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Very nice work as always V

Thanks Anthony !

The tuckbox of the Medallions are simply stunning, especially the back. Tried to highlight that in this picture.

With that picture, yes - that was a fantastic job of highlighting the gold foil and embossing. You can see the surface is three-dimensional in that shot.

Don Boyer wrote:With that picture, yes - that was a fantastic job of highlighting the gold foil and embossing. You can see the surface is three-dimensional in that shot.

Thanks Don, that was my exact intention.

Sweet pix, volantangel! You are always looking to outdo yourself and never cease to amaze!

Thanks Mikey ! Its always fun to try and outdo myself each time, to try and come up with new ideas on how to showcase a deck without elaborate equipment or setup.

Something simple for today.

Simple and elegant!

RSLancastr wrote:Simple and elegant!

Thanks Robert !

This is something i just worked on an hour ago, im supposed to keep it for a different day, but i simply cant help it, im going to have trouble topping myself from now on. Here you have the Tron inspired Grid decks.

Do you have a blacklight? Grid 2 really needs a black light!

montecarlojoe wrote:Do you have a blacklight? Grid 2 really needs a black light!

sadly no, and i have no idea where to get one. otherwise its gonna be pretty awesome with Grid 2.0

volantangel wrote:

montecarlojoe wrote:Do you have a blacklight? Grid 2 really needs a black light!

sadly no, and i have no idea where to get one. otherwise its gonna be pretty awesome with Grid 2.0

Oh, I dunno, maybe:

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There's currently more than 35,000 items if you search on "blacklight".
...but if you search on "blacklight" -"poster" -"posters" there's still more than 6,000 items.

Take photos of Grid 2.0, and also detect counterfit bills and urine stains. Win-win-win!!

Cool

I'm looking at your photos Volantangel, and I have to say that you're doing great work sir! I really enjoy your thread!

Thanks guys for the complements !

Anyways Robert none of them would ship it halfway across the world, im sure ill find one if i dig around the stores hard enough

Lotrek, dont worry Grotesque will be given special treatment, i assure you =)


More experimenting is due, ill call it experiment week ! Trying different techniques and styles. Just FYI, the grid decks were done in a long exposure in a dark room with light from my phone and light trails behind the decks.

Doing the following picture on your own is not as easy as it seems

montecarlojoe wrote:Cool

I think it was The Kids in the Hall who did a hilarious extended sketch along those same lines.

An Empire built on fire and flames. Glory awaits.
Edit: No idea why it appears blur in this picture, click on it to see the actual image

Awesome lighting!

montecarlojoe wrote:Awesome lighting!

Agreed. How was that done volantangel, if I might ask?

RSLancastr wrote:

montecarlojoe wrote:Awesome lighting!

Agreed. How was that done volantangel, if I might ask?

Haha are you ready for a lecture on photography ?

Equipment used
1 x DSLR
2 x Bike lights (1 white 1 red)
1 x lifted grilled platform (the thing the deck is standing on, was part of a bedside desk)
?? x Books or 1 x tripod


Camera Settings
Aperture F11
Shutter 8s
ISO 100


Method
This shot was done in a dark room (any room at night basically). The deck was made to stand at an angle on the grills. I had my camera focused on the deck, and level with the deck using a couple of books, important that its not hand held and is sitting on something or on a tripod so that you dont get shaky photos.

I placed the white bike light under the grills shining up at an angle so the light comes in through the grills to have that effect and light up the bottom half of the deck. i held the red bike light in my hands and have it shining top-down and into the deck on the left and upper half of the deck.


Inspiration/Ideology behind the photo
The red was made to represent blood/fire(destruction) on which an empire is built, after all the carnage we start to see a glimpse of the glory from the birth of the new empire represented by the white light.

-End of Lecture-

Something tells me that my $30 phone camera and a bedside lamp shone through some venetian mini blinds probably won't get quite the same results.

Haha well its going to be a little more of a challenge in your case robert. But im sure theres a ton of stuff you can do with whatever is at hand. But my advice with a low end camera is to take pictures with good bright lighting, its only at night does the camera difference start to show
Tried to separate the deck from the ground in this shot. Not super well-done tho.

One last one for the weekend, two actually but of the same deck. Once again I attempted to highlight the embossing work done on the deck especially the back.

I present to you, a Monarch like you've never seen before.

<===== (Looks at his cheap cell phone camera in shame)

Something relatively simple for today, just noting the details that go into each deck.

Love the Hendrick's deck pic V and nice job capturing the embossing on the Monarch deck

Thanks Sparkz !

Some relatively simple stuff for the week, a busy week for me !

One for the day ! Done w my backlog, will get down to taking new photos again soon Any decks y'all want to see featured?

volantangel wrote:One for the day ! Done w my backlog, will get down to taking new photos again soon Any decks y'all want to see featured?

What about a Jerry's Nugget?

The Glow-in-the-Dark, Gilded, No-Revoke, Gold Seal Limited Edition.

...with the misprint, of course.

Haha Robert ain't got any of those, could use some though, would you like to send me one ?

volantangel wrote:Haha Robert ain't got any of those, could use some though, would you like to send me one ?

Sorry, I'd hate to open the brick of mine.