Dang it Mongo!!! I was pretending to know what I was talking about. :mmph:
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Dang it Mongo!!! I was pretending to know what I was talking about. :mmph:
Damn CD, I hope they pay you extra for shining up the bumpers before the shoot. They should really have a "guy" for that.
RTFM :tsk:
Now, once you are done with that, you should have a basic understanding of how the controls work. Then read a book or hop on a forum and start to learn about aperture, shutter speed and ISO. I have learned those buzz words so far :thumb: However, it would appear that you took the picture with a very narrow depth of field which caused it to be in focus in the middle of the slice but out of focus in front and behind. If I were to play a detective, I would guess you had your kit lens zoomed at 55mm at F5.6 then you depth of field is only .091 ft if the slice was 2 feet from the camera. This is extremely thin. Useful at times but that is my guess as to your issue. It would be a little better once you figure out how to control the focus points.
RTFM :tsk:
Now, once you are done with that, you should have a basic understanding of how the controls work. Then read a book or hop on a forum and start to learn about aperture, shutter speed and ISO. I have learned those buzz words so far :thumb: However, it would appear that you took the picture with a very narrow depth of field which caused it to be in focus in the middle of the slice but out of focus in front and behind. If I were to play a detective, I would guess you had your kit lens zoomed at 55mm at F5.6 then you depth of field is only .091 ft if the slice was 2 feet from the camera. This is extremely thin. Useful at times but that is my guess as to your issue. It would be a little better once you figure out how to control the focus points.
Seriously though, since I bumped a thread more than 30 days old I should probably ask something useful.
Where do I find out how to work my camera? For instance, this shot here. I don't even know how to move the little red dots to the part of the picture I want to focus. I would've liked to focus the very front of the slice, I don't love that it's a little out of focus. Is that stuff in the manual? Maybe I should read it. :crazy:
A few months ago, I posted up a way to take great food pr0n with a point-and-shot camera, a window, and a table.
Some throwdown participants asked about making good food pr0n after dark. Well, I use some of my studio lights for that, but most people don't have that.
So, I set out today to make a super cheap lighting setup that anyone could copy.
I took a piece of 1X2 from my garage, and made a 2-foot by 2-foot frame. I stapled a white kitchen trash bag to it, and made a light "softener" with it. I used a spring clamp to attach it to my kitchen table, and took the shade off of a table lamp, and put a 150 watt bulb in it, and used that as my light source. I used my Canon point-and-shoot camera to take these pictures -- in Program mode. I only used Photoshop to resize the images for posting on the forum.
Here is what the setup looks like...
And, here is what the setup does...
Yeah, it's just a bunch of food props, but you get the idea.
Seriously, anyone can replicate what I did here. Some wood, a trash bag, and a table lamp.
I hope this helps.
CD