Experimenting with New Camera

[schacht]

sorry for the big size, just to see no diffraction

Very nice picutre, Maurizio! It´s just as you said: diffraction blur is not visble here, and as your 180mm sigma macro is closed to f16, diffraction blur is surely not a problem at all. For anyone, who want´s to know more about the optical phenomenon of diffraction blur, will possibly find this wikipedia article helpful, but for the most of us, this won´t really be a matter of interest.
These shadow boxes are really an easy way to get proper lighting, maybe it limits our creativity a little bit, but if photography is not your main focus, and you simply want some nice and sober pitures of your pipes, this is a good start.
Kind regards

Thilo

 

[ssjones]

Great tips and techniques guys, and fantastic photos.
Vroomfondel - what is the story on that bamboo shanked billiard? I know I've seen that pipe before, but can't place who/where.

 

[zanthal]

GREAT photos ... and those are some very nice looking pipes.
The Gimp is an excellent image editor, technically speaking, but Paint.NET is more user friendly, and just as free.

 

[havanarick]

Great pictures!!!

Really love the Thomas James egg, awesome pipe.

Good luck with the pictures. :clap:

 

[vroomfondel]

Vroomfondel - what is the story on that bamboo shanked billiard? I know I've seen that pipe before, but can't place who/where.

Sorry for replying so late, mate. I posted that pic on Smokers Forums some time ago, but there is no special story involved, it's a regular Tsuge Fatboy. Maybe you have it confused with Huub's, who had a custom blue stem made for his and opened the draw a bit on the mouthpiece (which I plan to do myself as well).

 

[ssjones]

It was the Smokers Forum, great pipe!