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I have been drooling over your photos for some time and, if you wouldn't mind, have a question on your technique. From the lack of shadows on the background, I'm guessing you have the gun out in front of the background. How do you suspend the gun out there? Do you have some sort of holder that you just photoshop out? Idle curiosity, but every time I see your photos, I can't help but wonder how you do it.
Thank you.
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I took an old camera tripod and made and adapter for threaded rods of different (calibers) diameters. I use polished steel for the rod and a nylon bushing at the bottom to protect the crown. Basically the same thing as a good cleaning rod. There are two reflectors I had made at the local sheet metal-shop which I made legs for and painted the inside flat white. Both sets of lights are on a rheostat so I can adjust the light. The background is a window shade I can pull down. 
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Micheal,
Thanks for the education. May I ask, what temperature are the lights?
Thanks
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I have four (4) 3200's which I bring up to power and lower with the rheostat before turning them off.
All pictures are taken with the timer with my hands off the camera and tripod.
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Thank you. Standing them up like that never crossed my mind. Only thing that I came up with was that maybe you hung them by a chamber insert attached to a thin cable passed through the barrel.
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It's hard to take a good picture with anything suspended like that, I've tried, it just never stops moving. I have a couple of hooks in the ceiling for leather straps for taking pictures of things like buttplates and it still moves too much.
I have thought about building something on an angle that will take the rods I built but have not done it.
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Do you have any balance problems with the rifle when it is mounted on the tripod? Any tendency for the thing to tip over?
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Thanks for another educational thread!
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Do you have any balance problems with the rifle when it is mounted on the tripod? Any tendency for the thing to tip over? Not yet. I'm careful when I get something very long and heavy so I lower the tripod a bit. I worry about heavy barreled .22's with the small rod, but no problems to date.
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