TASCAM Wallpaper

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Oooooo! I never knew there was a PE-40C model! 'C' for "compact"! :D
 
The Ghost of FM said:
Those pictures are actually larger then how they appear on this BBS, which now automatically downsizes all images to no more then 800 pixels wide.

BUT, if you right click on the image to save it to your computer, you will get the original full resolution image.

Give it a shot.



And, no. I don't have any leads on an AQ-65. Sorry.

Cheers! :)
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all i got was a 1200x800 file. is that the highest you have ?

thanks
 
fgonza2 said:
all i got was a 1200x800 file. is that the highest you have ?

thanks
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Yup. That's the size it was created at, at that time. I've only recently been making larger 1920x1080 formated images.

Cheers! :)
 
Well, I put out a request yesterday for anyone with a TASCAM 133 3 track cassette deck as I always thought this was a cool looking unit, though its functionality makes it a bit of an oddball item for most home recorders. Anyway, as I feared, no one stepped up to offer up an image of theirs and so I bit the bullet and downloaded the highest resolution image I could find of it on Google and it turned out to come from someone in France who was trying to sell it on a French website for used general merchandise. So I don't know what the guys name is, otherwise I would give him credit for taking the original picture. Anyway, here's a link to his site with the original image;

PriceMinister - Annonce de melvins111 - Achat et vente d'occasion ou neuf - DVD, VHS, Jeux Vidéo, Consoles, PC, CD, Disques, Livres, BD, Vidéos

And here's what I morphed it into with a lot of post processing to try and restore some quality back into what was originally a very badly over exposed shot with a ton of horrible light reflections.



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Full sized 1920x1080 wallpaper formated file below for direct download;
https://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/thefontmeister/133hazywallpaperIIfinal.jpg



Cheers! :)
 
And now for something truly unique!

This is the first official M___ wallpaper of the completely refurbished TASCAM prototype mixer done by our very own Sweetbeats, who was gracious enough to take some higher resolution pictures of with a decent D-SLR camera.



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1920x1080 wallpaper file here;
https://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/thefontmeister/DSC_0857wallpaper.jpg

I'll also have a few others to post over the next couple of days as I work through the various shots that Cory sent to me...so stay tuned! :)

Cheers! :)
 
Hey, Jeff, I just gotta say these are amazing. You really are exceptionally proficient with your editing...what's particularly telling is looking at differences between "scenes" using the same stock image and the differences in how you handle virtual lighting. You do such a fine job integrating the live image into the "virtual" setting. Its very synergetic, which ain't easy when you're probing limits like putting my mixer in space! :D And, BTW, that's where I really started noticing the lighting effects...the blue tint to the jacks...that sort of thing, as compared to the next version of the same shot but transposed over the schematic.

Also, the MIX cover is fun. :) that shot is one of the shots in the first session of pics I took, yes? Before I got some good coaching from you?

I assume you are enjoying the work, but let me reinforce that i'm enjoying it too and appreciating it!
 
sweetbeats said:
Hey, Jeff, I just gotta say these are amazing. You really are exceptionally proficient with your editing...what's particularly telling is looking at differences between "scenes" using the same stock image and the differences in how you handle virtual lighting. You do such a fine job integrating the live image into the "virtual" setting. Its very synergetic, which ain't easy when you're probing limits like putting my mixer in space! :D And, BTW, that's where I really started noticing the lighting effects...the blue tint to the jacks...that sort of thing, as compared to the next version of the same shot but transposed over the schematic.

Also, the MIX cover is fun. :) that shot is one of the shots in the first session of pics I took, yes? Before I got some good coaching from you?

I assume you are enjoying the work, but let me reinforce that i'm enjoying it too and appreciating it!
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Thanks, Cory! :)

I do enjoy doing this very much! It's challenging and rewarding going through the myriad of steps involved in putting each shot together. And rescuing compromised images is also fun, like the Mix cover shot which did make use of a noisier image at less critical resolutions.

