Case Mod - In Progress CL0S3 IMPACT-Final pics and a closing for this saga

Im glad you like it,my rubbish pics dont really convey how it looks in RL...
At least thats what was said to me an awful lot over the weekend.

 

Voting open!

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Yes having seen this close up the pics cannot do the paint work justice looking forward to see what happens to the D frame

 

I has Light tent
I still has no photoskills.








I tried but I suck......

 

Good progress bud

 

I will try again....and again....and again.....




Then I will resort to auto.

 

Try experimenting with the white balance, often that can change the entire image for the better.

For the photos themselves, if you make sure the ISO is as low as you can take it (and thus the exposure long enough) and then use a tripod, you can get some really great and clear shots. Also, be sure to shoot in RAW format and then edit later in say photoshop. The amount of flexibility presented by shooting in RAW is unbelievable.

Since the paint itself is dark but iridescent, maybe you could try shooting in low key instead? So if possible, swap out the light background for a dark one. That may help to highlight the awesome paint that you've chosen as it won't have to contend with the backdrop.

How does this look? I only subtly changed a few things like the white balance, this would be much more effective in RAW though.

 

I just got Lightroom now instead of using PS for photo's,Snef just pulled this off from the jpeg...



I like it so far.....

 

Looking Better.. I swear by Lightroom..

Good Luck

 

Lightroom's a great bit of kit, very useful for adding extra data to images and organising them. If working with loads of images, then lightroom is much faster than PS (which is a massive boon for pro photographers). It's also not destructive, in that the original photos are left untouched so that you can do stuff with them alter. However, Photoshop has a lot more depth to it and is an overall more powerful program. It's slower for large numbers of images and if you're not careful, can overwrite the originals quite easily. Having both makes for some really great opportunities really as you can mix the best bits from either.

 

Hi B Negative
Very beautifull and refined job. I want to ask you where you bought that stuff with a black film that turns white in direct light.

 

Its proven invaluable to get the paint effects out,I am a convert to the power of LR!

 

Read the whole thing. So much awesomeness here, I don't even know where to begin.
Also a few odd ends and mishaps, but hey - why should we make a perfect casemod and leaving ourselves not being able to improve on the next project?

I see you got the Aquaero 5 XT. Any false signals from the capacitive touch buttons yet? (Known bug on those units)

 

I use the remote,the touch function is switched off because of that bug.

 

I took the crazy way out - sold the Aquaero 5 XT and bought an Aquaero 6 PRO. Don't think version 6 of the XT has the same problem, but why take the chance when I don't really care about those buttons?