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Posts: 3,177I HATE BEARS TODAY
All i want to do is take my new Moonlings photograph but do you think i can do it?
NO!!!!!
I've tried everything i can think of to get a decent pic of the little begger but i can't do it!
HOW do you take a photograph of a black and red bear??????
The red looks day-glo orange - the black looks sooooooooo black!!!!!
I have tried photoshop and i have tried different lighting, camera settings, backgrounds, etc etc and i still can't take a decent pic of him
:twisted: :pray: :doh: 
Any hints?????????
Penny - going quietly mad in the 26 degree heat of normally cold grey Olde England
I hear ya Pen ! I had that problem with one of my bears yesterday ! Drives you crazy doesn't it 
. I can't offer any help on this one other than trying different backgrounds that you may not think would work. I'm sure you've done that already tho ! I hope you get the little beggar to co-operate !
Oh, and send the heat over here. It's rainy and icky again today. I think I'll build an ark !
Maybe this will cheer you up ! :crackup:
Pandy Potter BearsHave you tried a mid blue background? Other than that go have a sitdown in the garden and chill!!!! I finally got a tripod for my camera...from the pound shop no less at Telford. Now if only I could get my butt into gear and make a bear.... :hug:
Bears-a-Bruin!I don't about Penny, but that picture of George certainly cheered ME up..... 
Was that a pic of George I saw?......... 
He's looking a bit silly there!
I wish I had some advice for you Penny. I haven't been brave enough yet to make a bear with such a color combination, and maybe I never will if it's such an ordeal to get a good pic! 
Good luck with it Dearest PenPen. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that your little moonling soon cooperates! :hug: :hug:
:hug:
Tracy
Can't really help with the photo, but can sympathise with the heat! It's glorious in my garden today, so I've taken my workbox out to the patio table. I made a red and black bear a while back ... I took my pic in the garden ... not sure if I still have it ... off to have a hunt now ... aha! Found it! Well, the colours are okayish so maybe a green background might work?
Posts: 3,177Firstly.......................thank you all for bothering to reply to my little tantrum.........
Secondly...............yep, i have tried all the different colour backgrounds i have - and believe me i have loads humf!!!!
Thirdly and most importantly................
Which means we are DESTINED to be together - two idiots together, a marriage made in heaven don't cha think???
Thanks for the piccy Tammy - i'm sending you some hot sunny British weather!
:hug:
I'm plodding on with the pics - but i think i'll take an hours break and take Amandas advice - go sit in the sunshine while it lasts.
Thank You All 
Penny
Irenours-bearsHi Penny 
. Maybe you can change the setting of your camera to adapt it to your light? i can set mine on: daylight, tungstene, allogene, automatique and so on. I find that my pics are better without flash too or zoom.
I wait till abot seven and take the pictures on my now famously shabby window sills with the sun behind me.The clours seem truer at that time.Good luck mrs Grump!!!
Diane xxx
p.s can't wait to see a wee moonling in dayglo orange!!!
Posts: 3,177Cheeky Moo wrote wait till abot seven and take the pictures on my now famously shabby window sills with the sun behind me.The clours seem truer at that time.Good luck mrs Grump!!!
Diane xxx
p.s can't wait to see a wee moonling in dayglo orange!!!
Well thank you for the tip Diane but i'm not so sure about the rest!
Thanks Irene, but i did try all those things. It's so tricky!
Paula - that is a lovely bear and he did come out well did'nt he? I must try harder.
Penny :hug:
You'll get there Penny! I like Diane's suggestion ... time of day can make a big difference for the outdoor shots. Depends if you fancy an outdoors or a studio pic though. Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing him!!
WienPenny, it´s ok! The day is nearly over 
*giggle*
I don´t wanna stress this word too often: LIGHT TENT...*fom under the table*: do you have that? If not...I sat my wee teddies into a plastikbox which looks like milk glass and let lamps pour their light from the sides.
Have a smashing evening!
Gaby :hug:
ToadBriarmaybe if you shoot him outside in light shade, the coolness of the shade
will tame down that 'day glo orange' effect. Not that it will help highlight the
black at all! what I'm used to doing to shoot black is sun sun sun -
which is inflaming your red! Oh no I am no help at all, am I
he sounds awfully neato, tho - can't wait to see him!
Can't wait to see the little guy when you finally get a picture of him. I find that when it is sunny out, I set the bears on a table covered with a length of fur (different color than the bear) inside the garage out of direct sunlight and take the picture there without flash.....sometimes I have to lighten or darken the background, but it usually works.
When I read the topic of this post, I was shocked! and Horrified, but now that I read it, I understand.......\
pandamac
Apple Dumpling DesignsMaybe this naughty little moonling doesn't want his/her picture taken...perhaps he/she is messing with your camera. I suspect these moonlings of yours have that ability.
WienShantell,ROFL.....you might be right :crackup:
Gaby
WienOopsie! Sorry Penny, no harm intended...
so maybe that helps :crackup: 
:hug:
Gaby
Posts: 3,177Maybe this naughty little moonling doesn't want his/her picture taken...perhaps he/she is messing with your camera. I suspect these moonlings of yours have that ability.
Yep, i think that you are dead right there Shantelle :dance:
He is now added to the Bears for Sale forum girls.
The pics are not perfect but i have lost the will to live and refuse to be mucked about by a 8.5" bear ANY LONGER!
I ended up dragging him with the light tent into the bathroom! How weird that it worked - maybe he was just being nosy and wanted to see all over the house?
Penny
PottersHouse BearsIsn't it just crazy how some bears are not photogenic? I thought that was mostly a human thing. Maybe our bears are more human than we care to admit.
Posts: 3,177Maybe our bears are more human than we care to admit.
Yep this one certainly has a mind of his own and won't give me any peace...............which is why he now offered for auction on Bid4Bears with NO RESERVE!
He is a real little rascal and i have had anough of the little tike - he's all yours girls - i beg you....take him off me hands
:pray: :pray: :pray:
Penny :dance:
LuxembearsPenny, I agree with what was said about taking pictures outdoors. This may be your best bet. Then adjust the color temperature in your photo editing program if you need to. I think red is one of the most difficult colors to photo graph.
Good luck....and declutter you mind of that George fellow! :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
Posts: 3,177Cheeky Chops Judi wrote: Good luck....and declutter your mind of that George fellow!
Now Judi - you know i can't function without my romantic daydreams of George getting all fruity with me. Can you imagine how boring life would be without a bit of imaginary hankypanky
:crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
Penny :hug:
LuxembearsNow Judi - you know i can't function without my romantic daydreams of George getting all fruity with me.
Oh my goodness...this sounds EXACTLY like my sister....
SO TRUE! Daydream away, my friend :crackup: :dance: :hug:
Posts: 3,177Oh my goodness...this sounds EXACTLY like my sister....
Oh good, i am pleased to be one of the Judi family - as long as i'm not one of the cows :crackup:
