World Image issue 17 February 2015

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Studio Practice Working with Vinyl's by Gordon Longmead In spite of the cold weather making for work in my new ‘studio’ a bit on the chilly side, there occasionally arises the opportunity to invite the odd visitor to take a seat in the studio. I do sometimes put the heating on, but only if I am going to work in there for any length of time. But for the passing visitor I rarely bother. For this article the subject of the exercise is the vinyl backgrounds currently available from China and the unwary visitor in the form of my good friend Micky Bowles. The sheet may only cost 99p but postage can be £16. Some offer at £12.50 post paid. All from China, the quality is good but the sheets come folded so the creases need to be stretched or ironed out, something I have not done on the sheet use … yet. Delivery is also very good, they quote up to 27 days, often only a week. So having got the sheet and clipped it to your backdrop stand, arranged for your model to sit or stand in pose, it is time to turn on the lights. For this test I used a snow scene background 5ft wide by 7ft high. This is the standard format of these sheets, but others are available. Also, you can send your own picture to them and they will print it for you. You can get these through ebay but you need to be aware of the pricing system they use. For this session I used two steady floods aimed into silver brolly reflectors. One was positioned to the right at 45 degrees to the front and above the subject at a distance of 2.5ft, about 6ft above the ground. The second was positioned to the left, 45 degrees to the front of the subject at a distance of 2ft, about 3.5ft above the ground. Website = photosociety.net Page 14 email = magazine@photosociety.net
The angle between the lights vinyl and camera is fairly important to avoid possible reflections from the vinyl surface. If the angle is to shallow the light will bounce back at the lens. Camera mounted flash is not recommended. The angled lights also remove the subjects shadow from the background. The camera settings for these three images was 40mm on an 18 - 55mm lens, and 320th at F5. Distance from camera to subject was about 5ft hand held. I have invested in a few more of these backdrops, mainly due to the price. But I like the quality of the images, and they serve my purpose. Gordon I still have a selection of other Fotospeed papers to review, but since I needed to test the quality of this paper and its potential for the exhibition prints I decided to start with the PFGloss270 Panoramic Inkjet Media. Fotospeed Inkjet Panoramic Paper. By Gordon Longmead Once this was overcome all was well. For this test I set up the picture in my old and trusted MS Publisher. The paper is designed to be printed on a standard A4 desktop printer being 594mm by 210mm in size. It also comes with free custom ICC profiles for those who understand such things. I do not since I have never had problems with print quality. The printer I used is an Epsom Stylus SX235W set to Epsom Glossy media. This is a standard setting for me which also allows me to compare the Fotospeed print with earlier standards. The biggest problem I found was to get the printer to actually set the program to accept the user defined page size and the printer to do the same. The panorama used was of the centre of Padova in Italy. As you can see it is a long picture so when printed as a image on the selected paper size it is narrow. I have used the excess space for inclusion of a title. The printer accepted the paper first time and it travelled through with out any problems although it is advisable to stand ready to catch the print if needed. The result was excellent, The fine detail was all in evidence and the colour rendition was spot on. The paper has a good finish and a feel akin to quality photographic papers. Website = photosociety.net Page 15 email = magazine@photosociety.net
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