Robert Sherlock
Member
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:
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:
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:
This is a Cigar chrome pen made with a blank with pinecones cast in red, white and blue resin.
Pen 4:
Choose Your Weapon
Pen 5:
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:
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:
'Spalted Beech Trio Of Gentlemen'
Pen 8:
"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:
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:
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.
Here we go:
Pen 1:
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:
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:
This is a Cigar chrome pen made with a blank with pinecones cast in red, white and blue resin.
Pen 4:
Choose Your Weapon
Pen 5:
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:
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:
'Spalted Beech Trio Of Gentlemen'
Pen 8:
"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:
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:
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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