1 Kilt 10 Looks : A Visual Guide to Formality in Highland Attire

[Weasel Mender]

Gentlemen,
I stand in awe at your sartorial splender

Weasel

[Bugbear]

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[Detroitpete]

All I have to say is ...

OUSTANDING thread gentleman! THIS is the kind of 'help' that only a place like Xmarks can give ya.

You both almost make me believe even I'd look good in a Montrose Doublet with jabot and cuffs :-)

[Kilted Rogue]

Thank you guys for that very informative post. Now if i may ask for just one more bit of info from you both. how do you both take such great pictures. i am not talking of you dashing looks, more so the full body photo's. Do you use a tripod or is there someone else taking the shots.

thank you

Billy

[McMurdo]

We both use Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras and a tripod with a 10 second delay. Jamie took his pictures over three days between 8:30 and 9:30 AM to keep the lighting about the same. I took mine about 2:00-3:00 PM for the same reason, I use a large tripod while Jamie used a smaller portable one. I'd say you really need the 10 second delay.

[fluter]

W I use a large tripod while Jamie used a smaller portable one. I'd say you really need the 10 second delay.

Even if you have a helper/photographer, the tripod is useful. It's been determined experimentally that most kilt photos look best if the camera is about waist height. (I believe that Hamish carried out most of the experiments)

[Kilted Rogue]

We both use Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras and a tripod with a 10 second delay. Jamie took his pictures over three days between 8:30 and 9:30 AM to keep the lighting about the same. I took mine about 2:00-3:00 PM for the same reason, I use a large tripod while Jamie used a smaller portable one. I'd say you really need the 10 second delay.

Thank you for the details .

I always have a hard time getting head to toe in the shot, and it still be close enough to see all the accessories.

[Panache]

Thank you for the details .

I always have a hard time getting head to toe in the shot, and it still be close enough to see all the accessories.

KR,

I am not a very accomplished photographer but here is exactly what I did to get a good full body shot.

First I set my camera on a small table and focused it on the white bench that stood about 15 feet away.

Next I set the 10 second delay timer and walked over to the bench to pose.

I would do this three times and pick the clearest / best photo

Most of the time the photo was off center but this doesn't matter, all I want is clear photo that has my whole body in it.

After uploading my pictures to my computer I use the simple program that comes with the Cyber-shot camera to do a little editing.

First I crop the image so that I am centered and get rid of the large expanse of background around me and then I play with the colors a little bit to darken the picture (colors seem to wash out a bit when photographed outside). If the picture has any red eye I remove it last and save the picture.

I hope this was of help

Cheers

Jamie

[McMurdo]

If you notice with my shots there is the tree I was standing in front of, I made sure that the tree was more or less centered, I have a red eye reducing feature on my Sony Cybershot so I make sure that is set. I also make sure the camera is not set on the macro feature, then I set the 10 second timer and pose in front of the tree, if there is any editing needed I take them into photoshop.

[Semiomniscient]

Looks great. I think the "very casual" could even go so far informal as t-shirts. I generally wear my Ardbeg t-shirt if I'm going to wear my kilt to Scottish Country Dance class.