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10-24-2010, 01:43 PM   #1
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In one of my other hobbies, I collect fountain pens. I'm a writer, and it's my experience that a lot of writers enjoy this traditional form of writing with these often beautiful pens.

I practiced taking some photos of one of my nicer pens today, but I can't seem to get the camera to focus on the entire pen, vs. one portion of it. It's fine if the box in the background isn't in focus, in fact, I think that makes the pen stand out more. Any tips? I used a Pentax-A 50mm 2.0 lens for this, so manual focusing. EXIF info should be intact, as there was very minimal PP on these.

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10-24-2010, 01:49 PM   #2
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if you didnt already know,
try using a higher aperture number, eg f8 rather than 2

f2 will result in a shallow 'in focus' range.
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Try f-8 to f-11 in AV mode and fill with flash, diffused.
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No flash, but here are a couple I took at F8 and F11. Much, MUCH more what I was looking for:

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The last two look really good to me. Nice pen too!
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