I’m not sure what you mean with the “logo work” and “define the wheel more” comments. The other ones are just photoshop magic stuff that I noticed (except “more contrast,” which seemed fine to me) but frankly I was too sick of photoshop at that point to bother with. I seriously hate dicking around in photoshop, the less the better. It’s just so…freaking….TEDIOUS. I’d really rather just hand off the post duties to someone else and just focus on taking pictures.
If I had any tolerance for photoshop I would have taken a “lights out” shot and just let the glow from the lights burn in so I could composite them into the final. As it was I tried to do it in camera by firing the strobes and then keeping the shutter open to let the mouse lights burn in.
If you meant the logo on the mouse pad didn’t have to be included, I could have fixed the border issue at the same time by shooting closer to the middle of the pad, but I figured since the mouse and mouse pad are from the same manufacturer it made a neat shot to get the logo in.
The mouse wheel looks pretty much exactly the same as it does in real life. And actually a good sight better than the mousewheel in Razer’s own product photos (click here then click on “Gallery”), which show it as a solid overexposed white with a red glow around it, though they get the side lights better because they use only overhead lighting and aren’t getting specular reflections off the rubber side rails.
One area both could do better would be in lighting the underside. If I hadn’t been trying to get the mousepad in the shot I could have shot on a white background and masked in a black background. That would have let the underside reflect the white and give it definition.
Meh, maybe I’ll try it again.
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