The Official Splashed Pot Showcase Thread of PCF! (8 Viewers)

[anstossfreak]

Where did you find these? They are beautiful.

It was a purchase in China from alibaba.com. I have seen these plaques in a promotional video from Standard Plaques and message the seller. Had to buy 100 plaques and I divided them as follows: 70x $1Ks & 30x & 5Ks.

 

[Nex]

Is there a proper way to take these photos? How do I get my camera to focus on all of the chips?

Depends on what options you have with whatever camera you have available to you. Photography is another rabbit hole you can dive very deep into.

Phone cameras usually are very restricted in the ways you can control what they do. Maybe not so much with a 4-figure phone, but compared to a dedicated camera still lacking. Mostly they use a depth sensor and then mangle the front-to-back-in-focus pic they snap to artificially blur the portions of the photo that are farther away from the lens, which usually looks notably different to real out-of-focus blur you get when taking photos with a sensor and lens combination that produce a very shallow depth of field when shot wide open*. There's no way around that to make the result look more realistic, this is nothing you can perfectly fake with postprocessing only. Can't defeat the laws of optics.

*If you own such a setup, the best tip I can give you is: Don't necessarily shoot with the largest aperture you can use. You want to have the chip stack sharp front to back (not only the frontmost part) and only then have focus blur creep in for the more distant parts of the image for good-looking results. If you have no control over or are limited with the aperture, but instead can zoom with your lens (or you have another lens with a longer focal length) then try to adjust the zoom and camera distance to the subject simultaneously. Longer focal length at same aperture results in shallower depth of field.