Indoor vs. Outdoor Gun Photography

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JagerRanger said:
With a 'large-format' camera the aperture could be fully open and the whole object from one inch to eternity will be sharp.
You increase the depth of field (and sharpness) with distance, amount of light and optics, for example. A good tripod is always beneficial.
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You got it bass ackwards:
If the aperture were fully open, you would have limited depth of field. If it were closed down, then you would have maximum depth of field. Depth of field is controlled by F stop and image size or to put it in another way, F stop and distance from the object. You are right about the tripod.
 
Most of these photos are as good or better than the work of the pros that I have seen.
 
Those are some very nice images DubbleA. If you are not a photographer of the professional sort then you must surely be into as a hobby as I do not believe just anyone can pick up a camera and get the results you did LOL. You have a very good eye. I am also glad that someone sharpened them a bit and did a curve correction as that helped as well. Again, very nice images.
 
The only camera that is able to control the space / object totally is this: http://www.sinar.ch/en/products/cameras/141-sinar-p3 .
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No. The Sinar is only a view camera - nothing special. The P3 happens to be built to use a digital back. Any view camera provides corrections according to Scheimpflug (swings, tilts, shifts).

Horseman, Linhof, Arca-Swiss, Cambo, Ebony, KB Canham, Toyo etc. all make view cameras that provide the type of control as the Sinar. While Sinar popularized base tilts as opposed to axis tilts, there are a number of manufacturers offering base tilts, and in the case of some Arca-Swiss cameras - both on the same model.

For a while, Hasselblad made the ArcBody and FlexBody that were based on a bellows system that allowed the use of a digital back with corrections for use with Hasselblad (Zeiss) lenses.

With single lens reflex cameras you can get some corrections using perspective control (PC) lenses that are available from both Canon and Nikon.

While the Sinar is a nice piece of equipment it is hardly the "only camera that is able to control space."
 
Bathtubs make great photo studios with good lighting and good equipment.

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Outdoors, you can shoot on a deck or against foliage.

Ideally, if you can use a shallow depth of field and "fuzz out" the background, it will make for better pictures.

Or, you can just shoot on a plain background, such as concrete, especially if you don't give a rat's rear end about scratching the delicate finish on your firearms...

LOL

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John
 
Or, camera shake, because he was at ISO 100, which forced the slow 1/30 shutter speed, and he was shooting hand held.
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Hey Nipprdog...please tell us how you came to know this.

And BTW...if the reason his indoor image came out Grainy & Fuzzy was because of "Camera Shake," how do you explain the stamped letters "FIRE" and "SAFE" coming out legible?
You may want to go back and take another look....
 
Hey Nipprdog...please tell us how you came to know this.
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Download Opanda Exif

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:D

And BTW...if the reason his indoor image came out Grainy & Fuzzy was because of "Camera Shake," how do you explain the stamped letters "FIRE" and "SAFE" coming out legible?
You may want to go back and take another look....
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Good point, they're are legible. :D I looked again, its not camera shake, its focal length. ;) I just noticed that the focal length was 6.3mm. :eek: That short of focal length at f3.1 will give an extremely shallow DOF. ;) But shooting wide open can easily give sharpness in the entire photo, as long as you're focal length isn't to short. I just shot this pic at f3.2, similar to the OP's.

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But its it 50mm. (75mm since its DX??)

Heres one at f2.2

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:D
 
Capybara said:
I find the hardest shots are the full length rifle. You need some room, a big enough background, multiple light sources. I want to buy some camo netting to re-do this shot but I had to use my standard muslin because that's all I had laying around.

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That's why portrait photographers get a few feet away and use a mild telephoto.

We tend to think that good vs bad in cameras corresponds with sharp vs blurry. In fact, a really good camera also has much better color. The reason that natural light gives better color is that all colors are present is sunlight, but man-made light sources tend to have certain wave-lengths, i.e. colors, dominate.
 
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