Recent content by stevie_boy

Just took this sigma 1.4f 30mm on holiday to lapland, used as a walk around lens, works great in low light as lapland has very poor light (see my wifes compact comparison) Also because of the wideish angle you have to do a lot of cropping in photoshop as a result, but with the resultion of...

cheers for that, i think for £60 its worth a punt!

just one last question, is it a 1to1 ratio as for pen to screen resolution?

sorry just read the post again its the 20 inch widescreen you stated not the 21inch, sorry. I have also had the 2007. I would forget it and go for the 24 inch. massive difference, you wont look back

i have both monitors you mention, both are excellent. 24inch is a great to work on i must say but in reality you only gain extra desktop space on the sides 1920x1200 vs 1600x1200. good for the extra menus. you cant go wrong with either, but get the 24 inch if you can afford it though

when you get it can you let me know if its any good.

very good point about about where the sun was shining from and the height in the sky. Not something i thought of to be honest as mostly all the products are shot on a white backdrop with a lightbox, this one was taken in my front garden

It seems you have to treat the product shadow in 2 or maybe 3 dimensions, ie: width, depth and height. On this version the base of the trolley has no shadow as its flat on the floor yet the height of the truck starts from the wheels upwards and moves into a perspective vanishing point I assume...

i tried this demo this is the result, still not quite right, i think it stems from where the shadow starts from, ie the base, this looks like. anybody got any suggestions.

I do quite alot of product photography and light my white backgrounds accordingly with seperate lighting, inevitably sometimes the products have to be cut out. I would like to know a good technique to create a convincing product shadow, I have tried a few techeqniques but non seem to be...