Soldato
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- 13 May 2003
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Hi Peeps
I'm in the process of building a website and one of the features will be to showcase some of my wife's craft products linked to her Facebook account and maybe at some point int he future an Etsy account.
I have a Nikon D40 with the stock 18-55mm lens. I've had it maybe 10 years and I'm not especially proficient mostly using it for holiday snaps and the like. I used to own a Pentax ME Super with a 35mm Prime lens (if memory serves) which in many respects I preferred. I'm not very skilled or knowledgeable about photography.
So my desire is to take neat photos of small items no more than 100mm in any of 3 dimensions. I had looked on Amazon and very cheap light studios/boxes (for the want of better words) are available, mini pop up tents witha few leds and coloured mats to put the products on are available. But I don't know if these would be a false economy. Also I'm not familair enough with my camera to know if the aperture size is sufficient for give me the narrow depth of field (tell me if I'm using the wrong terms) to give nice photos.
I'll probably have a play this weekend using whatever I have available but mostly with the intent of seeing what the camera can produce.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
I'm in the process of building a website and one of the features will be to showcase some of my wife's craft products linked to her Facebook account and maybe at some point int he future an Etsy account.
I have a Nikon D40 with the stock 18-55mm lens. I've had it maybe 10 years and I'm not especially proficient mostly using it for holiday snaps and the like. I used to own a Pentax ME Super with a 35mm Prime lens (if memory serves) which in many respects I preferred. I'm not very skilled or knowledgeable about photography.
So my desire is to take neat photos of small items no more than 100mm in any of 3 dimensions. I had looked on Amazon and very cheap light studios/boxes (for the want of better words) are available, mini pop up tents witha few leds and coloured mats to put the products on are available. But I don't know if these would be a false economy. Also I'm not familair enough with my camera to know if the aperture size is sufficient for give me the narrow depth of field (tell me if I'm using the wrong terms) to give nice photos.
I'll probably have a play this weekend using whatever I have available but mostly with the intent of seeing what the camera can produce.
Any advice would be much appreciated.