Posts from — September 2009

Well, tried taking some puzzle photos again.

No joy.

I think that I’m cutting the Depth of Field too short, I’ll need to check my reference and give it another try. By increasing the DoF I think I can get better pictures. Or maybe there’s something about this whole thing I just don’t understand yet.

It could be my eyes. The photos I took today were all manual focus because the last set were auto focus and were a bit soft. I also discovered that my lens gets to a soft focus at >250mm or so, so I specifically stayed well below that today. It’s possible that my eyes just can’t do the fine focus well enough any more – that would not be good.

If you really want to see them, I put them up on my other site at ProductPhotography. These have had nothing but the default conversion from Canon RAW to full sized jpeg using ufraw-batch and then resized using convert from ImageMagick.

To me, the focus looks OK, but the back sides of the puzzles are too fuzzy and unfocused.

We have more puzzles than just the Pentomino sets (including an original design), and more ideas in the pipeline, but I have to get this photography stuff down pat before I start putting up more information on them. That’s going to have to be a priority over the next few days so we can get more stuff up and listed over on our store.

I’ve not been entirely pleased with the images I have here or over at the store.

I think I’ve resolved how to fix that (or, at the least, I’m headed in the right direction) so other updates here will be temporarily put on hold while I regenerate the images.

The plan is to have a Page on each type of puzzle that will have some discussion on it, plus other links to other places on the internet where a more complete discussion can be found.