Glock 43
Glock 43 with Trijicon HD Tritium Night Sights.
Three lights used. Silver reflectors to bounce in some highlights.
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Charles Mercier
German contemporary art museum
Just a few shots - not of the art but the building interior!
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Last: Aug 03, 2026
Bartek M. Wojtkunski
Snowfall, Leon
A stone shepherd's cabin with an orange roof beside a high-altitude lake in the province of Leon during an unexpected late spring snowfall.
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Last: Aug 03, 2026
Dean Wilson
The Sun and the Moon: Edited to add last photo
I wanted to see how my 50 year old Canon FD 800mm f/5.6 s.s.c. would handle photographing both the Sun and the Moon.
1 - Revealing sunspots. (Square cropped)
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Last: Aug 02, 2026
Hector Reyes
Sterling in silhouette
I held a lighting workshop recently. Sterling was the model. I rarely shoot silhouettes but I wanted to incorporate that arch into a shot. Backlighting became an obvious choice.
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Good work Dan.
With so many textures one could go nuts lighting it but your minimalist approach works.
A few things spring to mind.
First thing is, I might stomp the blacks a bit to help pop it and bring some separation. Next issue is a seemingly little one but in the world of product work it is key, and that is geometry.
The last thing is textures. I've actually done quite a bit of work for Glock, both in the US and in Austria, and I know how proud they are of the textures on the frame. So in this example I've brought that out a tad. I hope you don't mind but I tweaked your shot a bit to illustrate what I'm talking about.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks Julian!
A few things on my end.
I purposefully moved the levels so that the blacks weren't true black to give it a more matte look. The adjustment you made looks like mine did before I added the levels adjustment.
I don't understand your comment about geometry and how it relates to this image? Can you clarify?
I agree that the texture could have been enhanced a bit more.
BTW: I am a product photographer for Amazon's largest studio in the Jewelry and Watch department, so it's what I work on almost every day of the work week.
Hello Dan,
My hunch was that you had your hands in Product work. Cool.
Yea the blacks did punch up the frame a bit so I pulled some out of the side view -could've pulled a bit more.
The geometry comment and adjustment was to the side view. I simply leveled it so it was truly horizontal. Not a big deal. Keep up the good work.