Capture Cutting Board

I am attempting to capture a star shaped cutting board and getting nowhere.  I first laid the cutting board flat and rotated it, capturing from a variety of heights, which yielded poor results.  I then propped the cutting board on its edge and rotated it (image below), which also yielded poor results.

Any suggestions on how best to capture an object like this? Although it is highly symmetrical, it has enough differentiation that I would expect it to work, specially with a hanger taped to the back.

Many thanks for your ideas and suggestions.

Best Regards,

Edward

Hi Edward,

I guess the difficulties you’re experiencing result from the relatively small edge of the board. And if what you show us is a 1:1 source image, then there are almost no recognizable features on those edges since. I think it is due to heavy smoothing. Also, do you rotate the object or move around it with the camera? If the first, then I am pretty certain that you have too many competing features on the background. Only masking will help you there.

Hello Götz

Thank you for your comments. I have the object on a rotation plate and the camera is fixed.

I will try to green screen the background and then completely remove it.

Best Regards,

Edward

Add full featured objects around your object and do not move it.

Instead, move your camera around.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I have experimented with both suggestions and tried many permutations of - green screen & masking, adding numerous full featured objects, walking around the objects, rotating objects on a platter, etc…  Unfortunately, nothing seems to work.

Would be great if someone has an example that was successfully captured that I can learn from.

Best Regards,

Edward

Hi Edward,

I answered your question i a different thread, where it fits better I think:

https://support.capturingreality.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360018196031-Forced-Merging-Flipped-Scan-Components-Without-Masking?page=1#community_comment_360001820071