About lighting, it's an entire subject of study all on its own and I'm still struggling to hone my skills at working with it. Probably the most challenging aspect of that is how it affects color fidelity. The wood trim is especially challenging in this regard because of light reflections and how different lighting conditions dramatically affect its color rendering. So, in some cases, the color of the wood you were getting with the series of shots you took with your Canon and just the normal room lighting was far more complementary to the wood's color tones then how it appeared with the D-SLR shots taken with what I'm assuming was a 500 watt halogen work/flood lamp, which was great at giving more even light to the shots but just brutal at preserving all the natural tones of those walnut trim panels. So, I still have a ways to go at learning how to deal with those issues in post processing.

Cheers! :)
 
Dang...you're like a graphics ninja!

Indeed it WAS a 500W halogen work lamp! :o

And maybe what you're talking about with the effect of that lighting is part of the reason, in our PM dialog, I was feeling lackluster about the shots...i was happy about the shadow reduction and the general light level, but overall the shots just looked washed out...low contrast. The glowing lamps and the warm wood bring life to how the mixer looks, but the raw pics just look...dull. For future reference might it have been better to just have reduced light and longer exposure times?
 
sweetbeats said:
Dang...you're like a graphics ninja!

Indeed it WAS a 500W halogen work lamp! :o

And maybe what you're talking about with the effect of that lighting is part of the reason, in our PM dialog, I was feeling lackluster about the shots...i was happy about the shadow reduction and the general light level, but overall the shots just looked washed out...low contrast. The glowing lamps and the warm wood bring life to how the mixer looks, but the raw pics just look...dull. For future reference might it have been better to just have reduced light and longer exposure times?
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I am no Ninja, that's for sure! :D

Just someone who really enjoys the hobby!

In hindsight, yeah, the 500 watt flood kind of produced a bit of a flat look because the lighting was so even and free from any hard shadows. And those are good qualities to have in many type of images for the sake of detail.

But lets be realistic here. You don't own photo studio lighting hardware or infinity backdrop staging or a real photography studio the size of a 4 car garage with 16ft ceilings. So don't feel bad! I don't own most of those things either! :laughings:

So, you basically did the best almost anyone could have done with the space and equipment you had on hand to work with. You can certainly try some softer, diffused normal room lighting with longer exposures and leave out the step of trying to place white background sheets and thereby reproduce what you were doing with your Canon powershot camera, with the mixer in it's normal studio environment. And doing so will get you back that nice contrast and color along with the higher resolution that the D-SLR would yield. But doing that doesn't diminish what we accomplished here getting our "catalog quality" shots which are certainly usable. ;)

Cheers! :)
 
Got one processed tonight and this one's from Sweetbeats last series of shots that he posted in his M___ story thread.

This one was difficult to work on because the original shot was very dark. So cutting out the mixer from the original shot was a bit difficult but managed to creep my way around it. The other issue with the original shot was that there was some other equipment blocking the view of the right side of the mixer, so I had to digitally re-create the missing detail by painting it in.

Anyway, here she is....



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1920x1080 wallpaper file below;
https://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/thefontmeister/IMG_3946wallpaper.jpg



Cheers! :)
 
See, that last one has the glowey look to it. I like that. I guess i should think about the ones with the D-SLR as more "clinical". Not that that's how they LOOK after you've worked with them, but the raw shots kind of look that way to me...kinda makes me want to see what I can get with the D-SLR with a tripod and long exposure times in a more natural setting. Obviously the detail and distortion will be much better than the Canon. :)
 
sweetbeats said:
See, that last one has the glowey look to it. I like that. I guess i should think about the ones with the D-SLR as more "clinical". Not that that's how they LOOK after you've worked with them, but the raw shots kind of look that way to me...kinda makes me want to see what I can get with the D-SLR with a tripod and long exposure times in a more natural setting. Obviously the detail and distortion will be much better than the Canon. :)
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I would highly encourage you to do exactly that. :)

Cheers! :)
 
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