u/Gingerbwas

hi

I am looking to push my Tamron 90mm macro a bit further with a magnification add on, there seem to be two good options the Raynox 250 and the Nisi macro lens. i have seen the Raynox used a lot in videos and was going to go with that but i wanted to check before in case the Nisi was the better option. My camera is the Sony A6700

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I have been getting in to doing some product photography (alcohol bottles) and i have been using the Godox TT600 as it was pretty cheap but quite effective, i would like to try and do some videos as well which need continuous light, does anyone have any suggestions for something similarly budget friendly but can achieve decent enough results?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I have a Tamron 90mm macro and a sony a6700 which is apsc, which makes the tamron 135mm, i have seen that around 80-100mm on full frame is popular, would this 135mm equivalent be workable or is it too much? If it isn't does anyone have any recommendations for a good lens for product photography (glass bottles of alcohol) on Sony APS-C?

Any help that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I have a Tamron 90mm macro and a sony a6700 which is apsc, which makes the tamron 135mm, i have seen that 100mm on full frame is very popular, would this 135mm equivalent be workable or is it too much? If it isn't does anyone have any recommendations for a good lens for food and drink photography on Sony APS-C?

Any help that you can provide will be greatly appreciated

Hi,

I would like to do some use fake ice for some product photos (alcohol), real ice is a massive, pain and i dont want to spend £70 on a single ice cube, can you get away with the acrylic ice cubes like you can see on amazon? I have seen that Encapso K silicone can be used, but is £50 (though you get 1kg worth) i thought it would be best to ask before buying anything, if anyone has any suggestions for good places to get it in the UK i would be very grateful.

Hi

I am looking to record some video and i would like to try out recording in SLog3 so that i can have more flexibility in post like i would do with RAW photography, there seems to be a lot of different views on how to do it when i searched YouTube so i am not really sure what is good advice and what isn't. If anyone could point me to something that they found that helped them step up from just using the basic settings and auto i would be very grateful.

I don't know if this is redundant but i have the a6700.

Hi

I am new to davinci, i am trying to add keyframes to a mask that i am adding along a polyspline in fusion, i want to add the beginning and end of the write on, i go to when i want to add them by moving the playhead in edit, then right clicking and opening in fusion to add the keyframe, when i try to add the end of the animation by moving the playhead to the end of the clip and right clicking and opening in fusion the fusion playhead is always at the begining of the clip instead of maintaining the time from the edit page and shows this both in the fusion and back in the edit tab when i got back. I dont know what i a m doing wrong and i have no idea how to move the playhead to the correct time in the fusion, tab i have done this multiple times previously but now when i try to do it it doesn’t work.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

win 11, 5070ti ryzen 7 9800x3d davincistudio 21.

*edit - i think it may have been a bug, restarting davinci sems to have fixed it, either that or it reset whatever i was doing.

Hi

Are posts that show alcohol allowed on TikTok, i have been doing the social media for a very small alcohol company in the UK, but our last couple of videos have been hit with warnings for community guidelines, our previous videos all went out with no problems and are still up, but our new ones have been blocked. the videos are just things like showing our stall at events, and some animated text ones that announce any events that we will be at, as well as a few talking heads. Weirdly one of the ones that was just text and a photo got flagged for misinformation.

I am not sure if this is because there systems have just noticed us and we were never allowed to post because we are alcohol related, or if there is some sort of mistake.

I have seen that there are some brands from the UK that are promoting alcohol (@auvodka and @/tarquinsgin)so it seems like TikTok does allow it, but now i am just more confused as they even show people drinking.

If anyone has any experience with this sort of thing i would appreciate your help.

Hi

I am have been taking some photos of alcohol bottles outside and some look great when the sun is at the rigbt angle, however when its behind the clouds or trees etc, the bottle look flat, would something like the Zhiyun m40se be any good for getting that glow back?

