Recent content by craigahannan

one of my own terrible attempts

its not something i can afford though, im the same as everyone else trying to make ends meet, ive broke myself paying for the camera and lens

trouble is the cost, £25 per picture, i paid £3500 for pictures a couple of months ago.

Hi, i am very new to photography and looking for some advice, i am self employed and started taking my own product pictures to save some money and became genuinely interested in the world of macro, the problem i am having is that i recently started selling some very small pieces of body...

Hi everyone, i am brand new to photography, i am self employed and attempting to take my own product photographs, i have an ok camera, "canon eos 90d kit" and using a white backdrop with two glowpad lights from essentialphoto uk, i think they are rated around 350k (that doesnt really mean...

one other thing if i slow the shutter speed to let more light in can i have an aperture setting that will have the whole shot in focus, i.e nothing out of focus in the background or around the main subject while still allowing enough light in to stop the greying that i am getting ?

so would it be best to use a fully manual mode to be able to change these settings ?

where would i find the exposure setting on the camera ? i have been watching a lot of videos about iso and apertures and shutter speeds, would the exposure come under one of these settings ?

marc1548 thats great knowledge, i use white and black a lot and have trouble with both

Hi everyone, i am brand new to photography, i am self employed and attempting to take my own product photographs, i have an ok camera, "canon eos 90d kit" and using a white backdrop with two glowpad lights from essentialphoto uk, i think they are rated around 350k (that doesnt really mean...

thanks newbie1 and riddell, yeah it is frustrating and a very hard skill to learn but i do love the macro aspect, its like a whole new world. The trouble with employing a photographer as i have done in the past although most of the shots were really good there are small things that i see in the...

Hi Harlequin565 thanks for your reply, for a budget i would say maybe 600 to 700 if i could get the results i need but if i need to pay more then i will have to, i didnt really want to start paying massive amounts, i saw one camera the other day for over £2000, thats probably too much to be...

Hi all, im fairly new to photography, got involved through work really and became interested in macro photography, my problem is i need a camera that is good enoigh for macro (for relaxing) and also good enough for taking shots of the products that i sell (for work) which are mainly pieces of...

thanks for that realspeed, i also get the same problem with a ight box although it does help a little it still doesnt have that airbrushed kind of fake look that im going for, (by fake i mean blemish free as nothing in real life is).

Hi all, i am really new to this and i recently started taking pics of items for work, i sell body jewellery, im looking for some advice as to how to clean up the images in photoshop, it is so complicated its making my head spin, the steel in the jewellery when clsoe up in my pics looks dirty and...