Another day, another “meh”
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.
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Yep, looks like your depth of field is a bit short. Adjusting your fStop (Aperature setting) will correct that. Of course when you change the iris setting you will have to adjust the shutter speed. I’d also recommend using a darker back drop and applying a spot to back light the rear edges of the object you are photographing. By the way, nice puzzles.
Bruce
Ken, I see what you mean about the back edges. I am hard pressed to get beyond snapshots of my work. And I wonder how to find the time to click, edit, post, comment, sell, write, and, oh yes, make product!
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