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Lighting IS everything - egg color
crystalcreek:
Ann,
THANK YOU so much for posting those pics!!!! I have the hardest time taking pics of these eggs!!!! And I have a great camera but still can\'t ever get it right. I take 20 pictures to show just how green/gray mine are, trying to be accurate. I have pics that show them bluer than they actually look in person, but won\'t use them because I don\'t think they are accurate. That was seriously enlightening, especially the marans eggs alongside. Thank you!
Birch Run Farm:
Now Crystal, you are my favorite photographer, at least you have talent with chicks! I think your eggs pictured look very good. The camera will balance the color better (I think) if you put them in a darker container and keep the brown carpet behind them.
I\'ll also add that on my computer at work which has a much bigger screen than my Dell laptop, these photos all look much better. The color tones are nicer, overall.
Beth C:
--- Quote from: Birch Run Farm ---Now Crystal, you are my favorite photographer
--- End quote ---
I second that - if you weren\'t so far away, I would seriously pay you to take ad photos!
crystalcreek:
I\'m blushing! Get those chicks while they\'re very young. If you take them fresh out of the incubator, they\'re still sticky and not fluffed up. Better to wait one day. Too old and they definately won\'t cooperate. If you take a white background (I use an artificial piece of fleece) you can tape it to the wall behind a table and make a 90 degree angle and cover the table top too, just like at the photo studio where you take your kids (and grandkids, since I have a mixed audience ;) ). When you plop that chick up there, he\'s going to freeze for 2 seconds because he\'s in a new environment. Be ready! If you do more than one at a time, you have to plop them up there all at the same time and take advantage of that 2 second freeze. I take 50 pics for one shot, seriously.....the wonder of digital. But I don\'t own a photoshopping program and nothing I do is adjusted for color or anything, just cropped with Paint down to the subject because they do move all over the place. I like white for my lavs. I would imagine black velvet would be stunning for some of the varieties y\'all have. I even can do them indoors with decent success because unlike horses, dogs, cats, and people, you don\'t get red and green eye with the in camera flash. Hope this helps.
Birch Run Farm:
I\'d need to get a shutter button and put the camera on a tripod because all I get are blurry \'ghost\' chicks. They run as soon as I set them down. And poop too! :(
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