Weekly Assignment #65: Beauty of a Blade

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited April 23, 2008 in Assignments
OK, let's get down to a cold steel blade.
Ubiquitous in our kitchens, knives are often beautiful and usually highly reflective objects, which tend to create certain troubles for photographers, just the way glass and chrome does.
This time we going to try to capture the beauty of a blade. You're hired to do a cover for the "Texas Knives" or "California Blade" (you can pick your own country/state:-) magazine. What would it be?
One final image per entry, please, multiple entries are OK. Post-processing at will, but please submit the original image(s), too, as well as the "how to" and setup pics.
And yes - it's gotta be a magazine cover! :deal
Let's shoot some blades!
"May the f/stop be with you!"
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  • BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    Okay dumb question - when you say Magazine cover, does that mean that you are looking for a portrait orientation of the page/image; taller than wide.

    I have an idea and a new camera and I am home for a change...
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    BradfordBenn wrote:
    Okay dumb question - when you say Magazine cover, does that mean that you are looking for a portrait orientation of the page/image; taller than wide.

    I have an idea and a new camera and I am home for a change...
    Yessir! thumb.gif The cover is "portrait". But of course you can shoot landscape and then fill the cover with more than one imagemwink.gif or with some related material (title, contents, etc.)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    Clues ...
    1 - 2
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    Antonio Correia wrote:
    1 - 2
    rolleyes1.gif
    All wrong! mwink.gif
    I simply got a spanking brand new set of Calphalon Katana knives for my BD earlier this month..lol3.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    All wrong! mwink.gif
    I simply got a spanking brand new set of Calphalon Katana knives for my BD earlier this month..lol3.gif

    See no reason.
    Yes master. OK eek7.gif
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  • TravisTravis Registered Users Posts: 1,472 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    All wrong! mwink.gif
    I simply got a spanking brand new set of Calphalon Katana knives for my BD earlier this month..lol3.gif

    Awesome knives. One day I'll own a set but for now I'll just have to wait for to post a photo of them. :D
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  • djspinner2kdjspinner2k Registered Users Posts: 127 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    I have a cheap dollar store set of knives.ne_nau.gif

    but I have a vision.

    so we will see what happens
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    Travis wrote:
    Awesome knives. One day I'll own a set but for now I'll just have to wait for to post a photo of them. :D
    Since I finally got kicked out of this LPS season for good, I have nothing else to do but at least play here lol3.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • MooreDrivenMooreDriven Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    Since I finally got kicked out of this LPS season for good, I have nothing else to do but at least play here lol3.gif
    Don't you mean cut out. Sorry, it's just fit the assignment. Congratulations on making it as far as you did. clap.gif The competition looked really tough.bowdown.gif

    I guess I better start looking for some blades!

    Dale
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    MooreDriven wrote:
    Don't you mean cut out.
    Yeah, prolly, the final result is the same - I can't hang out with the cool kids anymore... mwink.gifrolleyes1.gif
    MooreDriven wrote:
    Sorry, it's just fit the assignment.
    that was a good one:-)
    MooreDriven wrote:
    Congratulations on making it as far as you did. clap.gif The competition looked really tough.bowdown.gif
    Thanks! It was fun though!
    MooreDriven wrote:
    I guess I better start looking for some blades!
    Dale
    You do that, Dale! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • doug pettwaydoug pettway Registered Users Posts: 55 Big grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    cool topic assignment!

    i am nearly done with a knife that i made the scales for. i'll "showcase" that one the magazine cover. :)
    "A .jpg is worth 1kb of .txt"

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  • leaforteleaforte Registered Users Posts: 1,948 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    From your posts I can assume that you do like kitchen knifes very much.
    Am I wrong ? ne_nau.gif
    I wonder if you like to use them that much for cooking mwink.gif

    Here is an old cake knife witch was offered to my wife and to myself some 32 years ago. It belonged to an old woman.
    It was from her own wedding.
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    setup / final / original
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  • evorywareevoryware Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    Antonio, what off camera cord is that, if I may ask?
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  • doug pettwaydoug pettway Registered Users Posts: 55 Big grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    I dont have a second camera so i wasnt able to get a photo of the "set up". But here is what i did: using a cloth backdrop that i placed on the floor, i put a book (The Decameron, if it matters :) ) on the sheet and then placed the knife on top. my camera was mounted on a tripod pointing down. i moved the lighting around until i felt it looked ok. post-processing includes white balancing the RAW file, some sharpening, and then i added the vignette.

    as for the table saw blade: well...i just turned it on and took a picture of it. :)

    Original:

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    Original:

    247494589-M.jpg

    Final:

    247494615-XL.jpg
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  • PilznrPilznr Registered Users Posts: 262 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    as for the table saw blade: well...i just turned it on and took a picture of it. :)


    Very funny cover. Nice job! I've been looking for a cool knife to photograph, but I've come up with nothing.
    M@

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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    evoryware wrote:
    Antonio, what off camera cord is that, if I may ask?

    Sure you can ask. :D
    Sure I can tell. :D


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    Off-Camera Shoe Cord 2
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    Pilznr wrote:
    Very funny cover. Nice job! I've been looking for a cool knife to photograph, but I've come up with nothing.

    Get an old one mwink.gif
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  • doug pettwaydoug pettway Registered Users Posts: 55 Big grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    Pilznr wrote:
    Very funny cover. Nice job! I've been looking for a cool knife to photograph, but I've come up with nothing.

    get an assortment of plastic knives and do a "shoot-out" to determine which brand is the best. :D

    come to think of it...i might try it if you pass on the idea. :D
    "A .jpg is worth 1kb of .txt"

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  • PilznrPilznr Registered Users Posts: 262 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    doug pettway wrote:
    get an assortment of plastic knives and do a "shoot-out" to determine which brand is the best. :D

    come to think of it...i might try it if you pass on the idea. :D

    It's your idea, go for it. I think I'm going to go to the one place I've been avoiding. I work in a theatre with a very extensive prop shop. mwink.gif
    M@

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  • douglasdouglas Registered Users Posts: 696 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2008
    Rambo Returns!
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    Best regards,
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  • stirfrystirfry Registered Users Posts: 242 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2008
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  • douglasdouglas Registered Users Posts: 696 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2008
    Stirfry.... Excellent, Very Well Done!!clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif
    Best regards,
    douglas
  • evorywareevoryware Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2008
    Thanks Antonio! I have one, but it doesn't stretch that far. I will have to force the issue. :D
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  • fashiznitsngrinsfashiznitsngrins Registered Users Posts: 220 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2008
    Here's mine...
    Please note: Only one bendable bunny was harmed during the making of this image.

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  • stirfrystirfry Registered Users Posts: 242 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2008
    douglas wrote:
    Stirfry.... Excellent, Very Well Done!!clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif

    Thanks, Douglas iloveyou.gif as soon as I saw yours I was wishing I had cooler cutlery to play with!
  • stirfrystirfry Registered Users Posts: 242 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2008
    fashiznitsngrins wrote:
    Please note: Only one bendable bunny was harmed during the making of this image.

    rolleyes1.gif This is shaping up to be quite a fun thread.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2008
    OK, here's my hasty attempt at blade-related cover:

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    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2008
    leaforte wrote:
    Northwest steel
    Great image, love it! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • leaforteleaforte Registered Users Posts: 1,948 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    OK, here's my hasty attempt at blade-related cover:

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    I like the result of the work put into the final product!
    Growing with Dgrin



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