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I have often thought about doing a story for SSM about firearms photography but just like everythign else, there is no simple road map to getting professional results. My set-up has evolved over a couple of decades and continues to as I get farther into digital imaging. Here are some of the results.
The set-up for veriticaly holding the guns using a steel rod in th bore. There are many advantages to this system.

A verticle image shown horizontally.

An at the workkbench close-up.
I use a Nikon D100 and that wonderful Nikor 60mm micro lens Chuck mentioned, for most images.
Tungsten lighting (1500 watts, 4 lights) bounced into reflectors and back onto the subject. There are way too many tricks to post here, but with enough encouragemetn I might do a magazine story.
SDH

There's a great selection of "still life" photo books out there. Without exception, lighting is the the biggest part of these studies. Composition is another subject and should be at least as lively a discussion.

Steve, I would very much like to see an article written by you on photography. I believe many folks would benefit by it. I am light years ahead with my photography because of your help. MP

I would really benefit from a SDH's "How-To" article.
March ON!!

Steven,

An article would benefit many, many people. There is nothing quite like experience coupled with the ability to express it understandably.

Thanks again to everyone for the help. My camera is nothing fancy, don't even know if I can disable the flash on it. I'll have to dig the manual out to see. But, we're gonna play with it and see what we can do. I really want to be able to reproduce the figure that is in the buttstock wood on the A-grade in a photo. We'll see.

Stan

Thanks for the support, gentlemen. I'll put that notion in the hopper for a column or two on next years schedule.

Here's one of checkering in process with available light.
SDH