Microstock - its apples and oranges
Discussion
Ive fixed the dent, removed the tape measure (which was held in place behind ye olde apple with a giant paperclip) and thanks to tesco salad, one of the apples has green leaves 
Unbeknownst to you all, its thanks to my steadily improving photoshop skills, a dish rag and my grungy holey ol' boxer shorts that the highlights are not blown. I used my trusty old boxers plus the rag to obscure half of the rectangle highlight that the soft box was making. Any brown highlights are purely coincidental.
Cripes, Ive just realised... I didnt wash the apple which I ate half of afterwards, and the only bottle I could find to spray on the water droplets was stain remover (which has nothing to do with my boxers I hasten to add).
gurgle.yack.choke... no no its ok, fear not, Im alive and shall live to post about microstock another day. Luckily for everyone
Unbeknownst to you all, its thanks to my steadily improving photoshop skills, a dish rag and my grungy holey ol' boxer shorts that the highlights are not blown. I used my trusty old boxers plus the rag to obscure half of the rectangle highlight that the soft box was making. Any brown highlights are purely coincidental.
Cripes, Ive just realised... I didnt wash the apple which I ate half of afterwards, and the only bottle I could find to spray on the water droplets was stain remover (which has nothing to do with my boxers I hasten to add).
gurgle.yack.choke... no no its ok, fear not, Im alive and shall live to post about microstock another day. Luckily for everyone
The leaves make it look like a tomato IMHO... and would the first pic's shadow not being wholly contained in the pic be a problem for purchasers?
Just my amateur thoughts
ETS - I enjoy you're microstock posts Bob: nice food for thought!
Just my amateur thoughts
ETS - I enjoy you're microstock posts Bob: nice food for thought!
Edited by jason-l on Thursday 23 November 11:25
After 10 mins of looking for the dent I then read 3 posts further down to see you'd fixed it. Thought I was going crazy!!!jason-l said:
The leaves make it look like a tomato IMHO... and would the first pic's shadow not being wholly contained in the pic be a problem for purchasers?
Point taken. I thought the leaves were ok, but I suppose to the trained applehead, they probably look like a terrible wig. jason-l said:
ETS - I enjoy you're microstock posts Bob: nice food for thought!
Cheers. They're not going to go away 
Although for the sake of those who cant stand stock talk, Id be happy to have my conversations of image saleability elsewhere, and stick to posting pics on PH. Oakey said:
We should just rename this forum to "UKBob's Microstock Emporium" 
Ted's a good guy, how about it then, just for a day We'd have to email tony though, it would take him a day to find it 
pdV6 said:
I know nothing about photography but I do know that Bob's food pics usually make me feel peckish!
Cheers SGirl said:
UKBob said:
Still shooting on white, just not inside the tent. Never again!
Why don't you like the tent any more? Not selling it, are you...?
The tent seems to limit the cameras ability to resolve the very detail that the light should be creating.
Prawns inside the tent:
Prawns outside the tent:
Neither shot is great, but first pic (inside the tent) had about twice as much processing, yet it still looks twice as flat.
Outside the tent, colours seem to be much more vivid, alive, and have more shadow, detail and highlights etc.
ps, Im not sure whether I'll need it again, dont know yet, so Im going to hang onto it for now. I got the tent from www.stevesphotoshop.co.uk (90cm i think)
SGirl said:
Mm, I see what you mean. The second prawns shot looks a lot more "real".
In the first prawns shot, the background was grey, the prawns were grey, it looked like there was a grey fog hanging over the meal and took a lot of work to get looking clean. In the second shot, I barely touched the levels, what you see is (roughly) how it came out of the camera.
huuuuuge difference! Do you have studio flash, and what do you want to shoot?
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