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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 14:03:18 GMT -9
This is pre-discovery of paper miniatures, so it contains some old metal minis. The school librarian where I work decided to have a fantasy book month last year and set up a display case. Since she had seen the papercraft building I keep on my desk, she asked if I had a few she could use. We set up a small diorama of cardstock buildings, a ship and a few figures/3D printed dungeon parts for the month. Several students asked about where I got the buildings and how hard they were to build. Please excuse the glare on the display case, we could not get the lighting right.
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Post by jeffgeorge on Feb 25, 2019 20:01:21 GMT -9
Fantastic! As a former teacher, I think it's great when teachers and librarians find ways like this to engage kids with reading!
Regarding the glare issue: When you have to take a picture through a window or glass pane, try this:
If you can kill the room lights, do that and use your camera's flash, BUT be sure to shoot at an angle to the glass. That way, the reflection of the flash will bounce off in the other direction, and not show up on the glass. (You may need to experiment with camera positioning to find out how much of an angle is necessary--the bigger the window, the further from perpindicular you'll need to be. Backing up helps, too, if the flash is bright enough.)
If you can't turn the room lights off, get high. No, not like that! I mean, get up higher than the window and shoot down! This is essentially the same trick as shooting from an angle, but the angle is up; it moves the glare out of the center of the picture. It helps to wear dark clothes or have a friend or two hold up a big, dark cloth, in front of you to hide reflections.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2019 5:14:35 GMT -9
Fantastic! As a former teacher, I think it's great when teachers and librarians find ways like this to engage kids with reading! Regarding the glare issue: When you have to take a picture through a window or glass pane, try this: If you can kill the room lights, do that and use your camera's flash, BUT be sure to shoot at an angle to the glass. That way, the reflection of the flash will bounce off in the other direction, and not show up on the glass. (You may need to experiment with camera positioning to find out how much of an angle is necessary--the bigger the window, the further from perpindicular you'll need to be. Backing up helps, too, if the flash is bright enough.) If you can't turn the room lights off, get high. No, not like that! I mean, get up higher than the window and shoot down! This is essentially the same trick as shooting from an angle, but the angle is up; it moves the glare out of the center of the picture. It helps to wear dark clothes or have a friend or two hold up a big, dark cloth, in front of you to hide reflections. I am support (IT) in the school, but I do what I can to help faculty with any special projects they might have...and when it crosses with one of my hobbies, even better! If they ever do a sci-fi one, I plan to offer some of the Where No Man Has Gone Before paper mini's and room builds I found on this site as well as some of my past starship builds. Thanks for the info on the lighting! We couldn't turn off the lights, don't have the strange little key they use on the switch panels in the hallway, but I should have thought of standing on a ladder....basic physics. Duh, I am getting slower mentally as I get older BUT I also have cooler toys now, so it kinda evens out!
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Post by jeffgeorge on Feb 26, 2019 8:16:17 GMT -9
I also can't over-emphasize the importance of having everything that would be reflected in the glass either be dark, or covered with dark material. Frankly, a big sheet of black fabric is the photographer's best friend. If you can cover the field that is reflected in the glass with black, it's effectively the same as turning out the ambient light, which is where any reflection other than that of your flash comes from.
Woot for in-school IT support! My last year in the classroom was as the computer tech teacher, and I was expected to spend all my prep time solving the other teachers' hardware and software problems. If we'd have had real IT support, I would have been a better teacher for my actual students.
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Post by alloydog on Feb 28, 2019 10:29:05 GMT -9
Neat! I hope it pulls a few souls away from the dreaded internet...
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