Highflyingclive Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 I received an early Christmas present... a friend of mine has just upgraded his camera - and gave me his old Fujifilm S1 Pro. Wow! An obsolete camera, of course... but it is a joy to be able to use all my old 35mm Nikon lenses again. Here is my first attempt... Criticism from real photographers would be welcomed! Lightbox - two polypropylene lever-arch files. Lighting - three halogen desk lamps. Lens - Nikkor 35-70mm macro, F22, 0.25 second exposure. Post production - brightened in "levels", background fluff cloned out. Nothing clever - I have neither the skill nor the software... I don't have PhotoShop, I'm using Micrographics Picture Publisher 10.0 - an application that came free with a computer magazine, several years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usil Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 I am looking at this from a friends computer and not the best monitor but I have the following comments. Lighting: Not bad. A few shadows exist that you can work on if you want to fine tune the light arrangement but good first effort. F22: While you will get maximum depth of field with this setting it is not the sharpest setting for this lens. F8 to F11 would be sharper. Central focus: The monitor I am seeing this with makes it very difficult to see exactly what you used for the central focus. In animals, the eye must be in focus no matter what. For watches, I believe the hands and text on the face must be the point of focus. At a macro setting on a watch this probably means manual focusing. The hands just do not look clear to me but as I said, it could be my monitor. Positioning: Looks good. Not sure if you used any post processing but a 'little' unsharp mask looks to be needed. Good job. Usil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highflyingclive Posted December 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 @Usil... thanks, some useful advice there... I appreciate you taking the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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