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I spent a little time this morning trying a few different lighting possibilities and discovered a few things.

1. The flood lights I was going to try and create some bright diffuse light with are really yellow. Wow those daylight led lights have really spoiled me.
2. Apparently the thread count on my sheets are great for sleeping, but not so good for diffusing light for photography purposes.
3. IMHO, I'm a crummy photographer.

However, ya'll be the judges. Here is what I think is my best photo of the GC taken today.

Can ya'll see this one? This one above is photobucket.

The one below is on google photos.

I'll leave it as is for a little while to see if more folks can or cannot see the image or if it reappears for some. If it continues to be an issue I'll just go on over to photobucket and start something up over there. Or I could do that anyway and put the same image up to see if ya'll can see that one.

FYI, I looked at the forum using my iphone and could see the image.

It's starting to sound like there might be fewer of those that CAN see the image. How many of you are there that can see it?

So far, it sounds like only mot7981 can.

Take Down Sicko wrote:****?????? *turns to look*

Excuse me!

Pawpaw wrote:

C-dub wrote:

oljames3 wrote: Does not display on my Android.

Sorry. I don't know what the deal is. Can anyone else not see the image? I wonder if it is all mobile devices or just androids.

It's not showing on my PC either, and I'm using Google Chrome browser.

That's odd. I also use Chrome. Maybe I can see it because it is my photo? IDK

oljames3 wrote: Does not display on my Android.

Sorry. I don't know what the deal is. Can anyone else not see the image? I wonder if it is all mobile devices or just androids.

Here's the picture I took with my iPhone. I'm trying out Google Photos because they have unlimited storage if your pictures are less than 16 megapixels, which all of mine are, and it will also allow video, which I don't think photobucket does. Anyway, for an iPhone picture I think this is great. Also considering my own skill as a photographer and it was last minute.

My apologies to Parabelum.

My thread, so here comes a slight drift, but not really.

After perusing several threads around here it seems like the predominantly used photo sharing site is photobucket. I also looked at a few others, well mostly just checked out the reviews on them. What are a couple pros and cons on some of the obvious ones like photobucket, flicker, tinypic, or others I'm not aware of yet? It doesn't seem like they get freaked over firearms pictures. Or do ya'll have to give them innocuous names or call them a toaster instead of a gun?

puma guy wrote:

flechero wrote:

C-dub wrote: Right before heading up I snapped a quick picture with the Colt on a piece of black satin I found and the picture was GREAT.

Without posting the pic in question, we'll all think you are embellishing!

Ya'll are killing me.

Now I'm going to have to try and figure out how to do that. How long have I been here? And I still haven't figured out how to do that yet?

flechero wrote:

C-dub wrote: Right before heading up I snapped a quick picture with the Colt on a piece of black satin I found and the picture was GREAT.

Without posting the pic in question, we'll all think you are embellishing!

Please post it so I can remember how much I used to like my rosewood stocks!

Excellent point. The photo in question was taken with an iPhone 5 on a whim without much thought into anything more than a background I could find quickly that wouldn't detract from the gun itself before leaving the house on the trip.

If I can get the process figured our about how to post any of my own pictures here I might just post that one with the next one to see if there is any significant or noticeable difference.

Archery1 wrote:The method of taking pictures of jewelry and other shiny objects is to use diffused light. This keeps the light refraction from coming back into the picture, which distorts clarity. With diffused, all the tiny details, colors, and contours will look more magazine quality. Look up how to build a simple light tent from a sheet with lamps giving light from the outside. It's a trick collectors use to get the most defined and quality pics of items.

I was thinking a little about this due to shadows and had not considered "diffused" lighting. I'll check into that a bit to see if it something I can do without too much trouble.

These pictures will be only or mostly for documentation purposes. I'm not really interested in other period things to have in the picture that would make for a cool picture, but not what I'm going for at this time.

I haven't posted one of my own pictures on here yet, because I don't have a picture hosting thing yet. And because I take crummy pictures. If I get some good ones in this project I might break down and figure out how to do that and put one or two up here for you folks.

Parabelum, I can't promise that I won't put one of the "you know what" up, but it won't be to antagonize you. I will promise you that. It would only be because it turned out to be an awesome photo.

Good morning everyone.

I'm back from a short vacation and am sure you all missed me terribly.

I wanted to show my dad the grips I found and put on my Colt GC Trophy, but didn't want to take the gun with me on the trip. I had taken it last time I visited, so he'd seen the gun already. I just wanted to show him the new grips. Right before heading up I snapped a quick picture with the Colt on a piece of black satin I found and the picture was GREAT. The trophy model is stainless steel and the grip are rosewood I think. They look like rosewood and I don't actually remember if they really are or not.

However, it got me to thinking that, while I have some okay pictures of many of my firearms, the ones I have are not GREAT. The background on most of those were hastily done using a beige piece of berber carpet for the background. After taking that picture of the Colt with that black satin background it got me to thinking that I need to get better photos of the rest of my collection, arsenal, cache. The black satin will be great for the stainless ones, but probably not so good for the evil black ones. And maybe not so well for the older ones with wooden furniture.

I was thinking that a grey or silver satin might work better for the black ones. What about the wood ones? Is there an other color that would work for all of them? Maybe a red or maroon or some other shade? Or would it better to just get a piece of black and silver/grey and reddish for the various types? That would be okay. I was also thinking about satin versus a texture like felt that would have less chance of creating a glare.

What do ya'll think?