Moonstone…finally
Playing with a background
So here’s the setup currently. As mentioned, I still have the front/side lights to add. I threw in some Battle Systems terrain as a backdrop (again, inspired by @Soapdodger, praise be).
As to settings, this was taken with my macro lens, Aperture Priority, f10. For any who don’t know, the aperture has a large impact on depth of field. A smaller aperture, a smaller depth of field. The reason I wasn’t able to get the whole mini in focus, as I mentioned in the last post, was that I was using too low of an aperture (apparently a complicated combination of f-stop and shutter speed). If I set the aperture to 22 even the full background is in focus. Set it really low (the lowest this lens goes is 2.8) and the whole mini isn’t in focus.
I’ve settled currently at around f10. It does require a reasonably long shutter speed so hand-held is not feasible at that level.
Overall, I’m pretty pleased with the results.
Edit: just realized I “tagged” Soapdodger here with a # instead of the proper @. Fixed it.
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