Anybhelp you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I am trying to copy the attributes from one clip to another in the edit page, i click on the clip so it is selected red, the playhead line is also over the clip, i right click and copy, then select the target clip so it is red, right click paste attributes, i select everything and stretch to fit, click apply and nothing happens.

Is this a bug or am i doing something wrong?

Any help that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

I am running on windows 11, davinci resolve 21, rtx 5070ti Ryzen 7 9800 x3d

Hi

I have just made a relatively simple animation using some pngs and the fusion tab, but there is an error that appears at the end of some the stacks of clips, a message at the bottom says no frame available for mediaout1, i am not sure how to fix this as i am new to davinci, when i check the nodes in fusion they look like they should to my eye, but i could be missing something obvious. could it be to how i used the fade out on them?
i have included an image to show what is happening though where the playhead is i have removed the fade outs on the clips to see if that would help but it doesnt.

https://preview.redd.it/gjuiqeuj53fh1.png?width=987&format=png&auto=webp&s=00834b04ac6d8c5198ee8f18215bb929949cba51

Any help that you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Update* I ended up disabling all the clips and playing them one at a time to see which ones cause the issues, then i remade those ones from scratch.

I am running on windows 11, davinci resolve 21, rtx 5070ti Ryzen 7 9800 x3d

Hi

i am makings some stamps that are quite large (up to 20cm in diameter) , there are places that sell ink pads for this but they are expensive, which made me wonder about making my own, i have seen some guides that suggest that you can use upholstery foam, but this seems much coarser then what are in a lot of normal ink pads for stamps. Does anyone know if there is a particular type of foam that is used, if there is a name that i could search to see if i can find some blank material.

Any suggestions that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I am looking for a lens that will be able to roughly cover close, medium and wide shots, i have the a6700, and the videos will be mostly for social media and promotional videos, its for a very small company selling alcohol where we are looking to try and step up from just a few shots on phones. I am not sure what to get, and i think for convenience i would rather get a zoom then multiple primes (at least for now). The 18-105 seems OK though i am not sure about the aperture, i did consider the tamron 17-70 but i have seen reviews that say that the oss fights the ibis on cameras that have it, and that you can only have it on or off meaning that effectively it doesn’t have it. I know its more a matter of taste, but how useful is the power zoom on the 18-105?

Are there any other lenses that would be better?

Any suggestions that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I have been enjoying doing some macro photography with a cheap second hand sony 30mm f3.5 on my a6700, i would like to upgrade as i find the distance from the subject quite difficult to manage with how close you need to be, it often scares away the insect. I have been looking around and the tamron 90mm f2.8 vxd looks quite good but im not sure if theres something else that i should be looking at, like one of laowa ones, though i find having AF to be quite handy as i struggle with moving camera to focus technique.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I am just getting into macro photography with the sony 30mm f3.5 on my A6700, i have been having fun but i find that i get a lot of ruined shots with only a small handful being ok after taking quite a lot. I think part of it may be how i have set my camera up both with buttons and just general settings, i am new to both macro and photography on a "proper" camera so i have yet to fully familiarise myself with what all the settings mean, so i would be very grateful of any pointers.

my current settings are:

Manual

Raw

shutter speed varies depending on light but about 1/50 - 1/250

f11 - 18, i did originally have it at 3.5 ad the focus area was razor thin, its better now but im not sure if there is more i can do to improve.

iso - 100 - 400

white balance cloudy

Tracking - Expand Spot

continuous shooting - hi

metering multi, should it change this to spot?

ibis - on

Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

i got this after a lot of shots, its mostly random luck, rather then me being able to make it happen.

Hi

I am looking to print with the colorfab variosure tpu, would it be possible to change the settings to take advantage of the change in properties for different parts of the same print. How badly would the quality be effected by waiting for temp changes, would i have to keep the transition to between layers instead of during the same layer. The flow changes as the temp does, is it realistic to have different flows or will this add too much variance. I only have the one toolhead (for now).

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.