I've been trying to shoot some marble sculpture that are well lit on a studio wall. The photos are coming out well and perfectly useable.. but I'm striving for something better. My issue is with sharpness, I can't get everything perfectly sharp. Any tips on top of what I am doing:
- I'm using a tripod
- Canon 5d mark II with 24-105 as well as nifty fifty
- Aperture highest the lens offers
- ISO 400 or lower
- Image stabilisers off
- Long and short exposures 4 seconds - 1/500
- Focusing manually using liveCode zoomed in 10x
- 1.5 meters from the subject
I'm getting great shots.. but I want to capture all the fine details of the stone, the textures and veining etc.
I can sharpen and boost the contrast etc in post and get some pretty nice images.. but with the source images being a little off, you can never capture that perfect photo.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/03/airy-dresses-carved-from-marble-by-alasdair-thomson/