Amboyna Burl Elegant Beauty

[Jmhoff10500]

Here is a great piece of Amboyna Burl that really had some great figure. I just got my new Canon Rebel T1i so i have been experimenting with it and my new photo Tent set up... Please, please, please critique every possible thing you can from the pen to the pictures so i can perfect the other half of that blank and really get a grasp on photography, Maybe some of my work can even end up on the home screen!!!:worship::worship::worship:. Thanks for looking!

 

[ldb2000]

Are you really sure you want a critique? I hope so .... you asked for it so here goes .
Loose the pictures in the box , it looks like a coffin , the hold down covers way too much of the blank so you really can't see the wood . The exposure and focus looks good but the pen should be your center point . The second pic is composed wrong the box being at an angle just looks wrong . Again the focus and exposure looks ok but the box is the main attraction when it should be the pen . The third pic is too dark and the lack of light has shifted the white balance . Photos #4 and 5 have an ok exposure but there is no depth of field , the pen is in focus on one end and out of focus on the other , try not to shoot with the camera set to automatic . Also composure on the last one is wrong , never shoot with the nib facing up (away from you) like that .
The pen looks good , the blank is wonderful and a nice match to the kit , the finish looks good too . The problem is it looks like you have a major problem with fit . The blank is badly out of round , especially at the finial end , the nib end is too but not as bad . Either your bushings are bad or your mandrel is , or you have an alignment problem .
Sorry but you did ask .

 

[JBCustomPens]

Nice pen. A true beauty.

Do you have a photo tent, because I see some shadows. Just my .02.

 

[Jmhoff10500]

Sweet! That's Perfect!!! I need a couple of these and i will be set! Thanks!

Are you really sure you want a critique? I hope so .... you asked for it so here goes .
Loose the pictures in the box , it looks like a coffin , the hold down covers way too much of the blank so you really can't see the wood . The exposure and focus looks good but the pen should be your center point . The second pic is composed wrong the box being at an angle just looks wrong . Again the focus and exposure looks ok but the box is the main attraction when it should be the pen . The third pic is too dark and the lack of light has shifted the white balance . Photos #4 and 5 have an ok exposure but there is no depth of field , the pen is in focus on one end and out of focus on the other , try not to shoot with the camera set to automatic . Also composure on the last one is wrong , never shoot with the nib facing up (away from you) like that .
The pen looks good , the blank is wonderful and a nice match to the kit , the finish looks good too . The problem is it looks like you have a major problem with fit . The blank is badly out of round , especially at the finial end , the nib end is too but not as bad . Either your bushings are bad or your mandrel is , or you have an alignment problem .
Sorry but you did ask .

 

[Jmhoff10500]

I do have a tent but i was playing around with the lights inside of the walls instead of outside of them to see what they can do...

Nice pen. A true beauty.

Do you have a photo tent, because I see some shadows. Just my .02.

 

[ZanderPommo]

i agree with all of the above. beautiful pen, great match to the kit, all the pics looked good to me but none were perfect. i think if you had the second to last pic focused on the whole pen it woulda been sweet. i agree the box is ugly compared to the pen and makes the pen, and the picture much less impressive

 

[alawoodman]

I was thinking you didn't take enough off the finial end, but on closer look, you could have a bent mandrel. I don't think it would be the bushings, unless you're using the wrong one. (Worn bushings usually result in the cut being too much, not too little.)

 

[ldb2000]

I was thinking you didn't take enough off the finial end, but on closer look, you could have a bent mandrel. I don't think it would be the bushings, unless you're using the wrong one. (Worn bushings usually result in the cut being too much, not too little.)

I was thinking miss drilled bushings , not drilled on center and it is causing the blank to be turmed off center . Have you used these bushings before ?

 

[Crashmph]

Nice job on the finish but the finial end dose look out of round or proud.

Is that one of the kits from me? looks good with that burl.