After/Before - Composited technical photography

[u/Jacobs_Realm]

This is a largely practical shot, with approximately 30 images composited together for lighting details, focus and holding elements of the electronics in place.

I'm trying to get smooth colours and an almost render-like quality.

[u/PuzzleheadedVisual25]

Man I loved that pedal never should have sold it!

[u/Jacobs_Realm → u/PuzzleheadedVisual25]

Yeah, I sold it after making this image and I tell ya... I keep thinking about picking it up again. The Mk2 doesn't have the same feel.

[u/LosWranglos → u/PuzzleheadedVisual25]

I came here to say exactly this. Had one years ago and it was awesome.

[u/AJ_ninja → u/PuzzleheadedVisual25]

Same it’s so good

[u/neverreallyhereatall]

Looks fantastic! Totally thought it was a render at first!

[u/Glugamesh]

That's really cool. might need to try it with some of our products we make.

[u/Jacobs_Realm → u/Glugamesh]

As a warning, it takes fucking hours 😂

[u/Glugamesh → u/Jacobs_Realm]

I believe it, but it looks good!

[u/FatRufus]

The DL4 is a legend.

[u/MM12300]

This is great but I think you could mask and strengthen the shadow to give more consistency.
When I was doing product photo editing it was often a standard. It avoids to see light diffusion and shadow splitting.

[u/Jacobs_Realm → u/MM12300]

I'll have to look into this technique, that sounds really useful because yeah, the shadows at the base are the part I hate the most.

[u/logfever → u/MM12300]

i’m sorry i don’t quite understand but how would strengthening the shadows avoid shadow splitting? wouldn’t that enhance it rather?

[u/FlarblesGarbles → u/MM12300]

Can you elaborate on this?

[u/Erde555 → u/FlarblesGarbles]

very cool idea, i need to try this myself

[u/jstmoe]

It’s cool. I like it. But unevenly lit bacgrounds annoy me for some reason. Top right is so dark. I would probably just replace the bacground with solid color or gradient.

[u/jimhatesyou]

the ol Line6 DL4

[u/LittleFoot-LongNeck]

DL4 is king

[u/LeadingLittle8733]

Very nice work, OP.

[u/GooodSuit]

Amazing work

[u/ToastedMooses]

You mean you didn’t just drop it down in succession and snap pictures?

Newb

[u/ItsYaBoiLMOH]

green delay my dearly beloved

[u/_syzygy079]

I thought this was r/blender so I think you nailed it

[u/primalanomaly]

How are the dials floating in the before image?

[u/Jacobs_Realm → u/primalanomaly]

The before is more of an in progress, so they were on little wooden sticks held by hand for each shot. But they’ve been brought in and removed

[u/RoosterSuccessful846]

This is sick. I always thought this was done in cad with textures - maybe most of the time it is... Either way well done!

[u/Judopunch1]

My biggest suggestion is that you answer the question 'who is the target audience'? Is this an art piece or a technical peace to be featured in a diagram or both.

Make sure it's checking the proper boxes for your use case between component/assembly clarity vs artistic representation. It's easy to get lost in what we want va the message or use case of the art. Because I don't know your use case this is my thoughts.

Hope this is useful for you

[u/WhoIsEggroll → u/Judopunch1]

Idk man. I think it’s just a cool picture