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Subject:Re: Using digital camera for illustrations? From:Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:21:06 -0700
I've been following this thread and can't figure out what the problem
is. I have a small studio set up in my office for product shots and I
use a Canon Pro 8 Megapixel camera with two 150 tungsten shop lights for
side lights and one 100 watt tungsten shop light for fill. The lights
were bought at the local hardware store...nothing special. I shoot
everything in RAW format, then use Photoshop to clean the background and
crop the image. If the image is to be used in something that will be
run on a laser printer, I drop the contrast. (Laser printers are
notorious for upping the contrast and making a good print look like a
black blob.) If the image is to be used on something that will be
offset printed, then I set the contrast accordingly (soft for newsprint
and closer to normal for higher quality papers). Most of our products
have black cases, or cover panels. I have never had any problems with
this set up and find I can get exceptional detail. I should point out
that unless I need to, I never, ever shoot anything in JPG format. I
shoot with the camera in RAW or TIFF modes only.
I have never had to convert any of my shots to a line drawing yet. This
thread started about image quality then appeared to change to converting
continuous tone prints to line art. Or maybe I'm missing something????
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