The only thing you really need to have is a camera that will focus on objects at the distance you want. Of course, indoors or at night, some kind of light will be required, and each kind of light will have a different effect (ordinary light-bulb, photo flood, flash on-the- camera, flash off-the-camera, ring-light. Oh, yes, daylight, sunlight.
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If you want the pictures to come out exactly like thos of some photographer whose work you admire, you may hve to use similar lighting and technique. Probably, unless you are doing it for some professional purpose, you don't need special equipment.
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One guy I know shoots pictures of jewelry (size + shape like flowers).
Uses a 4x5 view-camera, builds sets and has very special lighting.
And he spends a LOT of time on each one.
But he wouldn't do that if he were not a pro, and his wife were not a well known jeweler whose stuff needs advertising shots.
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For my own photos of flowers I use a Pentax PZ-70 with the 35-80 zoom focussed at about 12 inches. Sometimes, a Yashica MAT 124 TLR
with +3 close-up accessory lens.
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Used to try with a Fuji Discovery P&S, and with a Richo 500G,
with little success... would not focus close enough.
If your camera will not focus that close, you might want to get a close-up lens, or a lens that can be reversed
(I never tried that but I hear it will work).
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If you live near NYC, there are a lot of camera stores with used lenses-- I found my Bay-1 close-up lens in rec.photo.marketplace.
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The only thing you really need to have is a camera that will focus on objects at the distance you want. Of course, indoors or at night, some kind of light will be required, and each kind of light will have a different effect (ordinary light-bulb, photo flood, flash on-the- camera, flash off-the-camera, ring-light. Oh, yes, daylight, sunlight.
<p>
If you want the pictures to come out exactly like thos of some photographer whose work you admire, you may hve to use similar lighting and technique. Probably, unless you are doing it for some professional purpose, you don't need special equipment.
<p>
One guy I know shoots pictures of jewelry (size + shape like flowers).
Uses a 4x5 view-camera, builds sets and has very special lighting.
And he spends a LOT of time on each one.
But he wouldn't do that if he were not a pro, and his wife were not a well known jeweler whose stuff needs advertising shots.
<p>
For my own photos of flowers I use a Pentax PZ-70 with the 35-80 zoom focussed at about 12 inches. Sometimes, a Yashica MAT 124 TLR
with +3 close-up accessory lens.
<p>
Used to try with a Fuji Discovery P&S, and with a Richo 500G,
with little success... would not focus close enough.
If your camera will not focus that close, you might want to get a close-up lens, or a lens that can be reversed
(I never tried that but I hear it will work).
<p>
If you live near NYC, there are a lot of camera stores with used lenses-- I found my Bay-1 close-up lens in rec.photo.marketplace.