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Cheers A.N.Other. Ok, so the gradient might well just be a bit of photoshop trickery.

Thanks for the light tent tip Jotun - i'll do some more reading on that. I bought two huge sheet of matt black card, hoping that I'd be able to make a dark backgroud, but lighting the objects then tends to make the card appear a non-uniform grey. There is an also an obvious joint where the...

I struggle with the backgrounds and surfaces that are always present when I photograph objects. How do people make backgrounds like this: http://www.buchkoe.com/portfolio/ring.jpg (This is just an example from 1st page of results from google image search for "product") Or this? Link to...

I don't even know what 'still life' means :confused: Time for some research :)

cyKey wins the day again IMHO. I find photo prints a lot more forgiving due to ink-merge, I expect it'll look fine at A4 at least. Plus its not got to be studio quality to be a lovely family photo on the wall. Best festive wishes :)

Hi Blackvault, I tried to photograph my guitars and amps a while ago, with limited success. I got almost nowhere with the guitars. I couldn't get a good light on the shiny bodies without taking them outdoors (not ideal at this time of year etc...). Your amp shots look a bit murky to me. I...

I've really started to notice that there are sharper bands through the zoom range on the sigma 70-300. Fully out at 300 it can be really soft, but i've had a couple of much sharper (for this lens) shots in the 200-300 range. It varies a bit with the exposure too :rolleyes: I guess its...

Well... everyone else seems to be putting two up now... Two of my earliest photos on the first camera I ever owned...starting a new hobby really.

I'm obviously in the minority, but I don't think this is a very exciting subject for a photograph. In many ways it's a nicer picture that the plethora of photos of candles posted here (with me as guilty as anyone), but candles in photos can at least be used to provide an interesting and/or...

Um.....Is it not just Photoshop -> Filter -> Artistic -> Cutout I use this to give photos a comicbook look. E.g. 1 E.g. 2 E.g. 3

What did you use to stitch it? I find Autostitch gives pretty good results, and it tidys up the joins for you.

Hmmm, well there is a question about that at the moment. I didn't notice at the time, but on refection the poultry hanging in the window appear to have tails! :confused:

The first is looking down on 'Central' Hong Kong from Victoria peak. The 2nd is the Tian Tan Buddha, at the Po Lin Buddhist monastery, Lantau. You have to wade through tourists and wait your turn to get shots at most of the tourist sights.

Most useful thing I ever read was my camera manual. Someone here told me to do that. Was a good idea. Much better photos. No help with learning photoshop obviously.

I've just come back from Hong Kong where i've done some shopping for Camera gear. Generally I found things to be cheaper, but not that much cheaper. I think the internet has taken a bit of the sting out of tax free shopping to be honest. For inf. I got a sigma 70-300 APO for £100, but...