Thursday, 12 March 2015

depth of field - How to take a photo of a close-up object without focus stacking?


I'm trying to get into product photography and took some fun shots. I'm talking about shots of my iPhone and things like that.


What I quickly realize is that I am unable to get enough DOF. I'm using a FF camera with a 135mm lens. Shooting at f/8.


It's obviously fine if I take the shot straight on, but as soon as I take the shot from an angle, either the front of the phone was in focus or the back, but not the whole thing.


I then went online and did some quick DOF calculator. Turns out when I am shooting at around 2 feet away, I am only getting 0.04 feet of DOF. Which is tiny, even for a small object like an iPhone.



So my question is how do I solve this? I could change the focal length but I'm not sure that will help since I will be adjusting the subject distance accordingly?


It seemed like using a point and shoot is much better at doing this job than a FF DSLR.




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