Douglas wrote:
the camera used was my first DSLR - a Canon 300D (Digital Rebel) - the lens was my beloved Yashica 2.8/55 mm Macro (dare I say it? it knocks Leica into a cocked hat).Lighting:Diffused lighting from all sorts of directions with daylight temperature, soft, flat lighting (3 glass-topped light tables usually used for viewing slides, two behind the bottom edge of the background paper, one from the side).
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't :-)
You have more patience with a photo, than I have, Douglas! But, I'd say the work was worth it!
Cheers! --- David Young, Logan Lake, CANADA Limited Edition Prints at: www.furnfeather.net Personal Web-site at: www.main.furnfeather.net Stock Photography at: http://tinyurl.com/2amll4