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Originally Posted by Robb
O.K. I've tried some of the suggestions I've read here including:
Shooting at ISO 200 the lowest setting I've got to limit the grain of the picture
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Make sure you also have a good light source to illuminate the object.
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Originally Posted by Robb
adjusting VL to +1.3 since I'm using the white background and to keep the camera from turning it gray, though it still looks a bit gray to me.
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"VL"? Do you mean the Exposure Compensation setting?
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Originally Posted by Robb
Shooting in Aperture priority mode using F18, a higher F-stop to keep only the pen in focus and help the background blur out
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If you're trying to limit the DOF (Depth Of Field) you want to use a lower f/stop to open up the aperture more...a wider aperture gives you a shallow DOF. Using a higher f/stop will reduce the size of the aperture and this increases the DOF so that more of the image will be in focus.
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Originally Posted by Robb
And shooting this with a speed light 600 in auto and inside of a light tent
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You might want to put the Speedlite outside the light tent to help diffuse the light, but manually set the power of the flash instead of using the AUTO setting.
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Originally Posted by Robb
This picture is straight out of the camera with nothing adjusted other than size. Please give me feedback on what you think can be improved for a better out of camera shot.
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I don't see a picture here. And when I go to the ImageShack I get a "this page cannot be displayed" error message.