I am new on here, and have very little experience with photography, other than general holiday photos!
My wife is starting a business and needs her products photographing for the website. I have been saying for years that I would like to take photography more seriously, and she asked if I could try and take the photos for her. I decided to give it a try, we got a light tent and some daylight lamps (3 x 5000k lamps in each head) and I have borrowed a camera from my brother. It's not an SLR, but it should e enough for what we need, it's a Minolta Dimage A2.
I have set up the light tent in the bedroom as we have blackout blinds and curtains, so the only light will be from my own light source. After playing around with the settings, reading the manaul for the camera, and having a look at other material off the internet (and taking 100+ pictures) I have come up with this .....
I know it's far from perfect, but as I have said, it's my first attempt. I know black and white aren't the easiest colours to capture (so I have read), and I seem to either have the image either over or under exposed. I have tried to get as much of the text in focus as possible, and the above image is the best so far.
Here is an image of the set up.
Please can anyone provide some advice on how to make it better? Thank you
EDIT:
Settings used:
ISO 100
S: 1/20
F: 5.6
My wife is starting a business and needs her products photographing for the website. I have been saying for years that I would like to take photography more seriously, and she asked if I could try and take the photos for her. I decided to give it a try, we got a light tent and some daylight lamps (3 x 5000k lamps in each head) and I have borrowed a camera from my brother. It's not an SLR, but it should e enough for what we need, it's a Minolta Dimage A2.
I have set up the light tent in the bedroom as we have blackout blinds and curtains, so the only light will be from my own light source. After playing around with the settings, reading the manaul for the camera, and having a look at other material off the internet (and taking 100+ pictures) I have come up with this .....
I know it's far from perfect, but as I have said, it's my first attempt. I know black and white aren't the easiest colours to capture (so I have read), and I seem to either have the image either over or under exposed. I have tried to get as much of the text in focus as possible, and the above image is the best so far.
Here is an image of the set up.
Please can anyone provide some advice on how to make it better? Thank you
EDIT:
Settings used:
ISO 100
S: 1/20
F: 5.6
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