Hi! Hope everyone is gearing up for a great weekend!
I have just completed my first trial scan using my new Epson 4870. How cool!
The exposure is a still life of my son's derby car built for the Boy Scout Derby race coming up in March.
http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=145834
Anyway, I'm having such fun and I had to share the glee :-D
Too cool, Ellen.
Pine Car Derby! Haven`t seen those in 25 years.
Looks like you can do the LF thing too. Nice jobS.
Ellen,
That's a beautiful job! My son just competed recently in a Cub Scout pinewood derby, but sadly didn't come away with a trophy. Nice work on the photo.
Ellen,
Very nice... keep it up!
Cheers
Life in the fast lane!
Ellen,
Great picture of the pinewood derby car. As for the upcoming race, my adavice, based on experience with my son's pinewood derby car, is to buy some powdered graphite in a hardware store and use it liberally to lubricate the wheels and axles. My son put his weights as far forward on the car as possible on the theory that this positioning would cause the weights to "pull" the car down under the force of gravity. His car was crudely made, but he wiped out the competition. Good luck on the race.
Thank you everyone :-)
Now you need to try some tilt and swing - to get the back wheel in focus. Good choice of f/stop for selective focus (getting the background out of focus). Good start.
Nice start. My first few shots did not have an image. Keith has the right idea. I always Put the weights on the front and lots of graphite. Speed over looks was my motto and never walked away from a pine derby empty handed.
Ellen, I hate you. Your first scan looks excellent and mine looks like crap. Once I make a scan that looks vaguely like the transparency I will post a link here. BTW, I was using the Silverfast plug-in in Photoshop CS. What scanning software were you using?
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