QUOTE(Loseeker @ Jul 18 2022, 07:33 PM)
I see why you have chose 200mm now. You did that to compress the background so that the angle of view is within your A4 paper. And why do you want to use a piece of A4 paper as a backdrop may I ask? I know you're on a tight budget. At least get a manila cardboard la...A4 is really too small.
Despite what other has said, your 80-200 is ok for the shot you want to achieve given you have enough room to back away from. You don't really have to use a faster shutter speed if your camera is on a tripod. You need to understand that adjusting your shutter speed is to control how much you want the ambient lighting as well as your iphone continuous lighting in your shoot.
As regards the built in pop up flash is the worse kind of flash. It is small and direct without diffusion. It gives you a very harsh and very contrast kind of light which is NOT favor for portrait shooting as well as product/figurine shoot unless you like it that way. It's only good for 2 things. 1) To use as an optical trigger for your off camera flash. 2) As emergency lighting to light up your subject.
Finally, using flash and continue lighting requires different kind of settings. Of course you can mix them both. But I would suggest you understand how each of them work first before you mix them together.
Now that I've understand the situation better, on top of what I've already told you previously, you can try the following.
1. Put you iphone continuous light 45 degree to the left/right of your figurine. Diffuse it by wrapping it with a big white plastic bag
2. As for your camera setting, the Focal length: 80mm, iso 100. Aperture at F5.6. As for the shutter speed, you can adjust in such a way that, the background of your figurine is about 1/3 to 2/3 stop underexposed.
3. Don't use the build in flash.
4. As for the backdrop, ditch the A4 paper. If you cannot find another decent backdrop to use, just use any wall will do and place your figurine a bit far away to show a bit of depth.
If you want to know more detail how to setup the above, feel free to whatsapp me
I'll go over to my local stationery store this weekend and buy myself some materials so I can setup my own light box sort of thing.
I still don't have a tripod yet so I was already risking my photo sharpness for low ISO and slow shutter speed now... thats the next on my to-buy-list.
Also how does it work as a optical trigger tho?
That sounds expensive
I'll try with diffusing my phone's torch first, do you think I should have the entire room blacked out when I'm shooting tho?
QUOTE(COOLPINK @ Jul 18 2022, 07:46 PM)
This rule is from the old film days but still in use today.
The general rule is keep your shutter speed equal or above the focal length.
In your case at 200mm your shutter speed should be 1/320s due to the crop factor.
With image stabilization you can compensate your shutter speed by 1 stop or more.
Its just a rule though.
But i would you have very steady hands there haha.
The rule where your shutterspeed should be almost the same as your focal length? Maybe I'll try it out.
also as much as I'd love to have image stabilization, this lens and body combo doesn't come with that feature lol
And my hand was shaky as hell that I had to use the backrest of my chair as a support, and you have no idea how many ruined shots were flushed down the toilet thanks to my shaky hands
Jul 7 2022, 09:07 AM, updated 3y ago
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Or you meant this figurine is your wife? 
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