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That Bat Poad was really awesome! You’ll have to post pics so I can drool 🙂 He reminded me of the Breyer Halloween horses
Everything Ive gotten from Windstone has looked EXACTLY like the pictures, or even better. So dont worry Pam 🙂 Some things may just be difficult to capture. I’m proud of your photographer (John, is it?) for capturing red and violet in dragons or griffins. I had a hard time when photographing my Ruby dragons to get the pics to look like the dragons do in real life.
Sorry Pam, 😥 but dark pieces on black backgrounds just do not come out well; they disappear into the background. 🙁 The black works great for other pieces, but a lighter background is needed to show up the dark pieces.
If changing backgrounds is a problem, how about just sticking a piece of poster board in front of the black background for at least one picture? It would give us a better idea of the colors.
I know dark pieces need a light background. I have asked John before about using a white background for dark pieces, but he said no. I think he feels that using anything other than a black background would be too un-windstone-like, or something like that, and that people on eBay would not recognize the stuff as official Windstone products. I’m not 100% sure.
Pam Thompson wrote:I know dark pieces need a light background. I have asked John before about using a white background for dark pieces, but he said no. I think he feels that using anything other than a black background would be too un-windstone-like, or something like that, and that people on eBay would not recognize the stuff as official Windstone products. I’m not 100% sure.
Do we need to barrage John with emails? Post a poll? What? Any suggestions?
I have won pieces at lower than expected prices, due largely to the dark pictures I think. That is a plus for me, but a minus for Windstone’s bottom line. There have also been times when I did not bid on pieces based on those really dark pictures. Then someone posts their own pictures with better backgrounds, and what a difference! I have been using my paint program to lessen the amount of shadow in the dark pictures, and it does help; but I think that also distorts the colors.
Didn’t Windstone use only white backgrounds way back when, or am I hallucinating? If the “official look” is the stumbling block, white backgrounds for dark pieces could be phased in, or in addition to, the familiar black ones.
Hmm. What about a grey background? I think Koishii uses that to take photos of her PYOs and such, and her pictures always look nice to me. o_o Very professional and what-have-you. A happy medium? 😀
Btw, when is that Citrine Lap going up? >.> Sounds drool-worthy.
I kinda agree with John. When I check ebay in the evening, I’m so used to seeing the black background, that’s how I know which ones are the Windstone auctions. I think a white background would look great on some of them, but it’s the black that I’m used to looking for.
On the other hand, maybe one of the last pictures could show a non-black background, so there could be a better impression. But it’s the black main picture that I look for each night.skeeterdeee wrote:I kinda agree with John. When I check ebay in the evening, I’m so used to seeing the black background, that’s how I know which ones are the Windstone auctions. I think a white background would look great on some of them, but it’s the black that I’m used to looking for.
On the other hand, maybe one of the last pictures could show a non-black background, so there could be a better impression. But it’s the black main picture that I look for each night.Heh. I just have Windstone’s auctions as a live bookmark. c.c It’s pretty handy.
Citrine Lap will be next week.
Yes, we used to use white backgrounds. I don’t expect that we ever will again though.
I personally like gray backgrounds, but that’s just me.
Pam, are you using a polarizing lens or filter in your photo setup?
I never even noticed that the “official” Windstone auction photos all have black backgrounds. I can identify the “official” listings by title syntax, but I look at the titles first and the photos second. Since the idea is to get as much money as possible (isn’t it?), I think the background should be whatever shows the piece to the best advantage.
skeeterdeee wrote:Pam Thompson wrote:Which Poad™™ did you get?
Da na na na na na na na BAT Poad™! **Batman theme song**
The stripe down her back glows!!That was the first poad I ever bid on, and tried to win. I suppose it was good I didn’t win. But I really wanted to.
Pam Thompson wrote:Citrine Lap will be next week.
Yes, we used to use white backgrounds. I don’t expect that we ever will again though.
So why can’t all the photos be black, with a single white photo thrown in there?
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