Pen Photo Poll - 2017 Bash

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2017 Birthday Bash Pen Photo Contest Poll - Choose ONE

  • Pen 1

    Votes: 21 19.4%
  • Pen 2

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • Pen 3

    Votes: 4 3.7%
  • Pen 4

    Votes: 7 6.5%
  • Pen 5

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Pen 6

    Votes: 6 5.6%
  • Pen 7

    Votes: 12 11.1%
  • Pen 8

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Pen 9

    Votes: 24 22.2%
  • Pen 10

    Votes: 3 2.8%
  • Pen 11

    Votes: 27 25.0%

  • Total voters
    108
  • Poll closed .
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We have 11 entries in the Pen Photo contest this year. There will be one round of voting and the poll will stay open for 3 days. You get to choose one pen. The picture is BELOW the title (Pen *). Click the thumbnail to view a larger picture.

Here we go:

Pen 1:
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Pen is made from stabilized amboyna burl on a Jr. Gent II kit.
It is photographed in a small, nylon photo booth set up in my shop. The pen is on a mirror, resting on a small piece of the leftover blank. The back wall of the booth has a gray to black gradient background. Lighting is just the ambient shop lighting.



Pen 2:
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I'd like to share a photo of a pen I just finished for my best friend. Taken in our new portable photo studio.



Pen 3:
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This is a Cigar chrome pen made with a blank with pinecones cast in red, white and blue resin.



Pen 4:
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Choose Your Weapon



Pen 5:
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I took this photograph using a shallow depth of field to focus on the blank. The blank is one of my alumilite pours fitted on an over/under shotgun pen.



Pen 6:
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This is a 30 cal in chrome. The wood is Buckeye Burl, obtained from Rocky and stabilized with cactus juice. The Buckeye gives a camo look, which to my mind works on the 30 cal style. I used a light tent, lit from both sides for the shot. Camera was a Nikon D90 with a 60mm 2.8 lens. Picture was taken at 200, f9.



Pen 7:
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'Spalted Beech Trio Of Gentlemen'



Pen 8:
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"This is a photo of a multi color tiger wrapped chrome eclipse. I must have taken 50 different photos using the limited manual adjustments,ugly every time.So I fell back to the auto setting without a half assed backround.I took the pic at 12mega pixels which was 4000x3000 pixels,then trimmed it in camera too fill the screen.Using IrfanView I auto adjusted the colors,resized it to 800x600 pixels and increased the contrast by 30.Adjusting the contrast really helped bring out the colors I couldn't capture with a straight pic,not the cameras fault,I just stink."


Pen 9:
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This picture is of an Executive Pen made from Amboyna Burl straight from Australia! The prop is a slab of cottonwood burl from my great uncle in Arizona. I set it on it's side for a different approach. The pen blank has not been stabilized, so the color is completely natural. I finished this one with a new finish I'm trying out - Solarez UV cured grain sealer and the 2 coats of Solarez Gloss Poly Resin. Polished through 12000 grit micromesh and then some one-step. Then buffed to a glass-like shine.



Pen 10:
Pen10.jpg
This is a Jr Morgan chrome kit paired with a Australian Brown Mallee burl-Stabilised/dyed blank. I love capturing the beauty of the blank and hardware. I used my Canon g12 in manual mode.I shoot in Raw. I put it in a light box and take the pic. I do some slight adjustments in Lightroom.



Pen 11: Green and Black M3 Titanium Mokume blank on* a Gold TN & Rhodium Nouveau Sceptre BP V2 Pen. Exposure*was 30 seconds at f14, ISO 100 with color temp set at 9800K in RAW format under two 60w black lights. Camera: Canon 7D with a Canon EF-S 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 zoom lens. Used a tripod, Image Stabilizer OFF, mirror lock-up feature ON and remote shutter release control to take the picture.
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mredburn

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Voting is fixed! :biggrin::eek: Oops maybe thats not quite the right way to say it.:biggrin:

How about I have fixed the problem with the votes showing......:rolleyes:
 
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