Dear Photographer;-
    Oh, yes. The one thing I forgot to mention: you'll want a bellows. The bellows
goes between the lens and the camera body. They are not expensive. It's like an
adjustable hollow tube.
    Art

Sarah Watson wrote:

> Don't get a lens with a fixed F-stop, especially if the F-stop is 2.5.  To
> get a better field of view, you will need a smaller aperture of at least f
> 11. My best shots were done at F 16 to F 22. Your images will be out of focus
> if the F-stop is any larger than F 11.
>
> I also like using regular hot lamps rather than flash. I guess this is just a
> personal preference because I like to manipulate the lighting so I can get
> better contrast on the details of the sculpture. It's a lot easier to do this
> with lamps than it is with flash.
>
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