Low tech gun photography

I spend some time at the Canadian Gun Nutz site. I am disgusted with some of the photographs of the guns. Some guys are fantastic. Some pretty good. Most don't seem to know more than how to zoom and click. Once in a while I add to posts on how to take a decent picture. I'm not talking magazine cover pictures but decent well lit simple but attractive pictures.


One person had a pretty special gun and posted some pictures of it. On camera flash typically looks like crap for these kind of picture (actually most pictures). At some point he listened to someone and used another light source other than the on camera flash. I usually tell people to use natural light if possible (not direct sun light) and a tripod. Well back to the special gun. Like I said he turned off the on camera flash of his point & shoot camera. He used a lamp to light the gun. The following is one of the posted pictures.

Pretty bad but much better than some. At least its not badly out of focus. So I had to reply to his post. I wrote the following.