Hi, just joined this forum as I need some advice. I purchased a Canon EOS 2000D DSLR camera this week with an 18-55mm DC Lens (the lens it came with). I like to take photo's of all sorts of things, mainly landscapes and close up shots in a lightbox. The photo's in my lightbox are all blurred and I can't get a clear photo whatever I do. I've got it on the close up setting, infact I've tried all settings, but to no avail. Is it the wrong type of lens for close ups in a lightbox? Any advice would be welcome. Thank you.
Hello and welcome to the forum. Any chance of posting a couple of images so we can see what you mean about blurred photos. Then we maybe able to give you a few pointers to what is wrong. Gary
also if you can post any settings used like shutter speed iso etc and which types of focus or modes like auto or tv etc are you shooting hand held or on a tripod reason for all the questions is so we can help that much easier / quicker, basically the more info you give us the best we can help.
Thank you for your quick replies. I feel I am getting a little closer, having been playing with my camera for the last hour or so. Here is an example photo. My main issue now is that it is quite dark. The object in the lightbox is obviously very bright but as soon as I press the button to take the photo, it goes slightly darker. I have my camera set to close ups, an ISO of 200 and I am using a tripod. Any advice on how to make it brighter, as it is in the lightbox, would be appreciated. Thank you so much.
Simply you need more light. Your focus distance minimum with that lens is about 10 inches, any closer will not be able to focus. Closeup mode will put your lens wide open between 3.5 or 5.6 depending on where you have it zoomed. Shutter speed can show vibration of you tripping the shutter button possibly even on a tripod, I prefer remotes if shooting between 1 sec and 1/30 sec as a general rule but I came from film and larger format cameras o I am playing it safe. I would shoot 1/60 of sec if you can to eliminate any vibration of the camera even on tripod. The issue is even at f4 at 1/60 at iso 200 is 9 ev which is the equivalent of a skyline after sunset, which would be rather dark without extra lighting. What lighting are you using? Some bulbs, LEDs, strobes? You probably need to up the poser on them. And I would say you can increase ISO on camera if you have to. You may want to stop the lens down to f8 or f11 if you can find more light from strobes, that way you will have all of the object in focus.
Thank you for this information. It's really useful. I'll take it all onboard and do some more testing over the next day or two.
Ju Here is an example of how I can use a macro lens shoot all the way at f20 making sure whole image is basically in focus and use a ISO of 100. I needed 2 580 EXII flashes turned up, not sure the power i shot them at though.
I did not dust the car off as well as I had hoped and the box could use some spot removal of dust too, but I was testing my yongnuo triggers so the purpose was not a product shot but just technical testing . I have had the triggers for almost a decade and wanted to make sure they worked fine with my 5d4, they were released back in the 5d2 and 5d3 timeline and did not have the newest firmware yongnuo provides for Canon dslrs.
