Is this impossible?

[Derrel]

Ummmm, cupcake, the makeup shot could be done at any number of exposure settings. A wide range of settings could be used. Since the subject is a simple trio of small products, shot on a controllable background, you'll be able to replicate this shot pretty easily.

 

[cupcake09]

Hi Derrel! Yeah you'd think it'd be easy eh?

What I'm having the most trouble with is getting the ideal sharpness. I think my lenses (2.8 50 mm) is sharpest around 5.6-8 but that doesn't seem to be doing the trick.

 

[table1349]

Try this. The information may still there.

Cool. Thanks, never seen that particular site before.

 

[Dao]

Hi Derrel! Yeah you'd think it'd be easy eh?

What I'm having the most trouble with is getting the ideal sharpness. I think my lenses (2.8 50 mm) is sharpest around 5.6-8 but that doesn't seem to be doing the trick.

Is your camera on tripod? With f/5.6 or f/8 and a continuous lighting setup, it is possible to have camera shake (blur) due to slow shutter speed.

 

[gsgary]

Hi Derrel! Yeah you'd think it'd be easy eh?

What I'm having the most trouble with is getting the ideal sharpness. I think my lenses (2.8 50 mm) is sharpest around 5.6-8 but that doesn't seem to be doing the trick.

In that case you are doing something wrong

 

[Derrel]

I'd try a tripod-mounted camera, with the self-timer set to 10-second delay, and an exposure time that is around 2 seconds. Sometimes a camera/lens/tripod setup will show some minor vibration issues at "instantaneous" exposure times, such as 1/30 second down to as slow as say 1/4 second...but LONGER times, like 1 to 5 seconds, yield sharper images. If you have say, a very lightweight tripod, it is possible for the mirror slap on the mirror-up cycle, then the immediate slap of the first shutter curtain opening, can cause oscillation and thus slight, slight camera movement, which in "instantaneous" exposures, can last for much of the duration of the exposure, causing unsharp images.

In a longer exposure, say from 1 second to 5 seconds, the mirror goes up, the first curtain opens, and then the vibration starts, but it STOPS fairly early in the overall length of the exposure, and so, it's possible to get sharper images with a longer speed, than with a faster speed, especially on lightweight or flimsy, vibration/oscillation prone tripods.

 

[TheKenTurner]

I find that a 2-second delay will work fine. Stop down to probably f/11, ISO maybe.... 400(don't know how powerful your lights are, but I'll guess this)? And then choose shutter speed based off that. If you have IS in a lens, TURN IT OFF. And I don't see how you could get any problems. Are you sure you focused on the subject properly?

 

[CameraFu]

Hey, well I know if you shoot in raw you can get the data. What type of camera do you have? I would say the best thing for you to do is the experiment so you learn from this situation.

 

[XFZ]

I believe you could view the info on the jpg file, and it'll show you the details.

 

[photograpix]

It happen to me before in the other forum for photo of the month challenge the rules are images has to be shot on specific date and must have an the exif file. Did my PP in photoshop but after saving it and posted it in the forum, one of the admin deleted it for lacking of EXIF information.

I don't know where you did your post production but I think sometimes Photoshop screwed up on that.

 

[naturallymaternal]

May this be a lesson to ALWAYS keep the raw files of photos you "might" like. I keep as much as I can because I do like to go back and play and edit photos especially because as I grow as a photographer, my style changes and sometimes I see beauty in something that wasn't there before.

 

[shaylou]

I hate to say it but you are chasing your tail. There is no "king" of setting that you can rely on. You set your camera based of the light situation given at that moment. Unless you plan on somehow recreating that light situation (I'm being sarcastic) that you took the original shot in you are waisting your time. You would be better off spending that time studying exposure then trying to recreate a one time lucky guess (as it seems to be) setting.

 

[KmH]

"F/8 and be there" and the Sunny 16 rule can be used as starting points.

 

[benlinus78]

Yes it is possible. if you Open the image in image editor i think it will be possible.

 

[petrochemist118 143]

It happen to me before in the other forum for photo of the month challenge the rules are images has to be shot on specific date and must have an the exif file. Did my PP in photoshop but after saving it and posted it in the forum, one of the admin deleted it for lacking of EXIF information.

I don't know where you did your post production but I think sometimes Photoshop screwed up on that.

Photoshop has a save for web setting which strips the EXIF. It's quite easy to save JPG images with the EXIF as long as you don't use save for web.