All About Pocket Knives

Perry, beautiful knives and extremely clear shots, love it.

Trevor, thats an awesome pics.
Your telling a story with the set up, I really enjoy that. Great job and keep clickin'.

Here are a couple I had fun with. I've found that shooting against a white background is more difficult than using a darker back drop, and I found that I like art deco. I posed the knife against an art deco picture in a book (Romana de la Salle painted by Tamara de Lempicka in 1929). My wife thinks it represents violence against women, but I think it shows the hidden steel, sharp wit and strength my wife has. I used Paint Shop to adjust the contrast and color intensity, which I do with most of my pics. The knife is an Old Dominion club knife, 3 blade trapper, made by Bulldog in 1985.

Thanks Caleb! Hey couple of great shots there Rustle! I'm havin some fun today. Man I want to find some more of these solid cells in a bad way! There's gotta be more out there but they rarely show up.

Rustle, I'm really likin' the throwback feel there, (and your prose is pretty good too!)

… and Perry, those cells are nothing short of stunning!

Here's a couple pretty simple shots, but I am pleased with these two new additions …


~ Edge

Paul just simply KILLER SHOTS my friend! Don't know how these could get any better.

Still playin around, I have had a long week of singin and need this!

On Edge wrote:Here's a couple pretty simple shots, but I am pleased with these two new additions …

Is your new 73 #12?

Thanks Perry - I'm enjoying getting back into it …

Man, those cells are just jumping off the page - beautiful!

Doug, yup - the #25 Appaloosa Jack I'd been holdin' off on, and a Primitive Bone 73 that I just happened to see right after it got posted …

Edge, that leather shows off the appaloosa and primitive bone knives real well!
Singin, it IS relaxing to try different arrangements and see what works. Your last pic with the blades all open is my favorite of the cells, its kind of like a box full of puppies (or saber-tooth kitties!) all cuddling together.
JTS is always saying to "tell a story"; I'm not much of a story teller, but I can show some stories I have read over and over again. And the glass I drank from while reading!

Well done again Rustle and thank you Paul for the nice comments. Gotta try some like your guys are doin! See if I can find some backdrops for shots tomorrow.

Here's a first attempt with an old 1929 Chicago Mail Order catalog. I'm pretty sure these knives came from this period.

Now for goofy shots!

How bout a little Spin and Marty!

Knice work Perry!

We should start an online knife photography store........

Yes, good work! That is interesting the way you made the knives a part of the other picture.

I always have trouble with the focus!I also have trouble with resizeing my photos!Are they a setting on the camera to adjust this?

Your camera should have an auto focus option, just about everyone does. If your camera is not focusing it could be to pour lighting, or a malfunction in the camera itself. I am no expert so I couldn't be sure what the problem is there. If you load your pics to a photo storage website, like photobucket.com, you should be able to edit the sizes easily.

Ky,

If you don't want to resize your pics, look in the camera menu under "MP". Lower the MPs ,
this will change the size. Are you using the Macro setting?

Tim

IrFanView is a free download and it is a great little program to work with photos.

Wow. Hadn't thought about IrFanview for a dog's age - used it many a time myself - great recommendation Chief!

You guys just get better & better,with your photo skills _____wishin' I could get better,but too lazy,to try

You're doing just great Monk. Any better and those babies would jump off the monitor.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat pics Monk!! Doin' just fine!

uhhh, Monk you are doin just fine man!

photo light box made from a box

i have been trying to get my pics right i made carboard box