Wrath's Marans

[thistlewick]

Ah ha! Professional photographer? This explains why your photos are so good!

thank you!! I only have sold a few photos to magazines and it was landscapes -- and before photography I was an illustrator, so all the 'art laws and rules' apply.
Honestly the secret sauce to photography is just the right kind of light and then composition in the frame. That's it.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Flash or sunlight really brings out the true color of the eggs. They may not look their darkest, but you get a true look at them.
The Bergs Fairytale garden on FB has some of the finest looking dark and colored eggs. Some are charcoal gray, almost black. I complimented their eggs and said I would love to see a photo in the sunlight.

Let me just say as a professional photographer for a time, natural light is the *best light there is* bar none. It's what we hunt for.

So if he was trying to say otherwise, he was F O S.

Either I'm misunderstanding or taking pics wrong because I have to disagree. I'm by no means a photographer but with the 2 pics I posted above, one in sunlight and the other under an LED can light.
The pic under LED is closer to true color and clearly shows the one egg is darker than the other. In sunlight they both look almost identical in color.

Maybe it's just my phone, I'm not arguing to argue. It's just what my eyes see. I think I did also say above that even under the LED the color is actually not as dark as the eggs are. Just a tad shade lighter in pic, that doesn't bother me as I don't want to portray my eggs as darker than they are. I'm here to keep it honest especially for my customers. I don't use filters or add smoke and glitter. But I do try to capture as close to the correct color as possible. That's the best I can do with what I have.

If there's other ways or options to try by all means I'd love to hear, short of buying a camera that's not in the cash flow.
Maybe I'll try some pics with my tablet under different lighting to see what that does.

This is by no means meant to be disrespectful, if it sounded that way, I apologize.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Maybe I'm running off at the mouth here, because after thinking on it when I take pics of the birds in natural light they show up great. So it's possible it's my eyes seeing something else with egg color. It's hard getting correct pics for sure.

I'll keep trying to play with the egg pics and always welcome feedback.

 

[thistlewick]

omg wraths no you were NOT disrespectful or arguing at all, omg don't worry <3 <3



Okay, so camera, monitor, and finishing program (what you edit pictures with) can have a lot to do with color as well. Photographers will meticulously calibrate their monitors to adjust the color to match the naked eye. One photo on one monitor or phone will look entirely different on another monitor or phone. Some older cameras and phones have strange color profiles that will totally screw with what you see with the naked eye.

It is probably the devices you're using and not the lighting at all.

Natural daylight is ideal for photographs in general -- but natural light has *loads* of color changing properties and colors will look different under different natural light at different times of day.

All I meant by professional photographers hunting natural light is just that - hunting the *best* light for the best photo - that typically means afternoon "golden hour" right before sunset. Sometimes morning light as well, right after dawn - but that light is cooler (more blue in that light because the atmosphere is thinner).

I could go on and on and on.

To get the best pics of your eggs color, a studio set up might be best.

use indoor/indirect sunlight and a diffuse flash like a setup here:

(this image I just grabbed off the web to show what I was talking about)


Also, what camera are you using? What program do you use to edit the photograph and what are you generally looking at the photos on? A monitor? A phone? What kind of monitor and phone? We can absolutely get down to the nitty gritty on figuring this out if you want!!


Just let me know!

 

[TexasBlues]

I think the dark photos that people post online are misleading, that’s why i show my customers egg pictures taken in direct sunlight. The darker, soft light photos look best, but they also don’t show a realistic color compared to direct sunlight.
Here’s the picture of the amazing eggs that I commented on:

Photo credit to https://www.facebook.com/Bergsfairytalegarden/

 

[wrathsfarm]

omg wraths no you were NOT disrespectful or arguing at all, omg don't worry <3 <3



Okay, so camera, monitor, and finishing program (what you edit pictures with) can have a lot to do with color as well. Photographers will meticulously calibrate their monitors to adjust the color to match the naked eye. One photo on one monitor or phone will look entirely different on another monitor or phone. Some older cameras and phones have strange color profiles that will totally screw with what you see with the naked eye.

It is probably the devices you're using and not the lighting at all.

Natural daylight is ideal for photographs in general -- but natural light has *loads* of color changing properties and colors will look different under different natural light at different times of day.

All I meant by professional photographers hunting natural light is just that - hunting the *best* light for the best photo - that typically means afternoon "golden hour" right before sunset. Sometimes morning light as well, right after dawn - but that light is cooler (more blue in that light because the atmosphere is thinner).

I could go on and on and on.

To get the best pics of your eggs color, a studio set up might be best.

use indoor/indirect sunlight and a diffuse flash like a setup here:

View attachment 4099818
(this image I just grabbed off the web to show what I was talking about)


Also, what camera are you using? What program do you use to edit the photograph and what are you generally looking at the photos on? A monitor? A phone? What kind of monitor and phone? We can absolutely get down to the nitty gritty on figuring this out if you want!!


Just let me know!

Uhhhh....crappy phone.
That. Is. All.


I'm happy you didn't take it the wrong way. When I took pics of Kong it was late afternoon, sun behind me. The pic of eggs was pretty direct sun over top.
I'm thinking now, I'll bring it up it the team meetings in the morning and I'm sure I can bribe Kong into letting me balance the eggs on his back for another photo shoot.

 

[WingItRanch]

I think the dark photos that people post online are misleading, that’s why i show my customers egg pictures taken in direct sunlight. The darker, soft light photos look best, but they also don’t show a realistic color compared to direct sunlight.
Here’s the picture of the amazing eggs that I commented on:
View attachment 4099820

Photo credit to https://www.facebook.com/Bergsfairytalegarden/

I have friends that don't raise chickens and they'll send me photos like this and say "you should get chickens that lay these eggs." And my response is always... from where? Oz?

 

[thistlewick]

I think the dark photos that people post online are misleading, that’s why i show my customers egg pictures taken in direct sunlight. The darker, soft light photos look best, but they also don’t show a realistic color compared to direct sunlight.
Here’s the picture of the amazing eggs that I commented on:
View attachment 4099820

Photo credit to https://www.facebook.com/Bergsfairytalegarden/

I mean I could make a photo look like this in photoshop EASILY lol

Shall we have some fun?

 

[wrathsfarm]

I think the dark photos that people post online are misleading, that’s why i show my customers egg pictures taken in direct sunlight. The darker, soft light photos look best, but they also don’t show a realistic color compared to direct sunlight.
Here’s the picture of the amazing eggs that I commented on:
View attachment 4099820

Photo credit to https://www.facebook.com/Bergsfairytalegarden/

I'm pretty sure I've seen that photo somewhere.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

thank you!! I only have sold a few photos to magazines and it was landscapes -- and before photography I was an illustrator, so all the 'art laws and rules' apply.
Honestly the secret sauce to photography is just the right kind of light and then composition in the frame. That's it.

Is your avi one of your illustrations? If so, it's lovely! (Well, if not, it's lovely anyway, but you know what I mean.)

Did you study art, or is this something you've learned on your own?