Recent content by totalwise

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...

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...

Feedback on photos would be appeciated.

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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

Photoshop 2020 is magic!

@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...

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...

Pleased with the final result, paid a fiverr designer to clean it up for me.

I worked out what was wrong, I have cs5 and I was watching a tutorial on how to do it on cs5 which is really meant for stitching panoramic photos together, not for blending a single macro shot together. I need a newer on to do it with the updated way designed for getting an object entirely in...

Hi I've done a shoot on a tripod using the remote shoot button at f5.6 at 6 manual steps to get this entire product (22mm) in focus. I tried to embed video of all the pictures, on my amazon s3 storage, but amazon aws is not an acceptable platoform...