How to take egg Pictures.

[duluthralphie]

This is a continuation of thread that started in another thread to no Hijack it I moved it here:

Originally Posted by minnehaha

It's with a Samsung galaxy 5s. It's the first time I've tried using this phone to take pictures of blue eggs and it didn't work well. How weird that the Iphone does the same thing! My old HTC Incredible over exposed them making them look almost white. I asked my 15 year old daughter to try and take a few pictures with her Iphone 5, here are the results. She touched a buttom on the bottom of the screen with 3 circles that showed the eggs in all kinds of exposures (she screen shot it for us), then chose the ones that looked best. Which one looks the bluest to you? Do you also have Cream legbar hens? I wonder if I have any feature like that on my phone? I'll have to explore it. Do you have this setting?

IPHONE 5 screen shot of choices using that circle button on the bottom of screen


Iphone 5 chrome


Iphone 5 process


Samsung Galaxy 5s (I don't know what my phone camera setting are yet)






I did not know about those functions!

I found them after reading your post, but it appears you still have the same problem I do, I could not get the white paper towel to appear white in any of them.

I wonder if using something other than white would help. I have tried editing my pictures on the computer before but that fails too.

Anyone with ideas or camera people help.


I like using my iPhone however, I thought about trading it in on a galaxy because of lack of color in the pictures, Not" gonna" do that now.


I pulled out an old camera the other day, but I am having troubles getting it to work, I need a 15 year old!

My kids are pushing 40 so they are not as much help as they use to be.

 

[duluthralphie]

Oh Come on!!

Someone must have a trick or technique to help me take better egg pictures...Pleeeeeease!

 

[duluthralphie]

Differing background and IPhone pictures, they are so lacking the real look of the eggs.

I get carried away with pictures but I think I have some that may show its beauty. I cannot believe how excited I get over egg pictures.

The first picture is with a brown egg on a white napkin.



This picture shows the porcelain egg on a black background with a blue egg on a white napkin. Blue eggs are hard for me to get the color right on my iPhone.


This is the porcelain egg. at least I think it is, it, to me is the perfect egg. I would marry it if I could and my wife would not commit me for it.

Look how beautiful it is, a nice cream color, perfect condition.... The other eggs are blue and light brown.



And here I am holding it. I get a tingle up my arm just holding such a perfect egg! Oh the other egg is brown. A medium shade of brown.



And now I am holding it with a blue egg



The eggs are left to right, light brown, olive, The prefect egg, a blue egg and a medium brown



Again left to right: Olive, Light brown, Medium brown, Porcelain/cream and the blue


same picture different exposure.




There is a young couple that would like some chickens for themselves, I cannot give them any because I do not know who lays the porcelain egg and I would hate to sell or give her away. I do not even dare send another chicken to freezer camp until I know who's egg it is.

 

[SilkieNation]

Differing background and IPhone pictures, they are so lacking the real look of the eggs.

I get carried away with pictures but I think I have some that may show its beauty. I cannot believe how excited I get over egg pictures.

The first picture is with a brown egg on a white napkin.



This picture shows the porcelain egg on a black background with a blue egg on a white napkin. Blue eggs are hard for me to get the color right on my iPhone.


This is the porcelain egg. at least I think it is, it, to me is the perfect egg. I would marry it if I could and my wife would not commit me for it.

Look how beautiful it is, a nice cream color, perfect condition.... The other eggs are blue and light brown.



And here I am holding it. I get a tingle up my arm just holding such a perfect egg! Oh the other egg is brown. A medium shade of brown.



And now I am holding it with a blue egg



The eggs are left to right, light brown, olive, The prefect egg, a blue egg and a medium brown



Again left to right: Olive, Light brown, Medium brown, Porcelain/cream and the blue


same picture different exposure.




There is a young couple that would like some chickens for themselves, I cannot give them any because I do not know who lays the porcelain egg and I would hate to sell or give her away. I do not even dare send another chicken to freezer camp until I know who's egg it is.

Your egg pictures are lovely. I only tried it once...with mixed results... You've inspired me to take some more!

 

[ZZZ]

Well, I see I'm a few years late to this thread... ha! But I thought I'd go ahead and leave a few notes in case it's helpful to someone anyway. I am a newbie here, and feel like a "taker" since I'm mostly learning, learning, learning! While I'm new to chicken keeping, I've been a professional photographer for 10+ years. Here's a picture I took of my eggs today:

Here are a couple ideas to try, with any camera or phone:

1) Your thoughts about playing with the background color are good! If you are having trouble capturing the realistic colors of your eggs, try setting the eggs against a grey background, in open shade, with no artificial lighting. For the above picture, I placed my eggs on our grey dining table, turned off all of our interior lights, and allowed the light from the dining room windows on the left to illuminate my twig "nest". Be sure there is no sun falling onto your picture, even if it's coming in through the window. Daylight is good, direct sunshine is not -- for this purpose, anyhow. (In looking at the original pictures posted to this thread, I would guess there was tungsten lighting overhead, which casts a yellow-orange tint.)

2) Part of the beauty of eggs is in their form, so to emphasize the form it's helpful to showcase highlights and shadows. An easy way to do this is to make sure your light source is coming from a side angle, instead of overhead. You'll notice the brightest spot on each of my eggs in the picture above is on the left side, since the sole light source was the window to the left. On the right side of the eggs, you can see deeper shadows. By incorporating strong highlights and shadows, the form is more well defined.

I hope those couple thoughts might help someone!? I always love seeing the creative ways people photograph their eggs, and their chickens! I'd love to hear more "egg photography" ideas from others, too!