help me to become more familiar with my camera. Who'da thunk? I was just too lazy, oops I mean busy before. One sure has to step it up to survive here!



Vicki

Wayne, this is really getting there. I'll add the same .02 cents that I've said before, (please skip it if you just rolled your eyes ). It's always a personal preference and everyone is looking for something different in a posted pic, and god knows I don't need to hear Willowhead say he finds these kinds of pics boring and clinical, , BUT I find it easier to compare flies to each other when they have the same background and lighting (which actually has to be adjusted to achieve a "consistent" effect).

Bill is spot on in regards to the way your camera will interpret the view based on your background and will make adjustments to the resulting image. It seems to anyway. I also find that when you use a green background and have green in the pattern, the color actually becomes lost, rather than accentuated. The green on green actually is reduced to a value difference or a silhouette. White or light hackle visually disappears against a light background and dark materials loose their relative strength when placed against a dark or black background. Gray on gray, tan on tan are weakened. If any part of the flies composition is negated, then the fly you're presenting is much less effective - visually/graphically/digitally. IMHO, and to each their own, etc.

I say too much, and it's not like everyone and their mom doesn't know my thoughts on this topic, but you asked. And I'm learning a lot about your flies, especially with your new set up. Good for you. Rule of thumb at my house (more unsolicited advice), never keep all your gear in the same place. The impact, domestically, is much less severe if the toys are not all in view at once. And it's harder to pin down exactly what you do and don't have, unless she's just cool and you can tell her everything up front, in which case...you need more stuff.