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    My best product photos so far as an amatuer photographer

    Ahh thanks, 1024 seems quite restricrive, Ive fixed it.
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    My best product photos so far as an amatuer photographer

    shoot, I just noticed. These are all automatic watches which wind down. but charge with a little movement. So it mustve got charged after I set it to 10 by 10.
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    My best product photos so far as an amatuer photographer

    Here's my latest product photo, looking for feedback on it and some teething issues I'd like help with. camera setting 1/200, f14, iso 100 canon eos 600d, kit lens, Aided with Yonguo speedlight YN560ii A lot of the settinngs I dont know what they do, I know aperature helps with field of view...
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    Beginner need stands/arms to hold speedlight down at angles.

    Hello, I do a lot of desktop photography for my ecommerce store (watch straps in case your wondering). I need the speedlight angles to be more dynamic and having the speedlight mounted on the camera just doesn't provide the flexibility i need, because it's shot closeup, often the speedlight is...
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    Good entry level adjustable lighting for tabletop photography

    Haha you read my photos like an open book. Modifiers - I presume you mean the softbox that I attach onto the speedlight? They are 15cm wide and 15cm away from the speedlight light source. It just seemed right to use speedlights either side, I do understand what you mean about have two evenly...
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    Good entry level adjustable lighting for tabletop photography

    Feedback on photos would be appeciated.
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    Good entry level adjustable lighting for tabletop photography

    Hey Garry I have 2 speedlights now YN560-ii This is my latest incarnation of the product above. I feel it's really good but still a notch below the big business competitors who use commercial photographers. I am still using the kit lens 18mm to 55mm EFS. I do wonder whether I should upgrade...
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    Good entry level adjustable lighting for tabletop photography

    Thanks Les. IIRC the advice was extension tubes are a suitable substitute. Do I still need a macro lens if I can zoom in and fill the frame with the object?
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    Good entry level adjustable lighting for tabletop photography

    Ok I'll order some speedlights, 2 should do the trick, either side? Aperature was something around f5.x for the former and f22 for the latter :p. I didn't know that you lose so much detail if you go that high when I started. For me, I'm happy with the results so far, but I'm sure if I do it...
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    Good entry level adjustable lighting for tabletop photography

    I couldn't do more than 6 shots. because I would get front to back of the photo in 6. I was using the focusing ring mainly because the aliexpress focusing rail was just too rubbish. The focusing ring tends to be stiff and then you exert a bit of force and it jumps too much. Maybe I need to...
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    Good entry level adjustable lighting for tabletop photography

    Sorry, I'm dabbling with it and completely forgot that I posted here before. Are they both not sharp enough, The former is my second attempt and I thought it was sharp enough. the latter is my first attempt. The first image is made up of 6 focus stacked layers so it's supposed to pick the...
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    Good entry level adjustable lighting for tabletop photography

    Hello I'm learning how to shoot photos of my product. This is a photo I've managed to shoot. I believe this is a big improvement over my previous attempt. I bought a photo cube which was a good way of getting consistent lighting and angle of light between shots, but it made everything...
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    Beginner Do I need a macro lens for watch photography?

    @jstog Here's one of them, This is shot before I learnt focus stacking so I'm going to re-do them. I was trying to get all the product in focus using F22 Since posting, I learnt that I shouldn't use this screw in magnifying lens and use an extension tube instead. Also use focus stacking in...
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    Beginner Can't manual focus my EOS 600D (kit lens) on the EOS utility

    I watched a youtube video showing how you can adjust the focus on the EOS utility for focus stacking purposes. You can use the arrows in app to focus in/out at regular steps so you can get even steps for focus stacking purposes. I can't seem to do it on my camera and the camera always had some...
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