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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Ghost Knapper on July 05, 2015, 09:35:28 pm

Title: All 3 Sides?
Post by: Ghost Knapper on July 05, 2015, 09:35:28 pm

Messed around today with trying to photograph both faces of a point as well as the edge and then put them together into one image. The point was pretty thick and irregular so it "helped" with creating the image I was after.

(http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b604/joelbookhammer/DSCF0751_zps0btln2vq.jpg) (http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/joelbookhammer/media/DSCF0751_zps0btln2vq.jpg.html)

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: caveman2533 on July 05, 2015, 09:44:16 pm

Nice photo. Nice point.

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: caveman2533 on July 05, 2015, 10:02:30 pm

I've got some work for you to do.

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: nclonghunter on July 05, 2015, 10:20:53 pm

Awesome

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: JackCrafty on July 06, 2015, 01:35:42 am

Wow!  Nice.  You've GOT to teach us that!

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: caveman2533 on July 06, 2015, 07:33:48 am

This looks as good as Pete Bostrom's stuff.

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: Outbackbob48 on July 06, 2015, 07:37:45 am

Very Nice, excellent detail. Bob

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: Ghost Knapper on July 06, 2015, 09:05:03 am

Thanks for the compliments. I will post some pics this evening on how i did it. Im also working on sharing how i take them and how to do it with less expensive gear like a cell phone or digital camera.

Pete Bostrom is still beyond what i am doing. He uses large format and medium format film to create a triple exposure.

Steve i got my work schedule switched so i will be down the begining of august and at letchworth.

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: turbo on July 06, 2015, 12:22:53 pm

Very nice! I look forward to the iPhone tutorial.

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: soy on July 06, 2015, 12:29:46 pm

Sweet !!!

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: Zuma on July 06, 2015, 12:33:02 pm

Well done.
I like the symmetry you created by slightly
tipping the front and back faces. Oh and the
shadows show off the edge flaking.
Did you mean to do that?
Zuma

Title: Re: All 3 Sides?
Post by: Ghost Knapper on July 06, 2015, 06:06:23 pm

The lighting was intentional I wanted to make the flake scar pattern show up better. A more uniform light, like a cloudy day would of sufficed in photographing the point but it would have turned out pretty 2 dimensional. I do like a cloudy day though for taking pictures of points it really hides mistakes in the flake scar pattern >:D

The edge view used the same lighting setup that I used for the faces. Im interested in photographing a much thinner point where the blade is slightly curved across the piece. The broad point below is super thin but had a slight curve to it which may make it appear thicker on an edge view. I do not own that piece (wish I did) but I do have a novaculite blade I will try it with.

(http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b604/joelbookhammer/DSCF0561_zpslpmug3ob.jpg) (http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/joelbookhammer/media/DSCF0561_zpslpmug3ob.jpg.html)