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Comment by Sanjay Khukuri on January 6, 2010 at 1:10

Hi Michael, thank you so much for the advises which am gonna try it when shooting my new Khukuri blade very soon. As per your advise, I will look out to buy a flash unit and try it out as you said. Am an ameture in Photography and quite did not get all the tips but will use this flash for my next shoot and post it so you can point out again. I am very glad to meet you and always wanted to learn more from a Pro.
Thanks again.

Sanjay..............

Comment by michael cassani on January 5, 2010 at 13:34

Hello Sanjay. I will try to help you with the blade problem in your photography. Although the filter idea is good it will not solve the problem, as you have discovered. This lighting problem is one that every professional photographer has to solve at some point in his/her career. From the one photo that i see of yours, it appears that you are using natural light outdoors. You may continue using natural light but will then have to add to it with a small flash unit or other device (off camera). place the flash at a very low angle and "rake" the light across the set. what this does is that it adds light to the handle (non-reflective) usually without the blade picking up most of this added light. The range of intensity of light between the blade and the handle will then be more in balance. There are some other methods that are rather difficult to explain in words to solve the problem so i will have to do a video to demonstrate. Let me just say that this is a challenge and even professionals have a little difficulty with it. I learned it by necessity as i am a prfessional and have worked in the field most of my life. Typically this kind of photogrphy is done in the studio (indoors) with artificial lighting which is very controllable. Otherwise i think the one photo i see of yours is quite well done. good luck and will talk again. michael cassani

Comment by Sanjay Khukuri on January 5, 2010 at 7:40

Hi Johnny, thank you for welcoming me. The problmes with my pictures are the reflection. The blades are always shiny and no matter how I try to cut them with filters, they are still there.

Sanjay

Comment by Johnny Stout on January 4, 2010 at 18:14

Welcome Sanjay. I too have been taking my own knife pics for a while, but am always wanting learn more and improve. I think I can do that on the forum.

Johnny

Comment by Sanjay Khukuri on January 4, 2010 at 6:42

I'm Sanjay from Khukuri House/Kathmandu/Nepal. I have been taking photographs of my Blades for years and still willing to improve. I hope to meet you all good photographers and learn more from you all. Here 's a shot of one of my blade.

Comment by Johnny Stout on December 24, 2009 at 12:54

I'm looking forward to being here is this group. I've been taking my own pictures for a few years now but still feel like a novice compared to some of pictures that are posted on these forums.

Comment by Andy Voelkle "AxeMan" on November 4, 2009 at 12:07

Good photo, and also your new avatar. A pear is appropriate to the Opinel.

Comment by Rusty R Halsey on November 2, 2009 at 18:22

Frank,
Your pics look pretty good, your method is worth trying. I found the lights on ebay.

Comment by Frank Evans on November 1, 2009 at 11:43

That's from a set of old scales I bought at an auction.. I have 1/10 OZ to a pound.

Comment by J.J. Smith III on November 1, 2009 at 1:12

That's what I missed...

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