Rifle Photography

03 May 2011, 08:27

DArcy_Echols_Co

Howard
If you go to our web site and then to our Contact page you'll see an address for Klik Photo. Klik has done all my pics for at least 16 years. Very reasonable price's and excellent work ethic. He did all the web site pics except the Buffalo
D'Arcy

03 May 2011, 10:19

bobby van der Putten

http://www.holtsauctioneers.com/about.html

Look at 1.16, this is how it should be done

03 May 2011, 23:53

22WRF

Howard

If I am not mistaken you have one of the finest gun photographers residing somewhere out there near you.

Mustafa Bilal

I believe he now goes by the name Turks Head Productions.

04 May 2011, 02:17

Pegleg

Mustafa Bilal

Quote: "I believe he now goes by the name Turks Head Productions."

Located in Lake City, WA.

Does a lot of photo work for Leupold.

04 May 2011, 02:19

Howard

quote:
Originally posted by 22WRF:
Howard

If I am not mistaken you have one of the finest gun photographers residing somewhere out there near you.

Mustafa Bilal

I believe he now goes by the name Turks Head Productions.

Yes and I have received a quote from him.

04 May 2011, 04:11

Biebs

Did it exceed the cost of the rifles??? :-)

04 May 2011, 08:24

JBrown

quote:
Originally posted by Biebs:
Did it exceed the cost of the rifles??? :-)

Jason

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04 May 2011, 10:09

Howard

quote:
Originally posted by Biebs:
Did it exceed the cost of the rifles??? :-)

No but....................... Does fantastic work though.

04 May 2011, 11:00

TC1

Steven Dodd Hughes does this type work.

Terry

05 May 2011, 04:59

Ramsgate

Okay, I can't stand it, I have to offer my two cents. I looked at Howard's photos in the other thread and examined the exif data in the worst one. His exposure was too slow, his lens aperture was too wide (low numerically), his white balance was off, his background was unfortunate and a tripod wasn't in the mix. That's the bad stuff. The good stuff is that his Panasonic is perfectly capable of high quality web work. Ambient light from an overcast day will fix his white balance, expand his tonal range and a few reflectors of white cardboard will reveal even the most muted shadow detail. A tripod and use of the self timer will dramatically improve sharpness. An aperture somewhere around f11 and lowest ISO available would be nice. A lot of very competent gun photographers stop down their lenses dramatically and I won't argue but I would not. All that is left is a bland background and a simple post processing program like the free Picasa (crop and straighten and not much else required) and you can keep people like myself at bay.

I should add that I was dazzled by Howard's rifles

05 May 2011, 19:58

Scrollcutter

Gary Bolster in tricities WA.

05 May 2011, 23:24

Howard

Roger, do you have contact info? He is driving distance.

Ramsgate, thanks for the tips.

06 May 2011, 06:15

Scrollcutter

(H) 509 337 92223 (C) 509 629 2052 gbent@hughes.net

Thanks Duane

06 May 2011, 08:28

ForrestB

Gary did us a big favor by doing the photo work on the Searcy Scholarship Rifle project...super fast, super good and FREE of charge. I can't say enough good things about him.

07 May 2011, 06:15

srtrax

I didnt see anything wrong whith the pictures James did with TC1's 223!

07 May 2011, 22:38

TC1

After I saw those photographs I told James he could probably make a living doing that. His reply was there wasn't enough hours in the day to complete the gun work on his books now.

BTW, that rifle and his photography work graced the cover of the ACGG winter issue!

Terry

07 May 2011, 23:15

22WRF

If I recall correctly, Gunmaker had a poll on here requesting people to vote on which background looked the best.

So, I would assume that he shot the Rifle against a green screen and then added the winning background using Photoshop.

He was careful to make sure the gun was basically all in one plane so that he had good depth of field. Whereas, in the Searcy Memorial Photo the plane of focus is much larger, and I have a feeling that a view camera with front tilt was used to keep everything in focus.

I believe one can purchase those digital backgrounds in a number of places, including Amazon.

08 May 2011, 06:28

Ramsgate

quote:
Originally posted by 22WRF:
Whereas, in the Searcy Memorial Photo the plane of focus is much larger, and I have a feeling that a view camera with front tilt was used to keep everything in focus.

Do you mean the excellent photo in ForrestB's post? Exif says Pentax K10D @ ISO 100 and 1/180s but does not give the aperture but we can assume a whole pile of light.

08 May 2011, 06:56

22WRF

I guessed wrong. But if I was going to shoot that I would have used my P2 (but I don't have a digital back for it).

10 May 2011, 23:00

Howard

quote:
Originally posted by Scrollcutter:
gbent@hughes.net

Thanks Duane

Could you double check the email? It bounced back.

11 May 2011, 01:37

ForrestB

Here's the contact info I have:

Gary Bolster
3579 Clodius Rd. Waitsburg, WA 99361
marster@hughes.net
509-337-9223

12 May 2011, 08:21

GSSP

quote:
Originally posted by ForrestB:
Gary did us a big favor by doing the photo work on the Searcy Scholarship Rifle project...super fast, super good and FREE of charge. I can't say enough good things about him.

ForrestB,

Do you know who stocked this rifle? Was it Glen Morovitz of Newell, SD? I know he's done stuff for Searcy.

Alan