The Official Splashed Pot Showcase Thread of PCF! (5 Viewers)

[anstossfreak]

Where did you find these? They are beautiful.

It was a purchase in China from alibaba.com. I have seen these plaques in a promotional video from Standard Plaques and message the seller. Had to buy 100 plaques and I divided them as follows: 70x $1Ks & 30x & 5Ks.

 

[Nex]

Is there a proper way to take these photos? How do I get my camera to focus on all of the chips?

Depends on what options you have with whatever camera you have available to you. Photography is another rabbit hole you can dive very deep into.

Phone cameras usually are very restricted in the ways you can control what they do. Maybe not so much with a 4-figure phone, but compared to a dedicated camera still lacking. Mostly they use a depth sensor and then mangle the front-to-back-in-focus pic they snap to artificially blur the portions of the photo that are farther away from the lens, which usually looks notably different to real out-of-focus blur you get when taking photos with a sensor and lens combination that produce a very shallow depth of field when shot wide open*. There's no way around that to make the result look more realistic, this is nothing you can perfectly fake with postprocessing only. Can't defeat the laws of optics.

*If you own such a setup, the best tip I can give you is: Don't necessarily shoot with the largest aperture you can use. You want to have the chip stack sharp front to back (not only the frontmost part) and only then have focus blur creep in for the more distant parts of the image for good-looking results. If you have no control over or are limited with the aperture, but instead can zoom with your lens (or you have another lens with a longer focal length) then try to adjust the zoom and camera distance to the subject simultaneously. Longer focal length at same aperture results in shallower depth of field.

 

[jamesjkim]

 

[grandmeme]

 

[Mushmanchuman]

 

[Rockrash]

 

[daddylongleg6666]

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Where did you get these plaques? They are really nice.

 

[RocAFella1]

Thread needs some Agave...

 

[Pinball]

Where did you get these plaques? They are really nice.

Matsui

 

[Fran]

 

[RocAFella1]

Thread needs some Agave...

@Josh Kifer @BigLumber

 

[Josh Kifer]

@Josh Kifer @BigLumber

 

[Syzygyy]

 

[SixSeven]

For my 500th post -

 

[daddylongleg6666]

Just finished my first custom Pauslon set - had to get some splashed pot pics

 

[Carnth]

Just finished my first custom Pauslon set - had to get some splashed pot pics
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Nice inlay designs!

 

[Han Trinh]

HSI 5K & 25K's. Some of the most gorgeous oversized chips ever.

 

[Himewad]

 

[Bobb59]

 

[Anthrax]

 

[doublebooyah85]

 

[MC_CPA]

Hi Friends, how do I avoid 'motion blur' when I take photos? My phone camera can't seem to focus on all the chips in the foreground and instead captures specific chips.

 

[LeGold]

Hi Friends, how do I avoid 'motion blur' when I take photos? My phone camera can't seem to focus on all the chips in the foreground and instead captures specific chips.


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Not sure I understand the issue. But to get most of them in focus, make sure the phone is level with the surface, and take the photo from a greater distance.

 

[Carnth]

Hi Friends, how do I avoid 'motion blur' when I take photos? My phone camera can't seem to focus on all the chips in the foreground and instead captures specific chips.

Tap on the screen of your phone where you want it to focus.
Motion blur tends to happen when the chips don't have enough light. So, it helps if you have an external light source. For example, a work light that you can setup.
The sun is the best light source you can get. You can setup a portable table outside and get some good pics.

 

[Nex]

This isn't motion blur, stemming from accidental movement of the camera during recording or movement of the subject.
This is too shallow depth of field.
Phone cameras normally have such tiny sensors and focal length that they should, in theory, be able to capture everything tack sharp from front to back, unless you're moving in really close. If you have multiple lenses to choose from, pick the one with the lowest optical zoom, i.e. largest field of view. Also phone camera lenses sometimes are pretty crappy and will slightly blur everything near the corners no matter what you do. There's no fix for that except taking a better camera/lens. But maybe your lens just is a little dirty - give it a gentle wipe with a microfiber cloth. Oh, and check if you have something turned on or on auto that's called portrait mode. If yes, turn it off. And if you have a dedicated macro lens, don't use that either.

 

[Rakrul]

Nex already explained what (depth of field) so here's a link explaining how DoF works. Note that this is for "actual" cameras, phone cameras has to follow the same physics but you won't always have access to these settings and phone cameras compete for best pictures in dark lit rooms, allowing you to see more details in the dark but at a shallow DoF making close up pictures like chips partly out of focus. Edit: Solution? Lot's of light.

https://photographylife.com/what-is-depth-of-field

 

[Fran]

 

[Cratty]

Had to go back and take pics of all today.. @Fran is a bad influence.

 

[Wheeler Assembly]

Had to go back and take pics of all today.. @Fran is a bad influence.

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Those Casino Royales are ridiculous…. So classy. So vintage. So !

 

[LeGold]