Recent content by Garry Edwards

Great photos and a fantastic insight into lives that don't interest the media :) Thanks for enlightening me.

Thanks for posting, it's a very striking shot, helped of course by the fluted glass, which is always attractive because it inevitably refracts light as well as reflecting it. Getting "daylight" colour from actual daylight can be a challenge, the so-called daylight colour of 5500k is apparently...

That's great. I was going to get in touch and threaten you suggest that you make a contribution, but now I don't need to:) Anyone else?

Absorbant matt paper and board is sold in art materials shops, much better for photography. Not as good as black flock of genuine black velvet, but much cheaper:) If you can't reduce the flash power any further then you could perhaps fit something over the front to reduce the effective power...

That's a very good example of brightfield lighting, and the absorber boards have made a big difference, Maybe the camera height could have been dead straight, which would have given a bit more definition of the top of the glass, but that's just a matter of personal preference That drink looks...

I think that your camera height is spot-on, you needed it that high to show the depth, and because the subject is wider than it is high,, you haven't ended up with unacceptable perspective distortion. This is a good, very clean example of a very simple arrangement (and yes, I have seen your very...

Welcome to TP and, as explained above, items for sale must be posted in the correct forum, and this is a privilege for established members, so you'll need to make some posts about photography first.

Terrible photo but . . . https://www.probospromotions.com/products/cut-ships-decanter-due-dsh?formtype=requestvisual&srsltid=AfmBOopTrBfl2Id-gt11vLXTOxYGTnvql1IR5q5dRwOgqjeuRNsavpVKBf8

I did exactly the same, but didn't bother to adjust the monitor brightness The black cards would have been more effective if they were much closer Pretty much anything really, my personal preference would be flash, but continuous lighting would be OK. I've used a softbox as the light source...

I agree with all of this, except this bit I've only ever been a hack photographer who was lucky enough to get and keep the right clients, and I was also arrogant enough to charge good money. Any success has been down to hard work rather than ability, it's the same with my hobbies - shooting...

You can shoot a transparent or translucent item, using brightfield lighting, or you can shoot a coffee cup or similar in a different way, showing how you did it. The whole idea really is to encourage people to do something that they wouldn't normally do, and to learn from the process, with the...

How you go about it is of course entirely up to you, I tend to view this type of shot as a product shot, but everyone has their own way of doing things . . . As a product shot, I would keep it as simple as possible,, so wouldn't have a reflective base (which adds psazz but which may be...

A very good effort, but the lighting isn't really balanced. Yes, it does need some "wine" in the glass, but for red wine we normally use dilute fruit drink for that, it saves opening the bottle and also doesn't photograph too dark.

To participate in an existing challenge, you take your shots and post into that challenge thread. If you want to start your own challenge then you'll start a new thread - but please discuss it with me first, via PM, so that it doesn't get confusing.

It happens, cows and ewes are brought into season by the presence of a bull or tup. It would take a lot of guts and skill for farmers to break up a fight between bulls, but that's what farmers do . . . In the case I mentioned, a vet had been called to look at a bull that was apparently limping...