Cognoscenti Pics: This is it I'm done, I'm through!!!

cuesblues

cuesblues

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I've tried and tried to take decent cue pics.
Last night I went to the macro setting, checked everything out, worked on it for an hour, then low and behold I still stink.
Out of several pics trying to bring out the 24K gold inlays and encapsulations on a Cognoscenti cue, they were blurry at best.
I'm tired of friends joking about my pics, I have no artistic ability, and I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler.
So for now I've quit trying, given up, and until I buy a $2000 camera that takes the photos for me I'm done.

Here's what's left after I deleted most of them


Cognoscenti 019.jpg

Cognoscenti 024.jpg

Cognoscenti 015.jpg
 
Geeeez Ted. Did you take those with a disposable camera or what? Those pics do your Cog's no justice at all. That Ivory Cog is the nuts in person.
 
Camera

HereWeGo said:
Geeeez Ted. Did you take those with a disposable camera or what? Those pics do your Cog's no justice at all. That Ivory Cog is the nuts in person.
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See, this is what I'm talking about.

Actually it was a Kodak Brownie, with a flash cube
 
cuesblues said:
See, this is what I'm talking about.

Actually it was a Kodak Brownie, with a flash cube
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Do you hold the camera in your hands when you take pics, Ted :confused:
Or do you use a tripod - that´s a have to.
And don´t try pics from the side, it´s much harder to impossible to get a sharp picture,
when there are different distances to the object at both ends of it.

Start out with normal distances for the butt piece of the cue, but look that the butt uses only half of the whole pic.
I mean try to make a bigger picture, where the butt of you cue uses only the centre piece of the pic,
and your camera should focus at that point, too. :grin:
Use best quality available on you camera and maybe you got a chance with some natural light outside - no flash !!

Open the pic with your program and it will be way to big.
Cut out only the middle piece - should be the butt and then it should be nice for the start.

Hope that helps a little bit,
Erich
 
Seriously. I have seen better paint by numbers. lol. Not to mention that you forgot the JP's.
 
Dakota Cues said:
There are really only 3 things:

Good Camera (Use the "Macro" setting)
Good Lighting
Photo Editing software to add light

Those 3 together = http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=168227
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Your pics are awesome, Dakota. :eek:
But i think he realy could start out easier.
1. Each Camera
2. Natural Light
3. Tripod !!
4. Photoshop as program

As example what i meant with using only app. 50 percent, here is an original pic and then the cut out one.
It´s for sure not perfect, but it went without using macro and only with natural light and a tripod.
If you look, you can see that´s not perfectly sharp on the right side of the pic, that´s because my camera is cheap.
I can only focus on realy small pieces in the pic - middle !!
Good luck Erich

ORIGINAL :
ScruggsButtOriginal.jpg


CUT OUT MIDDLE :
ScruggsButtnear.jpg
 
The best of both worlds. Joe Gold favorite hitting wood (bacote) and one of the nicest if not the nicest Cog I've laid my eyes on.
 
Pics

mair23 said:
Do you hold the camera in your hands when you take pics, Ted :confused:
Or do you use a tripod - that´s a have to.
And don´t try pics from the side, it´s much harder to impossible to get a sharp picture,
when there are different distances to the object at both ends of it.

Start out with normal distances for the butt piece of the cue, but look that the butt uses only half of the whole pic.
I mean try to make a bigger picture, where the butt of you cue uses only the centre piece of the pic,
and your camera should focus at that point, too. :grin:
Use best quality available on you camera and maybe you got a chance with some natural light outside - no flash !!

Open the pic with your program and it will be way to big.
Cut out only the middle piece - should be the butt and then it should be nice for the start.

Hope that helps a little bit,
Erich
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Hey Erich my artistic friend,

I took these pics last night before I saw your Anasazi collage.
Like I said on your thread, I may never take another pic again.

One of the problems is I'm not using Photobucket, so I keep it at 2M fine macro.
You, Dakota, and Tony-BENFICA have given me some good advice so there may be hope yet.
Between the shadows, the blur when I try to get closeups, a skimpy point & shoot camera, and the fact that the pics look great until I upload them, it's very frustrating.

I thought my pics were fine until everybody started telling me they how crappy they were.

Just this week I noticed there was a guide setting on my camera screen, so I have something to work on.

Besides all that, those Cog's play pretty good.

Thanks guys

Ted
 
Did you take the pics or did Stevie Wonder? Send me your cues and I will take the pics for you. Practice on your joint protectors and post them.:grin:
 
You might wanna work on those angles too while youre at it. You didn't happen to be hanging upside down when you took these did you? j/k
 
Stevie

bnall said:
Did you take the pics or did Stevie Wonder? Send me your cues and I will take the pics for you. Practice on your joint protectors and post them.:grin:
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I just got a box set of "learn how to photograph JP's on tape"

Stevie2.jpg
 
cuesblues said:
That book is a little too sophisticated for me.
Can I get it on tape?

Now I'm really mad.
That's it, I'm going out and buying the biggest freakin digital camera known to man.
I'll get one that put's the j/p's back on the cue when I'm done!!!
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Maybe its not the camera? I bet you could make a Playboy Centerfold look fugly with the way you take pics? Nice cues though. Im sure the pics dont do those cues justice. :grin:
 
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