First round bowl?

[Don Nurmela]

That sounds weird, but it is true. I finally waited the requisite month for a DNA soaked Spalted Maple rough out. Maybe this one will stay round. I final turned and finished it today. I used a homebrew of shellac and Howards feed and wax and bealle buff system. I am also working on my photography skills and need to bite the bullet and get a graduated background (can you say vortex?). I have studio that I do some portrait work in, but this is a whole new world. You don't have the get the bowl to smile and the details are endless:confused:
Should I fill the knot holes in the bottom and if so with what?
Has anyone done HDR high dynamic range photos of their work?


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[Jerry Marcantel]

[QUOTE=Don Nurmela;1636384] Has anyone done HDR high dynamic range photos of their work?


Don, that's a beautiful bowl. For being color blind, I see nice color there. The spalting is gorgeous..... What is HDR photography????? Jerry (in Tucson)

[David E Keller]

Congrats on a round one, Don! The bowl looks great, and I prefer my knot holes unfilled... It's just a matter of preference. Can't help you with the photography, but others here will chime in. Keep 'em comin'.

[Don Nurmela]

Here is link to wikipedia on HDR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging
You need software like this http://www.hdrsoft.com/ to do it. I seemed like my photos needed more range and was just wondering if anyone has tried it.

[Jon Lanier]

Bowl look great. I love 'spalted.' But where did you get the 'required month for a DNA soak?' I've never soaked a spalted bowl for more than 3 days... and thats because I forgot about it.

[Don Nurmela]

I meant dry time after the soak. I soaked it overnight, I think. I probably have 25 rough outs getting about ready.

[John Keeton]

Nice bowl, Don! Beautiful wood, too. You have probably forgotten more about photography than I know, but the big thing about photographing turnings is to get detail and depth of field. With portraits, one doesn't usually see extremely crisp details - more filtered (I guess that's what it is??). But here, you will want to see a lot of detail requiring depth and focus.

I have no idea what HDR is?!?!

[Michelle Rich]

astounding wood & wow those walls are thin!

[bob svoboda]

Very nice bowl from some outstanding wood! I'm a big fan of letting holes be holes.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really a nice bowl out of some very nice wood. Nicely done.

[Steve Schlumpf]

I like your bowl! Pretty wood and sure did get it thin!

Have not played with HDR photos but there is no arguing with the results. Not sure if you would actually see a benefit when photographing your turnings but if you already have the equipment and software - why not give it a try!

[Jack Tyree]

I have not used HDR to photograph any of my turnings, but I have used it and it is quite interesting. You will either like it or you wont. A neat site to read about it and look at some of the possibilities is http://www.stuckincustoms.com/. Since you all like to see pictures (and I realize this is not a photo site), I'll include a couple of examples. The second one is a shot I took for America's Packard Museum's Christmas card and the first is a shot from last summer, from behind the museum. You will be able to see the difference in the results which are possible.